Each year, Boston Avenue's Volunteer-In-Mission Subcommittee selects VIM team members from submitted applications for life-changing missions throughout the United States and the world!
Those chosen attend extensive orientation sessions in preparation for their mission of sharing God's love through word and deed. Their mission trip costs are underwritten in part by the mission endowment earnings, and they are also responsible for presenting reports to the church about their experience.
Past VIM missions have included medical, construction, or Vacation Bible School teams to places like South Africa, Costa Rica, Slovakia, Jamaica, Alaska, and Mexico, as well as construction missions to the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana and Biloxi, Mississippi.
Our most recent VIM mission was to El Alto, Bolivia in January 2009. While there, the team did construction work on a clinic, treated dental patients, did needs assessments, and worked on creating a new health program for women. Our Oklahoma United Methodist Bishop Robert Hayes also signed a covenant relationship agreement with Bishop Javier Rojas. The Oklahoma United Methodist Church has had a covenant relationship with Bolivia for more than 70 years.
A BA member fellowships with a young girl on the Blackfoot Indian
Reservation in Montana during a mission trip in 2006.
Senior High Youth Mission Trips
Each year Boston Avenue Senior High Youth attend missions to various locations. These missions form an important impression on them as they experience life very different from their own and serve God by serving others.
Senior High Youth and sponsors pause for a group picture in Rio Bravo, Mexico in December 2006.
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