Recent Mission Trips

Teams from the Kirk have spread God's love and Good News to the following locations.











Costa Rica Medical
This year a team of physicians, physicians assistants, registered nurses and lay people worked alongside the clinicians in the Carpio Clinic to support their efforts in the community. The free clinic is located in a well-established, squatter community. Team members had the opportunity to minister to many people in need of physical and spiritual healing.

Africa
While in Tanzania, the team worked with Sheila, ministering to the community around Nassa Theological College. The team also ministered to the orphaned girls at the Janada L Batchelor Foundation for Children in Kitongo building relationships, helping at the school. They also visited the Tanzania Children’s Rescue Center boys orphanage.

Goodland Academy, Hugo OK
Goodland Academy is a longstanding ministry of the Kirk that helps boys develop into stable productive Christian men. Each year a group of members from the Kirk visit Goodland over a weekend to encourage and build lasting relationships with these young people, and help with minor repairs to the property.

The Kirk’s annual Goodland Academy Mission trip was June 2-5, 2011.  The team was composed of Bob Alexander, Ted Candler, John Hamby, Erwin King, David Mitchell, Ed Nunnelle, Bob Persson, Walt Pettit, Don Schick, Kyle Travis and David Watts. The projects included putting a new sealing coat of paint on the swimming pool; replacing some rotting soffit on Bacon Hall; replacing roof shingles on two of the cottages that “mother nature” had seen fit to remove; building sets of storage shelving in the new Boy Scout storage building and scraping and painting the exterior doors and adjoining areas of Bacon Hall. 

Since approximately half of the boys were not at the Academy due to extended vacation with family and the remainder attending classes in the basement school due to the heat, there was not much chance for interaction. However during the pizza party on Friday and the cookout on Saturday, we did get to witness the appetite of growing young boys.

The highlight was Don Schick making three flavors of homemade ice cream for the cookout with the boys on Saturday night and watching it disappear much faster than it took for Don to “crank it out.” The Oreo cookie was an especially BIG hit and evaporated quickly.

Sunday the team, boys, and Goodland Staff attended Hugo Presbyterian Church.

Goodland Academy is the longest, continuously operating Boys Home in the US. It began 160+ years ago. It provides an on-campus two-family atmosphere for boys who come from all over the country, the boys are recommended by churches, various agencies as well as families. The boys are educated right on campus which emphasizes mastery of class work before proceeding to another level

For additional information on Goodland Academy go to goodland.org or contact David Dearinger, at 580-326-7568.

 

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