Rush Hill Community Church is hosting between 250 to 300 high school students and adult helpers during a mission trip to help improve homes and public areas in the greater Mexico community during the …
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Rush Hill Community Church is hosting between 250 to 300 high school students and adult helpers during a mission trip to help improve homes and public areas in the greater Mexico community during the last week of July.
Church co-pastor Sam Hobbs said that the mission agency Group Mission Trips, based in Fort Collins, Colo., is bringing students from across the nation to a work camp to assist with projects in the area from July 21-27.
Chuck Sommer, manager of LaCrosse Lumber in Mexico and a member of the church’s board, said Rush Hill members are hosting and helping fund some 44 projects in the area, ranging from constructing handicapped ramps and decks to house painting, weatherization, property clean ups, interior painting and other small repairs for those people who cannot afford the improvements.
“Our church has dedicated more than $40,000 in materials alone, not to mention all the extras like food, lodging, activities and activities,” he said.
Hobbs said that hosting the students is a communitywide undertaking. The visitor will be based at Mexico High School, making use of classrooms and the gym as sleeping quarters and taking most meals in the school cafeteria. He added that school cafeteria staff have been hired to prepare three meals a day for the students while they are in Mexico.
Moreover, most of the nearly 80 to 100 people who regularly attend Rush Hill, a non-denominational congregation that meets at 222 Church St. in Rush Hill, have committed to assisting the students during their weeklong stay in the area.
Sommer said that area residents who are requesting assistance submitted applications earlier this year. Information was distributed around the Mexico area to spread word of the mission outreach. The Group Missions Trips organization reviewed the applications and chose the projects to support during the July visit.
Hobbs says the mission trip is an opportunity for his church members to put Bible gospel from the New Testament into action to improve the lives of those in need around the Mexico community.
“This is about spreading the gospel by serving people,” he said.
