Pentecost Offering for Youth Workers and Children at Risk

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Pentecost is May 23rd. On that day a special offering provides a way to contribute toward Presbyterian programs to meet the needs of children at risk, youth, and young adults. There will be inserts in the bulletin to give more details about some of these programs.
The Pentecost Offering supports a new generation of leadership for the church through the Young Adult Volunteer (YAV) program. YAVs spend a year in service either here or abroad.  They raise funds for their own support during that year, but the Pentecost Offering funds training programs and pays travel expenses for their year of mission involvement. These Young Adult Volunteers serve in communities of need and explore their call to the work of Jesus Christ. Many go on to become pastors or mission workers.
The offering also supports General Assembly ministries with youth through Presbyterian youth workers. It also funds advocacy on issues of child poverty and health and education.  Forty percent of the Pentecost Offering can be designated by Hunter to local programs for children at risk.  Past offerings have been shared with Bellewood and with Kids Café. Last year, the flooding in Jackson and Breathitt Counties created urgent need. Hunter’s Pentecost Offering was used by the Interfaith Alliance in Jackson to provide things needed by the children whose lives were disrupted by the flooding.