Mission Work in the South Region of the Diocese of North Carolina

Episcopal Outreach Camp
                       
For the eleventh straight year, middle school students from several Charlotte-area Episcopal Churches gathered for a four-day local outreach camp.  Participating churches included St. Peter’s, St. Martin’s, Holy Comforter, Christ Church, St. Patrick’s, Mooresville, and Trinity, Statesville.  Read more

 Christ Church, Charlotte sent two teams of youth and adults to work on the Diocesan House in San Jose, Costa Rica in July 2009.  The missioners plastered, sanded, primed and painted walls, scraped mildew and paint, planted gardens, played with kids at Hogar Escuela, sang songs, danced salsa, worshiped together, made friends and memories to last a lifetime. Costa Rica is one of our diocesan companion dioceses.  Lauren  Robbins

Saint Mark’s, Huntersville sent thirteen youth to Asheville, NC, the week of July 19, to work with the Timothy Project.  "Through this project we were assigned work at the Veterans Restoration and Inn.  This ministry is an outreach of the Asheville/Buncombe County Christian Ministry."  Amy Sparks   Read more

Saint John's, Charlotte sent 17 senior high youth and 5 adults to conduct Vacation Bible School and to do continuing work (plastering, painting, etc.) at the Diocesan House in Costa Rica.  Ten senior high youth participated in a three-day, two-night lock-in.  They spent two days doing painting, demolition,  and yard work at Alexander Youth Network (a facility for kids with behavioral and emotional challenges), and then one day doing in-reach at St. John’s. Middle School Mission – 14 youth and 3 adults traveled to Erie, Pennsylvania to do home repairs for the poor and elderly as part of a Group Workcamp.  Work included painting houses (interior and exterior), building decks and wheelchair ramps, and other small home repairs.