People I met along the way asked what I'd be doing for the summer, but I didn't really know. And besides, it had to be better than another summer working in a factory. As it turned out, the first thing I did was get a job . . They are crucial to our mission of turning lost students into Christ-centered laborers. Young people today desire community, and a project models a Christian community.
Participants work together, live together, hurt together, do everything together.
At the halfway point, all staff members leave, and the students take total responsibility for running the project. During the project they gain confidence in telling others about their faith. It's not only project members who become Christ-centered laborers. During my summer in New Hampshire, each of us attended a local church. At one church, project members met Sharon, a local high-school girl.