SOUTH NEW BERLIN– On March 23, former members of the First Baptist Church of South New Berlin’s youth group, along with Pastor Barry Davis – 1st Baptist Church Burlington Green – and youth group leaders Cathy Smith and Fawn Dix, will be bringing Reach Missions Camp to Chenango County. All are invited to attend this community building event.

Each summer, beginning in 2009 until 2013, the group attended one week of work camp with Reach Ministries International.

Reach Ministries International is head quartered in Galeton, CO. Reach is an inter-denominational organization whose mission is to assist elderly, disabled, and low income homeowners with basic repairs to their homes, making them safer and more accessible. There is no cost to the homeowner.

Youth Groups from all over the country pack up their tools and caravan to places like Niagara Falls, NY and New Oxford, PA.

Once there, the groups join approximately five hundred staff, leaders, and youth in building relationships and repairing homes. At night the campers settle in at a local high school for worship, music, and games. In the evening after dinner each participant writes a positive note to the people in their groups. The notes are placed in envelopes and given out at the end of the week. The days are full of building, painting, and repairing homes. The work embraces spending quality time with the family, in their home.