Heat, humidity, and gnats – the three guarantees for a June in Florida.
Steve Schutt hopes that as Crosspoint Church’s annual service outreach, Mission Northwest, enters its 14th year, it will continue as the fourth constant for Niceville in June.
Schutt and other parent and adult volunteers will lead 275 children in 5-12 grades in service projects around the Florida Panhandle for the next three days.
“We [at Crosspoint] always talk about who we are for the next generation. And so if if we want to be pouring into the next generation, and helping them learn how to be servants, how to think of other people before themselves, how to realize that the world is not about them,” Schutt said, “It’s not about us as individuals, it’s about other people. That’s what we’re called to.”
The four-day event will help non-profits and do-gooders throughout the Florida Panhandle with student labor. The projects for this year’s mission include:
While doing the service is excellent, the service projects are not the point, the kids are. Crosspoint Youth Pastor Sam Viau believes these missions should begin a lifetime of commitment to serving others and empathy. “[When students] stain a fence, they are probably going to do an OK job. If we wanted it to be great, we’d go out there ourselves,” Viau said, “[The students] are going to see the start and finish of a project that they were a part of, and they are going to drive past it pretty regularly and see something they did for the community that impacted a family right now… It’s showing them what loving your neighbor can look like.”
Mission Northwest will kick off June 12 and wrap up on the 15th. You can register to help out here:
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