Have ideas for a Theme?

Submit your ideas to the planning committee by April 7th!

 

Choose a Scripture, Slogan, Theme music and T-shirt design!

 

The meeting will be April 7th, 7PM at Faith United in Tinley Park. Come vote or share your designs!

2011 Trip

We have a lot more information up and available for this year’s trip.

 

The dates will be: July 16-23rd

Note: Registration forms should be out shortly after the next planning meeting. Please contact your church or one of the planning committee heads for access to these forms.

 

Here is a newsletter detailing specifics about the trip.

 

God bless you all.

Planning Committee

The first planning committee meeting will take place on Monday, February 1 at 7PM. It will be held at Faith United in Tinley Park. If you need more information, please email Melissa Peterson or Mitch Huenecke.

Update [June 2009]

Trip Updates

So far the trip’s planning has gone well. We have completed the pre-trip and looked at a dozen sites for us to get involved in. We also have received registration from over 60 people, and 20+ people from the Kentucky area. These are both incredible blessings. 

We are having the Pre-Trip gathering tomorrow evening at 7PM at Lansing Presbyterian. Be there! Registration forms are due at this time. Contact one of the Planning Committee members or your church contact if this is a problem.

Other Updates: 

Doreen still needs to be kept in our prayers for healing and peace.

Daniel Sloane, one of the site hosts this past trip whom David Krueger worked for, has passed away over the past year. Continued prayers for his family and friends for their loss, but also prayers of thanksgiving for Daniel’s life and faith, as well as his ministry and the lives that he touched during the workweek.

Dan Vos [2008]

Surprisingly, it has been a month since my mission trip to Kentucky.  I didn’t want to write this testimonial until I had some time to look back and take in just what this trip meant to me.  Before I left I was questioning my motives for going:  Was I really doing this to serve the Lord, and not myself?  As the week went on and I physically worked in the sweltering heat I did not take time to thing about this.  I just kept on working until finally on Friday, as we finished up our work on Justine’s (our sitehost’s) house, I was given a chance to get to know her on a more personal level.  Justine mentioned to me that she noticed me reading my Bible outside and that she wanted to share a verse with me.  As she searched for the verse we talked about our beliefs and what it truly meant to consider yourself a Christian.  The verse she wanted to share with me was:

• 1 Peter 1:22, “Now that you have purified yourself by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart.

She wanted me to know that i was fulfilling what the Bible says for me to be doing, for me to be loving my fellow brothers and sisters from the heart.  Justine was telling us all week that we were the answer to her prayers and that we were the “angels” she had prayed for.  She deeply touched me with her words and i keep her in my prayers.

So, now a month later I look back at what this trip really meant to me.  We fixed Justine’s roof, but that is only a temporary thing.  The wood will rot, the shingles and tear will wear away, but the fellowship we spent with her will be eternal.

 

-Dan Vos, Lansing Presbyterian Church

Cheryl Huenecke [2008]

After 6 years of attending the Kentucky Mission Trip, I return again with such a fullness. Tired? Yes, physically – but energized spiritually and emotionally- my cup overflows. That is what feeds my tired body. Knowing lives have been touched and the difference for them is great.

As Dar and I walked with Justine, one of our hosts, to her shed (because she had frozen fruit bars in the freezer that she wanted to share with the crew on her roof), she said “sorry I talk so much but I have no one to talk to except my daughter and she’s young and busy.”  Her daughter is the caretaker for Justine’s father who is terminally Ill and lives in the trailer right above her on the mountain. Simply put a life touched by having someone to talk to, someone to listen (cuz you could not get a work in edge wise).

It is always so hard to put things into a nutshell when people ask “How was your Mission Trip, or how was your week?” We could go on and on for probably hours and will continue to talk about it for the next year until we begin talking about next year.

I want to take this opportunity to Thank all of you for your support. Many people are part of Kentucky and never set foot on the soil there, and they possibly could be more important than any of us that are actually there swinging hammers or talking to folks. Having my Mom here with Hollie provided the opportunity for me to go. Having financial and prayer support from so many in our church provides the materials and strength for all of us to go and do the work put before us.

Praise and Thanks Be to God

 

–Cheryl Huenecke, Hickory Hills Presbyterian

Kyle Zimmerman [2008]

This was one of my best trips of the four years I went because I got to know a lot more about what went on and because I told my dad that I wanted to do a roof and when he got back from the pre trip he said we were doing a roof during the week. My dad said I have proved myself. Our host Justine was impressed on how hard I was working. She said “I am not going to look at you as a kid, I am going to look at you as a man”

 

Kyle Zimmerman, Hickory Hills Presbyterian