Additional Outreach

Youth Mission Trips

• 28 consecutive US trips
• Help repair homes for the poor and elderly

• Valley supports joint Families Moving Forward and PRISM sleep out
• Pledges support adult and youth participants

• Youth collect money for the food shelf on Super Bowl Sunday

• Sunday School children sent $450 last year to buy animals in third world countries

• Valley serves Fair Trade coffee on Sunday mornings and at all church events
• Members can buy Fair Trade coffee on Sunday mornings

• Annual catalog of alternative gifts.
• Purchasing gifts that benefit others helps put faith into practice
• Catalog provides a “wish list” from many of the local and international service groups, such as PRISM, Habitat for Humanity, Families Moving Forward, Heifer International, and Church World Service

• Program with mission to eradicate hunger and prevent starvation in children Strives to meet goal by preparing food packets developed by local nutrition scientists for 23¢ per serving
• Valley children and Youth volunteer to assemble food packets

• Meal delivery agency for elderly and homebound adults (also called “Meals on Wheels”)
• Valley volunteers deliver meals fourth Thursday of each month