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TAP – Teens Acting for Peace
TAP is a dynamic, groundbreaking program that teaches teens how to put the skills and values of peacemaking and conflict resolution into proactive throughout their daily lives, and prepares them to be peace educators with younger children. TAP brings the principles of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount to life in ways that work. Workshops are held that “Tap” the creativity and energy of young people to help build peaceful schools, communities, and a more peaceful world.
TAP News
2009 Kids Peace Camp – July 20 – 24, 2009
July 20th through the July 24th was an exciting week at St. Andrew’s UCC. The members of Teens Acting for Peace (TAP) put together a five day camp that taught kids in grades 1 – 5 about peace.
Peace Camp was a big hit. We had 28 kids that took part in this new experience. Seven kids were from our church with the rest coming from the community. Read more…
30 Hour Famine
30 Hour Famine
is an international youth movement to fight hunger. It brings our senior youth closer together and to God, feeds hungry children, and changes our world forever. Each year they fast for thirty hours while working on a mission project and raise funds to help feed and care for children around the world. By sacrificing and serving others, they are learning to think outside themselves and see the world as Christ sees it.
Urban Work Camps
The Senior Youth Fellowship attended the Urban Work Camp in 2007 and hope to go again in the near future for a weekend experience in the heart of the city. Our young people had the opportunity to learn the joy and rewards of hands-on work in agencies that are making a difference in Philadelphia. A very important part of the experience is sleeping on the floor in Old First Church’s Fellowship Hall as the homeless men do in the winter. It was a great experience, along with a lot of fun.
Urban Cupboard at Old First Reformed Church of Philadelphia
St. Andrews’s Senior Youth travel to Old First every 6-8 weeks to volunteer on Saturday morning from 9:30 – 11:30 am to provide food, clothing and toiletries to approximately 30 individuals in our Philadelphia community. The cupboard functions as “free store”, offering as much dignity and choice as possible given the availability of donations from week to week. The youth take donations for the Cupboard, especially men’s clothing and ready-to-eat non-perishable foods (pop-top cans are best).
