SAGE
Learning and Serving Trips

AN ECUMENICAL MINISTRY OF YAKAMA CHRISTIAN MISSION AND WILBUR METHODIST MEMORIAL

Home Registration

White Swan Fire Winter 2011

Wind gusts of over 50 mph push fire through the west end of town. Estimates have home loss at 20. If you are interested in helping the community, please consider a spring worktrip (or summer). We are not sure what work may be done, but whatever work is done will make a difference. Please get in touch with either David or Jill to make arrangements.


The Mission

SAGE is an ecumenical partnership between Methodists and Disciples of Christ in White Swan, Washington. SAGE Learning and Serving Trips engage youth, young adults, and elders in economic disaster relief while exploring the biblical witness regarding the poor, and learning how Christian, economic, business, and political practices maintain poverty. People have the opportunity to learn their capacity for living Missionally in the name of Christ.

Quick Overview

• Four full days of rural home repair, farm work, and working with homeless work.
• Accommodations at Historic Yakama Mission and Wilbur Memorial.
• Afternoon Time: visit the Yakama Nation Cultural Museum, historic Fort Simcoe, and personal reflection.
• Worship and devotions exploring rural/mission issues
• Thought provoking education concerning reservation history and poverty in relationship with Christianity.

They shall
build houses
and inhabit
them;
they shall
plant vineyards
and eat their
fruit.

Isaiah 65:21

Projects

SAGE participants work with partner organizations on the reservation to help the White Swan community and tend to communality agricultural needs. No previous experience is necessary.

Experience Personal Reflection

SAGE offers the unique opportunity to learn and reflect on the causes of reservation poverty and oppression. Participants find this work as challenging and rewarding, returning year after year to deepen their appreciation of God’s commitment to those who struggle.

 

 
 

Groups: Age and Number

SAGE incourages intergenerational groups. Therefore, folks of any age are welcomed to join us. Our typical groups size is forty or less. However, we can accomdate larger groups with adequate notice.

 

Typical Schedule

Sunday

5pm Arrive/Move into Mission
6pm Dinner
7:30pm “Welcome to White Swan” Program

Monday - Thursday

6am Wake Up/Showers/Prep. Breakfast
7am Breakfast/Make Lunches/Clean
8am Reservation Conversations
9am-2pm Worksite

2pm Clean Worksite
3pm Cultural Museum/Fort Simcoe
6pm Dinner
7:30pm Evening Activities/Worship
10pm Lights out

Friday

6am Wake Up
7am Breakfast
8am Clean UP
11am Head Home

 

 

Information

Many questions are answered on the registration page. However, please feel free to call David or Jill for more information concerning what your week might hold please email (Dave Bell @ dave@yakamamission.org or Jill Delaney @ jill@yakamamission.org) or call 509.969.2093

 

Rates per Person for 2011

L&S Rates Summer 2011
1-3 day stay - 2 workshops: $200
4-5 day stay - 4 workshops $275
(A day begins at 1 pm and ends at ends at 12 pm the next day.)

Rates include lodging, and minimal work supplies for trips 4 days or longer.
1-3 day stay does not include work supplies.


Flier

(The Flier is a Word Document so you might cut
and paste for fund raising or worship resources)

Registration
Contact: David Bell, dave@yakamamission.org, (509) 969-2093 or Jill Delaney, jill@yakamamission.org