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DELAWARE WORK CAMP VOLUNTEERS:    

  Delaware Work Camp applications will be available on
March 29 at 3 pm @ Babe’s Restaurant & Grill in Utica, NY.  

Applications are also in the Church’s website.  

All new and prior youth, parents and leaders are welcome.
 If you have any questions, contact Bill Butler, 363-3144 or Trish Vrooman, 363-2611.  

Thank you!

Other DWC dates to remember are  -

April 30  -   due date for youth applications
   May  3   -  Leader meeting at 3 pm @ Mt. Vernon Presbyterian Church
 June 14  -   Meeting for all youth, leaders and parents at 2 pm, with a Leader meeting following


Delaware Work Camp trip is July 5 – 11.  

  

 

Delaware Workcamp - previous trips . . . 

The fourth and final workday of the 2010 Delaware Workcamp again took place under God's sunny skies. Crews finished up a roof, some flooring, some windows and doors and did some painting. Another crew helped our host Church ready their just-renovated sanctuary for a hastily scheduled funeral--cleaning up construction debris, vacuuming, dusting, and transforming what had been a construction site into a sanctuary that was ready to again be a worship space!

In the evening we went to the fishing pier for the traditional pizza picnic, took a stroll on the pier and gathered for worship on the beach. In the previous night's worship, we wrote on construction paper hearts what we wanted God to take away from us (from Ps. 51 - "Create in me a clean heart, O God."), and tonight we burned those hearts in a small bonfire on the beach. Nine of our senior workcampers read Psalm 8, and we celebrated the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper with Ginny Pendelton and Gary Onyan serving as elders. I told the vision of the New Heaven and New Earth from the Revelation to John as we remembered together the theme of the week---"A New Creation."

Tomorrow is beach day! We attend a barbecue luncheon put on for us by the agency that coordinates our work here, then swim, then head to the famous boardwalk on Rehoboth Beach for amusements, shopping, strolling and dinner out.

It is hard to believe how fast this week has gone, and we give thanks to God for the work that's been done, the friendships that have been made, the fun we've had, and the New Creation that is already breaking into our lives and the lives of those who we have served here in Christ's name.

 
First Presbyterian Church
304 Broad Street | Oneida, NY 13421 | PH: (315) 363-7590

Office Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 12:30pm