High school and middle school students from Country & Town Baptist Church in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, went on a mission trip in early late July and early August to Harrisburg, where they did landscape beautification at a widow’s home (including building a new shed and fence!) and assisted with food pantry organization, food distribution and painting and updating the Grace House, a ministry center in the Hall Manor housing development.

Check out the details provided by Jacob Shetron, the church’s youth pastor:

High School Group: July 25 – August 1

We Started our mission project with assisting a widow with her back yard. We removed her old fence, kennel and shed. We also hired a gentleman, Eddie, to work with us by hauling everything to the Incinerator. Once we cleared everything out we prepped the ground to build a new shed and begin putting in a new fence. Over all the project took us about 2.5 days. Our other project site was at the Grace House in partnership with Covenant Community Church. It was there we assisted with unloading and storing food drop offs, assist in delivering lunches to children in the Hall Manner area, put together wire shelving in one of the rooms. We scraped and repainted the front porch. We also tore out a second floor kitchen cabinets sink and stove and put up storage shelving in place for a more efficient dry goods storage room. We spent time cleaning up the outside of the property and picked trash up in the local area and pressure washed the vinyl siding of the building. The team also participated in the Saturday morning food distribution and a prayer walk around Hall Manor.

Junior High Group: August 13-16

The group assisted with unloading food stuff deliveries. They put together additional shelving in the second floor dry goods room and organized items by kind. We installed an ADA compliant handrail on the one porch entrance to bring that entrance up to code and patched the steps so it would not be a tripping hazard. This will allow clients to enter in this entrance during colder weather to an indoor food distribution room. The team also repainted the indoor distribution room and the main entrance hallway. They also got to help serve on Saturday on a food distribution day.

This ministry was assisted through a BRN ministry grant.