Teens Ready to SPLASH
Macon
by Brenda W. Medlin
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The youth at Tabernacle Baptist Church will be making a
SPLASH this summer. SPLASH Macon, a week of missions, Bible
study and evangelism, will take place July 21-25 at the
church, located at 6611 Zebulon Road in Macon. SPLASH stands
for Show People Love And Share Him.
Unlike other mission trips where youth go to different
cities, states, or even foreign countries to rebuild
targeted areas and to witness for Christ, SPLASH Macon will
take place right here in our own community. Young people of
this area will be working to revitalize Macon and showing
the love of Christ. The participants attending SPLASH Macon
will be involved in projects working on 10-12 houses in need
of re-roofing, repairs, painting and yard work. The homes
were selected from a list provided by Macon Rebuild.
After starting each day with a worship rally led by Troy
Dykes, Minister of Students at Tabernacle Baptist Church,
the groups will head to work at 7:30 each morning. Area
churches sponsoring the groups will provide transportation
to the work sites and make lunches for the teams. "This
is really a community effort with several local churches
involved," Dykes said of the project. The groups will
return to TBC at 4 p.m. each day. Wednesday will be a half
day of work with fun activities scheduled in the afternoon.
As part of the SPLASH Macon project, there will be nightly
worship services. Music will be provided by Tide, a praise
band from Jacksonville, Florida. The community is invited to
attend at 7:30 each evening.
Dykes, the Project Coordinator for SPLASH Macon, teamed
up with Mission Serve, the Student Ministry of Serve
Management to carry out this project. Serve Management is a
faith based, non-profit organization that provides mission
experiences for youth and adults. This summer the
organization will host service projects in 18 U. S. cities
as well as in Guatemala and the Yucatan Peninsula. According
to Serve Management, 1 in 5 Macon residents live below the
poverty level and 70% of the population does not believe in
Christ as their Saviour.
Dykes has been involved in missions since his high school
days when he participated each summer with Bearing Precious
Seeds Mission. He later worked with Go Tell Ministries and
was also the founder of Y. A. C. K. Youth Revivals. The idea
for SPLASH Macon is based on a new evangelism book by Ken
and Paula Hemphill entitled SPLASH: Show People Love And
Share Him.
Each participant will receive a copy of the book and
learn the SPLASH curriculum as a follow-up to the mission
project. The book is designed as a six-part study for
individuals or for groups to learn effective ways to share
the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Currently over 100 students from six churches have signed
up for SPLASH Macon. Anyone wishing to volunteer is welcome
to participate. A registration fee of $100 per person
includes a participant book or leaders guide, a T-shirt and
all meals and lodging for 6 nights.
Lodging will be at Tabernacle Baptist Church.
Registration begins on Sunday afternoon, July 20th, and
participants will depart from the church on Saturday, July
26th. For more information on how you or your youth group
can be a part of this ministry, contact the church office at
476-3507 or email tdykestbc@bellsouth.net.
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