What does a typical Church Missions day look like?
As a ministry of your Church, your schedule on a Church Mission program will be very busy. Time for reflection and spiritual enhancement punctuates days of construction and giving to others.
A typical day's activities would divide the participants into three activity groups. The first group would conduct environment improvements through construction, and maintenance-repair projects. All projects focus on direct benefits to the orphanage and children such as playgrounds, computer labs and study areas. Genesis has a roster of volunteer and paid contractors and craftsman that oversee our construction projects.
- Hardscape & landscape
- Facilities for learning
- Infrastructure upgrades
- Supervised craftsmanship
- Immediate sense of accomplishment
The second group focuses on younger children at the program site. The activities incorporate literacy-based learning with "hands-on" education in new and innovative ways. English vocabulary and computers, other academic and creative disciplines, and practical skills are incorporated. Local teachers, university students, caregivers, and other community volunteers facilitate these programs.
- Age appropriate & creative
- Modular flexibility
- Engages multiple senses
- Makes learning exciting & fun
- Spiritual enhancements
The third group works with older children to move them beyond the orphanage experience and come face to face with the greater world. These are off-site activities (such as rock climbing, snorkeling, theatrical plays, etc.) that explore the cultural and natural world and broaden their lives.
Many children have very limited experience outside the orphanage. As they help meet responsibilities on the adventures they participate in, they learn about themselves and how to work within a group. They learn to share, respect themselves and others, grow and strengthen self-confidence, and care about the physical world they live in. The adventures create new and different modes of learning other than only the classroom settings that the vast majority experience.
- Challenge physical and intellectual growth
- Encounter real-world environments
- Build trust & responsibility
- Inspire dreams for their future
- Increase spiritual maturity
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