PCD Youth Mission Trip
Showing God's love in the service to others.
Our Mission trip is designed to bring our youth community together by showing God’s love through service to others. We begin building our relationships with each other in three ways: fun fellowship events, like going bowling, pizza parties and movie nights; fundraising activities to help defray our cost, like Super Bowl Sunday pizzas, Shrove Tuesday pancake dinner, bake sales and our annual car wash; and local service to others, like participating in Common Cathedral’s City Reach program, sorting food at the Interfaith Council food drive, and helping at our church’s big events, like the Harvest Homecoming and the Christmas Pageant.
Our Youth Mission trip takes place the last week of June. For the past three years, we have gone to Farmington, Maine and worked through Mission at the Eastward (M.A.T.E.) to help repair homes that are in dire need. We have put vinyl siding on a house, completely gutted and re-done bathrooms, built porches, and painted both interiors and exteriors.
Just as important, if not more so, are the relationships we have developed with the homeowners while we’re working. They are immensely appreciative of our help. Many are surprised that the kids would give up a week of their summers to help them. MATE’s motto is “reaching the last house on the last road.” We take pride knowing that we are doing our part to help the most vulnerable and forgotten in our society.
For a fun view of 2024’s Mission Trip, check out this video:
One thing is for sure, it’s always a life changing and rewarding experience for both youth and chaperones. The camaraderie, the hard work, and the acquiring of new skills bring epiphanies around inner strength and joy that come from serving others. If you ask any past participants about the trip, there is one particular sentiment that seems to resonate among all – the amazement at how people can rise from tragedy and find happiness and love in community.
We are enormously grateful to our supportive congregation – both financially and emotionally, as well as the Duxbury Interfaith Council who make it possible for some kids to join the trip where it would otherwise be cost prohibitive. It is our goal to include all who wish to join in on the trip. Money should never stop anyone from participating in our trips.
Thank you to the entire Pilgrim Church of Duxbury community for supporting our efforts. We couldn’t do it without you.
2023 Youth Mission to Farmington, ME
For the second year in a row, our Youth Mission Trip team headed to Farmington – a rural community in the western mountains of Maine – to work with Mission at the Eastward (M.A.T.E.)
2022 Youth Mission to Farmington, ME
“No person or place is too small for God. See our places and our people as God sees them,” Dan Flint of M.A.T.E. paraphrasing Stephen Witmer’s A Big Gospel in Small Places. That is indeed what our 19 youth and 3 chaperones found during our 2022 Youth Mission Trip to Farmington, Maine through Mission at the Eastward (M.A.T.E.). Download 2022 Newsletter to Learn More.
