New Mission Begins Sunday, October 25, 2009

Church of the Shepherd (COS) mission team "Shepherds of Hope" is off again following God's call to serve one another. This time things will be a bit different. Past missions included several days of travel because our missions were in Mexico or Mississippi. We are all from St. Peters (near St. Louis) Missouri. This time our mission is less than 50 miles from our COS campus. We are going to Lincoln County, Missouri to do home repairs on a home used for transitional housing. We understand the house has some damaged exterior siding and requires some painting. We are also open to do other home repairs based upon the needs of the community as they are presented to us. We are intentionally trying to satisfy the needs of those who want to serve in mission, but can not travel long distances because of work and family obligations. Our commitment is to also preserve their weekends. Therefore, we will not depart until late Sunday evening and return Friday afternoon. Some on our team will join us on Monday and others will leave for a day and come back to finish up. We have also heard from folks who are willing to do mission work if the project were closer to home and in or near our community. Understanding this, our goal with this mission is to satisfy these needs; flexibility and serving locally. Above is a picture of the Makin Memorial United Methodist Church in Winfield, Missouri. The house we will work on is next to this church. Our home base during the mission will be the Asbury United Methodist Church near Foley, Missouri. We will prepare our own breakfast and lunch. The Asbury Church will prepare our dinner each evening. We will sleep on cots in their Life Center. Rev. Karla Cunningham (left) is the pastor at the Asbury and Makin Memorial Church. This picture was taken inside the Life Center at the Asbury Church. Nice digs for a mission. Thanks Google Earth for the "street view" images.