Missions Videos
October 2011 - NiCE / Kids Against Hunger
The Nicaragua Christian Education (NiCE) Foundation mobile packing unit (Kids Against Hunger) traveled to Spooner, Wisconsin, for a food packing event held on October 22, 2011 at the Spooner Elementary School. Three shifts of volunteers from the surrounding communities shared their time and resources to pack 45,576 meals for the children of Nicaragua. Thank you all!
October 2011 - Service Saturday (Serving Locally & Internationally)
Serving locally and internationally on Service Saturday. Groups from Spooner Wesleyan Church went out into local communites to serve in many different ways from home repair, to yard maintenance, to school playground maintence and beyond. Meanwhile, the community came to lend a helping hand at a NiCE/Kids Against Hunger food packing event. Over 45,000 meals were packed and will be delivered to the children in need in Nicaragua.
September 2011 - Missions Trip to Jesus People, Covenant Church in Inner City Chicago
Spooner Wesleyan Church - September 21-25, 2011. Jesus People USA (JPUSA) is a Christian community in the inner city of Chicago, and is best known for its social-service ministries. It operates as both an intentional Christian community and as a worshiping church. Our Spooner Wesleyan mission's team service included serving 350 meals/day at Cornerstone Community Outreach (CCO), helping distribute clothing at The Free Store in Sylvia House (a shelter for homeless singles and families, and cleaning apartments at LeLand House, a transitional house to help individuals move out on their own. The 450 people who live together at a single address on Chicago's north side look to the model of Christian community depicted in the New Testament (Acts 44-47, 4:32-35). The annual Cornerstone Music and Arts Festival gathers 20,000 young Christians for five days of camping, concerts, and seminars. JPUSA's many and varied musical groups have made an impact worldwide.
July 2011 - Youth Team to Datona Beach, Florida
Our Youth team traveled to Daytona Beach, Florida, and teamed up with Youthworks, and other youth mission teams from around the U.S., to come alonside organizations in the city helping those in need. While in Daytona Beach, our team served at local food banks and soup kitchens, rec centers and summer programs, disability and recovery centers. We enjoyed serving one-another and developing relationships with new friends at these organizations as well as team mates from Florida, Louisiana, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania.
February 2011 - Medical Team to Nicaragua / Construction Team to Swaziland, Africa
Two missions teams certainly warmed many of hearts in February. A medical team traveled to Managua, Nicaragua, and a construction team to Swaziland, Africa. The medical team served in Nicaragua as a way of helping churches reach out into their community. In developing countries, churches are good places for people to learn about physical health as well as spiritual health. As the Spirit of God grows the love of God in people's hearts, interest and concern for their neighbors will grow. The construction team traveled to Swaziland, Africa, to encourage our brothers and sisters in Christ, by assisting in the reconstruction and finishing work of a building at Emmanuel Wesleyan Bible College. Both teams offer their hands and hearts to many of whom are living in hard poverty and discouraging circumstances. The team members worked alongside locals in each country in ministering to both physical and spiritual needs of the church congregations and to people from the surrounding communities.
September - 2010 Medical Missions to Nicaragua
The medical team from Wisconsin joined up with Nicaraguan doctors and medical students to help provide community outreach opportunities for the churches where clinics are held throughout Nicaragua. The week began by dosing out and packing medicine alongside Nicaraguan church members from various locations. The day was filled with building new relationships and visiting with friends from previous years. This year, a dentist traveled with the team and provided dental care to those who were in need. The medical team serves hundreds of people daily in effort to share the love of Christ and help the churches reach out into the communities, grow, and bring people into relationship with Jesus Christ.
July 2010 - Youth Missions - At Home
In July of 2010, twelve teens spent a week serving our local communities of Rice Lake, Sarona, Shell Lake, and Spooner. During the week, we served at the Lakeland Family Resource Center (Spooner), Washburn County Food Pantry (Spooner), Shell Lake Beach during movie night, Spooner Nursing Home, and St. Vincents de Paul (Rice Lake). We also served families around the area by making home-made meals, helping with driveway repair, yard clean-up and lakeshore clean-up. We also enjoyed baking and delivering cookies as a form of Random Acts of Kindness to say "thank you" to organizations who serve our community.
February 2010 - Xai Xai, Mozambique
In February, a team of 10 men spent 2 1/2 weeks in Xai Xai, Mozambique, Africa, where they helped the Wesleyan Bible College in Xai Xai build a kitchen facility. The original kitchen was located in the same building as the classrooms, which caused disruptions of smoke and noise from cooking with large pots and pans over wood fires. The new kitchen was built in a separate building conveniently located on campus.
July 2009 - Youth Missions to Guatemala
Youth missions to Guatemala. In July of 2009, our group as well as others from around the U.S. teamed up with IMPACTO Ministries and served the communities surrounding Lake Atitlán. During the week we help build two houses, painted a church, helped in a variety of ways at Vacation Bible Schools, distributed hygiene products and medicine at free clinics, washed and fitted many many feet with shoes during "Happy Feet", and made lots of new friends!
February 2009 - Medical Missions to Nicaragua
The medical team conducted public health clinics to help provide a community outreach opportunity for the churches where the clinics are located. USA and Nicaraguan team members work together in ministering to the church congregations and people from the surrounding community in an effort to bring people to Christ, and help grow physically and spiritually health churches. Church folk have stated that the fact that the teams keep coming back are a great encouragement to them, and for many, the teams provide the only health education and medical care they receive. This year's construction project was different than previous years. It was a two story church building (Iglesia Jesuchristo es el Camino in Managua) for which the congregation had already built the first story. We joined their work in progress and had a good time of fellowship working alongside them.
September 2008 - Medical Missions to Nicaragua
Five days of clinics were held at four different church sites in Managua, Masaya, Matagalpa, and Masatepe. Hundreds of people were treated each day with consults that included medication and health education. Nicaraguan church members assisted at each clinic by helping to organize and operate the clinics, entertaining children with balloons, and preparing a noon meal for clinic workers. Also during the week, Missionary Jim Eckhardt was assisted in the delivery of the Wesleyan Bible Institute web site, or Instituto Bíblico Wesleyano (IBWWW), a Theological Education by Extension web site for the Latin American community and beyond. The IBWWW.ORG website offers theological education online using coursework and curriculum developed by Jim Eckhardt and Mike Knox.
July 2008 - Youth Missions to Kansas City, MO
Youth missions to the inner-city if KC. While in Kansas City, we helped with yard clean-up for elderly folks, visited residents at nursing homes, tutored at a reading program for kids, weeded at community gardens, helped at a city day-care center, and also helped move boxes from a storage location under the city (aka "Down Town Underground") to another storage facility for the day care center.
July 2007 - Youth Missions - Compassion at Home
Compassion at home. In July of 2007, the youth spent a week doing local missions around Shell Lake and Spooner. We cleaned up garbage around Spooner, helped at Lakeland Family Resource Center, Washburn County Food Pantry, Washburn County Humane Society and at Food Distribution. We also spent some time at the Shell Lake Beach talking to people about Jesus as well as a prayer walk around Spooner.