Summer Connect: 3 Days of Service and Fun

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We’re asking people to register no later than May 1st. If you need more time for recruitment than that, let us know — but we’d need firm numbers no later than late May/very early June so that we can let service sites know, make sure we have appropriate transportation, etc.
Cost: We’re making a suggested donation of $30/day per kid to cover food and the activity costs. If this is a barrier for your youth, let us know if you can cover them, OR talk to us and we can see where the three of us are on our budgets — we want this to be accessible.
Safe Church adults: We’d LOVE to have youth from any of your churches. If you end up with young people coming, please send a Safe Church adult with every 3 kids who you’re sending so we can make sure we have enough adult hands on deck.
Plan for the 3 days: Here is our plan for the 3 days (a few details for Monday being hashed out, but mostly we know the plan!)

Monday, July 20th
• Arrive at St. Clement’s at 9am
• Leave St. Clement’s at 9:30am, go to EITHER Department of Indian Works OR St. Christopher’s
• 10am to 12pm – Work at Department of Indian Works food shelf or St. Christopher’s Giving Garden (plus maybe an in-house something at St. Christopher’s)
◦ Lunch wherever we serve
• 12 to 1pm – Lunch
• 1pm to 4:30pm – Como Pool is open starting at noon
◦ $7/person for group
◦ Bring money for a snack
• Bad weather option:
◦ Sky Zone ($24/per person)
• Back to St. Clement’s at 4:45pm, pickup at 5pm

Tuesday, July 21st (Good Courage Farm) 
• Arrive at St. Clement’s at 9am
• Leave St. Clement’s at 9:15am
• At Good Courage ~10:30am to ~2:30pm
◦ Gather and hospitality
◦ Land acknowledgement (a confession and honoring those who care for the land)
◦ Teach us a song
◦ Lectio divina on a passage (maybe the garden where the owner wants to cut down the tree and the gardener says, let’s give it one more year. . . )
◦ Work for an hour and a half.
◦ Worship in the Silo Chapel
◦ Have lunch/hang with the animals/ play games
• On the way home, ice cream stop for ~1 hour
• Arrive back at St. Clement’s for 5pm pickup

Wednesday, July 22nd (Bus Day!)
• Arrive at St. Clement’s at 9am
• Leave St. Clement’s at 9:30am, take the bus to First Nations Kitchen
• ~10:30am – First Nations Kitchen – various gardening jobs, cleaning, maintenance type jobs
• 12pm to 1:30pm – Take the bus to lunch at Midtown Global Market (everyone gets $15 to spend, bring any extra if you’d want to spend more than that)
• 1:30pm to 4pm – Take the bus to Walker Sculpture Garden to look at sculptures and play games in the park
• ~4pm, bus back to St. Clement’s
• OPTIONAL: Close with Pizza Church at St. Clement’s (with families) at 5:30pm