Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Outreach events for youth and young adults

"Stop Hunger Now" event for youth 
Sunday, October 7, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Eastern Shore Chapel, Virginia Beach
All youth and their advisors are invited to join us for a special Stop Hunger Now meal-packing event. Stop Hunger Now is an international hunger relief organization that coordinates the distribution of food and other life-saving aid around the world.  At our event, we will assemble more than 10,000 highly nutritious meals to be used in crisis situations and in school feeding programs in developing countries.  The event will conclude with a celebratory Eucharist.

Please register your group, so we know how many people will attend. Click here for online registration. Snacks will be offered for participants. There is no registration fee for groups, but you are encouraged to bring donations with you for Stop Hunger Now. If you have questions, please contact Mary Lou Crifasi, Convocation Youth Director, at mcrifasi@easternshorechapel.org or Ashley Scruggs, Youth Missioner, at ascruggs@diosova.org. This event is co-sponsored by Convocation II Youth Ministries and the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia. Click here for an event flyer

"Play It Forward" outreach project for youth and young adults
Youth and young adults from Virginia Beach are invited to team with St. Aidan's, Virginia Beach, to build a playground  for a young child with cancer.  The building will begin on the evening of October 19 and be completed the morning/afternoon of October 20. This project is being coordinated through Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters and Roc Solid Foundations, a local organization that builds custom play sets for pediatric cancer patients. (www.rocsolidfoundation.org) We are looking for at least 25 volunteers to help with this. Specific details are still being worked out but save the dates. Contact Brian Collins (briangcollins@me.com) for more information.