EL SALVADOR trip cost: $1700 Serving with Sarah and Jorge Solorzano in El Salvador means partnering with their local church and helping them evangelize and disciple children, youth, and families in Guayabo and San Salvador. Each team will be involved in different areas including serving the poor at the Children’s Center, doing evangelistic outreaches to college students, or teaching seminars to local church leaders. Come be a part of this impactful ministry in El Salvador on one of four trips: • • • •
July 5 - 13 Campus Outreach, led by Joel Torres July 12 - 20 Children’s Center, led by Josh Shirlen July 19 - 27 Children’s Center and teaching church leaders, led by Manuel Baerga November 8 - 16 Children’s Center, led by Steve & Janice Onken
POLAND trip cost: $3,000 Are you friendly, outgoing, helpful, caring, prayerful, humble, or servant-minded? International Messengers provides the opportunity to share the gospel in simple, down-to-earth terms through their English-teaching camps. These camps attract children, youth, and families from all around Poland. The camp is a one week family camp filled with numerous activities involving fun, conversations, English lessons and relationship building. A great opportunity for individuals and families alike to serve abroad; you will be trained appropriately, so don’t worry if you’ve never taught English as a second language before. Come join one (or both!) of the two teams: • •
July 9 - 21 English Teaching Camp, led by Bill Smith July 17 - 28 English Teaching Camp, led by Michelle Sohl and Trevin Hoekzema
UGANDA trip cost: $3,200 Come to Uganda to minister to members of the Precious Souls Support Group made up of Ugandans who are infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. We will also be supporting a local church plant, investigating the development of a medical clinic in an existing building on the Mission Home property and continuing to build on the relationships that started back in 2006. Over the last 7 years we have seen many miraculous recoveries once the sick were embraced by the support group and encouraged/ enabled to seek medical care. Adults and college age welcome: •
September (TBD) Community Outreach, led by Angela Essamuah
PROCESS FOR APPLYING 1. Pray that God would help you decide where to Make the Trade. 2. Decide which opportunity is best for you to serve abroad in His name. 3. Go on a trip by typing in www.bayareacc.org/stm and clicking on “GO.”
LOCAL OUTREACH Winter Relief Bay Area will be partnering with the Arundel House of Hope to host between 25-30 homeless men and women overnight the week of March 10th-17th. We will house our guests in the auditorium each night while utilizing the Bay Cafe for meals, games, and entertainment. There are 5 ways/areas you can serve: 1. Meals - Serve by providing and preparing breakfast or dinner each day (30 for breakfast and 50 for dinner) including all the necessary plates, cups, etc, serving the meal and actually having dinner with our guests. 2. Transportation (2-4 Drivers) - Serve by shuttling our guests from the Lighthouse shelter downtown to BACC for the evening and back to the shelter the following morning after breakfast. 3. Hospitality - Serve by ministering and engaging with our guests through everything from hosting a game night, movie night, Bible study, etc. 4. Volunteering - Serve by providing things like “to go toiletries” for their day or helping do their laundry in the evening or assisting with showering, etc. We are open to other ideas as well, like medical or dental services, etc. 5. Overnight/Security - Serve by staying with our guests overnight here at 884 and being available for any help they may need throughout the overnight hours. If you have any questions or would like to help in any of the areas mentioned above, please feel free to contact deb. shipley@bayareacc.org or brian.hopper@bayareacc.org for more info. Local Serving Opportunities Are you wanting to get you and/or your family involved with serving locally? Email Trevin at trevin.hoekzema@bayareacc. org to start the conversation. There are many organizations in the Annapolis area that could use assistance, we’d love to connect you with them. BACC Annual Golf Tournament BACC is hosting their annual golf tournament at Queenstown Harbor Golf Course on Friday, August 8, 2014 to support the homeless of Annapolis. The tournament committee is looking for volunteers to help make this year’s tournament a smashing success. Please contact Art Prack at aprack@gmail. com or 410-349-1157 for more information.
CONNECTING MINISTRY DISCOVER BAY AREA New to church? Come discover what Bay Area is about on March 2nd in the Bay Cafe from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. to learn more about our history, vision, mission, and how you can get plugged in. A light lunch is included. No RSVP necessary but encouraged. Email jocelyn.rimbey@bayareacc.org for more information. NAVIGATE Embrace your faith by joining us for Navigate [Discipleship) on March 22nd. Spend a morning with Greg, Pat, and Brian as you learn how to better read the Word, how to pray like Jesus prayed, and how to live in missional community with other believers. To learn more email Jocelyn at jocelyn.rimbey@ bayareacc.org