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Kentucky 2:10!! |
41 Minnesota Youth and Adults are making the 14 hour drive to Zoe, Kentucky to work with Appalachian Ministries! Leaving Saturday, July 24th, the group will spend a week challenging themselves while teaching others about the Love of God and all He has to offer! We will be fixing up houses, cleaning up yards-and doing just about any work that is possible doing!Please keep the St. Philip's youth and families in your prayers as we send ourselves to the Appalachian Mountains to experience the beauty and help this place needs! |
"For we are what He has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before hand to be our way of life."
-Ephesians 2:10 | | THE BUS IS LEAVING ST. PHILIP'S 9 AM THIS SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 24th. Please arrive early to help pack the bus (after 8:30). Check the packing list, and don't forget extra snacks for your leaders!! CAN'T WAIT! |
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THANK YOU!! |
Thank YOU for your help!! |
THANK YOU so much to the families, parents, congregation and community members that support the youth of St. Philip's!! From Climbing a Mountain to the yearly Plant Sale-we wouldn't be on this great experience without you!! | |
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Packing List |
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Click here to download a copy of our packing list. Don't forget a Water Bottle and Positive Attitude! |
size:120.39 K
| | | Permission Slips | You need TWO permission slips handed in to get on the bus Saturday morning.
1) Green Copy-Cedar Ridge Camp
2) Yellow-St. Philip's Behavior Agreement
Please look through, have your parents sign, and hand in as soon as possible.
Thank You! | |
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WHERE are we going?? |
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We are heading 75 miles outside Lexington, Kentucky to the small town of Zoe. Located next to the Natural Bridge State Park, Zoe is a breathtaking area filled with mountains and beauty. The Appalachian Mountain range holds much beauty, and even more poverty.
Kentucky has the most counties in the Appalachian region that are in distress, the third highest level of poverty in the country! Read below to learn more about poverty of the Appalachia region. | |
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WHO are we helping? |
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We will be working with Appalachian Ministries, who works to help children of the area who are born into destructive poverty. Appalachian Ministries works with these children to help them stay drug free and in school, and have lead many to graduation! They supply these many children and their families with clothing, supplies, and food throughout the year-along with Christmas gifts and holiday meals. These children are taught about the Love of God and how precious they are in God's Kingdom. It is just a small area within a great scheme of poverty prevalent in the Appalachian Mountains-but a great area to bring our good works and love. |
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Lee County, where Appalachian Ministries is building the Lodge, has a 34.9% poverty rate as of December 2008 (Kentucky State Data Center). The states with the most distressed counties are : Kentucky, 35 distressed counties
West Virginia with 21 distressed counties
Mississippi with 12,
Tennessee, 8
Ohio, 6
Alabama, 5
Virginia, 3
North Carolina, 1 |
Appalachia is a region of stark contrasts, some would say, of paradox: While this region of the United States designated as Appalachia comprises some of the most beautiful land & richest natural resources in the nation, it also has the greatest poverty. Over 91 of the 410 counties within this region are designated by the The Appalachian Regional Commission as economically distressed. Distressed counties are defined as ones where poverty and unemployment rates are at least 150 percent of the national averages and where per capita market incomes that are no more than two-thirds of the national average. Counties are also considered distressed if they have poverty rates that are at least twice the national average and they qualify on either the unemployment or income indicator. | | | Go To Page: 1 [2] |
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