What: We are participating with the Gleaners. The North Okanagan Valley Gleaners is an organization that says it's “serving God by serving the poor”. We will be participating in their plant processing and prepping vegetables that go into a soup mix that is shipped around the world to help in relief and aid. They have had impact in over 50 countries. We will be camping at their plant and working in the mornings in the prepping plant. Since we are headed to the Vernon area we have reached out to missionaries Byron and Danielle Sayer whom we support as a church to partner with us. We are excited in the afternoons to partner with their indigenous students to serve in their local setting blessing their ministries. Of course we plan on having some fun as well.
Where: Vernon
Why: Matthew 25:40 - "Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these, you did for me." We want to stretch ourselves out of our routine and depend on God to stretch us and teach us as we live out his call to bless the world and share the gospel through service and support. We want students to build community with one another, to be stretched out of their comfort zone and to have to seek Jesus daily to draw us closer.