University Youth Service Program: Mission Project Report

This report details a Christian community youth service program, outlining its mission to engage youth in service and foster faith. The program involves various activities, including preparing Christmas boxes for children, creating care packages for church members in college, distributing blankets ...Read More

Running head: COMMUNITY SERVICE
Youth Service Program.
Name of the Student.
Name of the University.
Author note.

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Introduction
The work done by one person or group of person or specific community to benefit
others are known as community service. It is done often into the nearby areas where the doer
resides and his or her own community harvests benefits of the work done. No one gets paid
for doing any sort of community service but food or tiny gifts such as t-shirt or chocolates are
given sometimes to the volunteers (Harp, Scherer and Allen, 2017.) The main aim of holding
community services are to help a community people in need, teach them something, and so
on. These kind of services are often organized via a group of localities in places like
nonprofit organization, school, and holy places of worship. Some students also require to
participate in community service programs and complete it as an integral part of education
(Bauer, Kniffin and Priest, 2015.) and Hedin, 20In this paper, a Christian community youth
program service will be discussed where the objective is to undergo a project of service and
mission. Many lessons will be learned that are important when students will be participating
in this mission work. This will help them to grow faith I themselves and at the same time help
others that is a very powerful lesson to be learned.
Discussion
The mission project will include different sort of activities for the volunteers to take
place. This will not only help the community but also the volunteers themselves (Roso,
2019.) The volunteers are required to assemble every Sunday after the prayer at school’s
church and perform their activities with respective teams. The activities to be performed are
discussed below:
 “Operation Christmas Boxes”: A box will be prepared here containing Christmas
bells, balls, stars, a small Santa Claus doll, and umbrella sticks. The box will be

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wrapped with gift wrapping paper with a bow and individual names written on them.
This will be given mostly to the children and teenagers aging between 5 to 15.
 Care Packages for Church members in College: This will somewhat like the
previous back but with different contents. The packages will include a notebook, pen,
candles, rosary and small copy of bibles.
 Blankets for children in Hospital: This will include distributing already sewed
blankets to the children who are admitted in hospitals.
 Church Clean Up: This will include cleaning of the church every Saturday by any
five member of respective teams.
 Food Bank Collection: This will include collecting food from every house in the
locality and bringing food and snacks from the respective house of volunteers of this
community service as well (Maxwell, 2018.)
 Blessing Bag: This will include a bag filled with chocolate, stationary, rosary, and
gift items like cricket bat, Barbie dolls, toy cars, hair clips, and so on for the children.
Conclusion
Therefore, it is concluded from the above discussion the activities, which will be performed
in the youth community service program. The main target audience for this mission project is
the children, teenagers and members of the church. The aim is to help the people and spread
joy of Christmas to everyone celebrating it together.

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References
Bauer, T., Kniffin, L.E. and Priest, K.L., 2015. The Future of Service-Learning and
Community Engagement: Asset-Based Approaches and Student Learning in First-
Year Courses. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 22(1), pp.89-92.
Harp, E.R., Scherer, L.L. and Allen, J.A., 2017. Volunteer engagement and retention: Their
relationship to community service self-efficacy. Nonprofit and voluntary sector
quarterly, 46(2), pp.442-458.
Maxwell, I., 2018. Are we doing young people a service or disservice? And does local church
youth ministry work?: A response to Pam Mellstrom. Theology in Scotland.
Roso, C.G., 2019. Faith and Learning in Action: Christian Faith and Service-Learning in a
Graduate-Level Blended Classroom. Christian Higher Education, 18(4), pp.316-331.