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. In 2026, we went to Rhode Island to learn about and help the Slatersville Congregational Church community. In 2025, we went through Youthworks to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina to help with flood repair.
No matter where we go, we grow in love and understanding of each other and of the people we serve. In our evening discussions, when reflecting on the day, we share moments when we saw God in action. The observations vary from noticing someone’s smile when our group arrived to help, to noticing how people’s entire outlooks on humanity changed when our kids committed a week in service to their needs. As the motto on our 2026 Mission Trip t-shirt stated, we believe we are “BRINGING HOPE.” In so doing, our own hearts grow in understanding of what it means to “be the hands and feet of Jesus.”
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.
2024 Mission Trip to Farmington
From 2021-2024, we went to Farmington, Maine and worked through Mission at the Eastward (M.A.T.E.) to help repair homes that are in dire need.
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.
