Our Genesis middle schoolers participate in a variety of mission programs throughout the year.  On Start-up Sunday, September 9, 2007, Genesis held a bake sale during the fellowship and coffee hour, raising money to be used for Scovia Twongirwe, our child from Uganda sponsored through Compassion International, as well as various other mission projects throughout the year.

Genesis members participated in a mission project cleaning up the church grounds and enhancing the preschool on August 14, 2007.  They provided their own yard waste bags, garden gloves, and trowels and came to church dressed in old clothes ready to work.  Afterwards they enjoyed pizza and “gutter” banana splits.

Monica Moore, Amy Smith, Danny Nubie, and Curt Gravit worked on weeding on the east side of the church, along with our 8th grade Sunday school teacher, Jerry Meyer, helping to get the church area spruced up before our September Start-up Sunday.

In the background you can see the work being done on our the Rotunda Concrete project.  The concrete steps and walkways around the Rotunda had been cracking and collapsing, and the foundations of the railings along those steps were becoming exposed and weakened.  We had the concrete and railing work at the entrances of the Rotunda removed and rebuilt, with experts helping us determine the best structural changes to make sure that this would not happen again.  The project was completed in August 2007.

Monica Moore and Amy Smith also worked on fixing things up for the preschool.  In the photo on the right they are finishing painting a table for the preschoolers.