Attention Youth Leaders
1 - People throughout the flooded region are in desperate need of assistance in cleaning up, tearing out, and removing of destroyed items
PLUS
1 - Hundreds of teenagers 15 and older are bored to tears in these few weeks before school starts.
EQUALS
2 needs met with one action!
Youth Ministers
Coaches
Civic Teachers
Scout Leaders
Parents
You need to push the children into action. Once they start, they will be changed forever by helping people in their own community rebuild their lives. Just look at the July 29 article in the Press and Sun Bulletin reagrding the BOCES students helping out:
http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060729/NEWS01/607290323/1006
Or the Twin Orchards Baptist Church which went out the day after the rains stopped to assist. Or the Vestal Lacrosse Teams assisting their coach in cleaning up his house.
There are still so many people in need. This work takes a YEAR to complete - generally longer. A man in West Corners has NO help in cleaning up his home because no communication occurred in his very own church. Everyone thought he was being helped, so they all went to help others. Meanwhile, he's trying to clean up his home AND business.
A woman in Conklin lost her home - it's condemned, and yet she still worked to get the postal food drive going for local food pantries. And yet, no one has asked her if she needs any assistance.
You are needed. And you are needed now.
Make up teams of no more than 8 kids per adult. Set up schedules to work 2-3 days per week at any given site, here in Broome, or in Chenango, Delaware, Susquehanna or Tioga Counties. Chenango and Delaware are particularly hard up because the flash flooding continues to occur with all the thunder storms, and they don't have enough of a population that wasn't affected by the flooding to recover quickly.
Make a vacation bible school for the teens in the form of acting on Christ's word.
Make 2 practices a week into work parties and have them emulate the NFL by doing charitable work OUTSIDE of sports.
Take what you teach in your Scout Troops and put it into action.
Show what civic's class is really all about.
And finally, show your children what being an American and being a neighbor is all about.
PLUS
1 - Hundreds of teenagers 15 and older are bored to tears in these few weeks before school starts.
EQUALS
2 needs met with one action!
Youth Ministers
Coaches
Civic Teachers
Scout Leaders
Parents
You need to push the children into action. Once they start, they will be changed forever by helping people in their own community rebuild their lives. Just look at the July 29 article in the Press and Sun Bulletin reagrding the BOCES students helping out:
http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060729/NEWS01/607290323/1006
Or the Twin Orchards Baptist Church which went out the day after the rains stopped to assist. Or the Vestal Lacrosse Teams assisting their coach in cleaning up his house.
There are still so many people in need. This work takes a YEAR to complete - generally longer. A man in West Corners has NO help in cleaning up his home because no communication occurred in his very own church. Everyone thought he was being helped, so they all went to help others. Meanwhile, he's trying to clean up his home AND business.
A woman in Conklin lost her home - it's condemned, and yet she still worked to get the postal food drive going for local food pantries. And yet, no one has asked her if she needs any assistance.
You are needed. And you are needed now.
Make up teams of no more than 8 kids per adult. Set up schedules to work 2-3 days per week at any given site, here in Broome, or in Chenango, Delaware, Susquehanna or Tioga Counties. Chenango and Delaware are particularly hard up because the flash flooding continues to occur with all the thunder storms, and they don't have enough of a population that wasn't affected by the flooding to recover quickly.
Make a vacation bible school for the teens in the form of acting on Christ's word.
Make 2 practices a week into work parties and have them emulate the NFL by doing charitable work OUTSIDE of sports.
Take what you teach in your Scout Troops and put it into action.
Show what civic's class is really all about.
And finally, show your children what being an American and being a neighbor is all about.
posted by Leslie at 7/29/2006 06:56:00 PM
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