With the school year quickly drawing to a close, preparations are beginning for a FULL summer of youth ministry here at Epiphany that will include many opportunities for fun, fellowship, and faith. This summer we have twelve students embarking on a bicycling mission adventure with Spoke Folk in three different states!This summer’s Epiphany spoke folkers include:Minnesota Tour (June 15-26): Alex Davenport, Alyssa Embry, Kayley Hedge, Mason Kilroy, Katie Kleinwaechter, and Benton Miller
Ohio Tour (June 29 – July 10): Abby Johns
Michigan Tour (July 13-24): Jimmy Basner, Nick Conley, Abby Depp, Alyssa Embry, Anna Hesseman, and Audrey Mullen
The Twelve Best Days of Summer
This summer marks Epiphany’s fifth year participating in Spoke Folk, a mission trip that trains high school and college students how to be missionaries in their daily lives. Students are taught effective lifetime discipleship habits and learn to share the gospel as they travel each day from church to church and town to town by bicycle. Each night, they will share the gospel in the community through music, testimonies, and skits.
Our students will form deep friendships with Christian youth from all over the country. They will be challenged, built up and encouraged. They will make a difference in the lives of the people they meet along the way. There are only a few truly life-changing experiences that come our way throughout life, and this is one of them.
How can YOU love Jesus by supporting our ministry with Spoke Folk?
Congregational support is an important part of this life-changing ministry for our youth. Here’s how you can be part of our mission, training, and ministry!
Congregational support is an important part of this life-changing ministry for our youth. Here’s how you can be part of our mission, training, and ministry!
PRAY! Please include our young people in your prayers before, during, and after their Spoke Folk trips. Pray that they would have a safe journey and that our youth would be strengthened in faith and leadership through this experience.
Become a Sponsor. We are asking you, as members of our Epiphany family, to consider becoming part of our ministry with Spoke Folk by sponsoring our students financially for the journey. Sponsorship gifts are very important and enable our students to share in a life-changing service and faith-building opportunity through Spoke Folk. It costs $375 for each youth participating in Spoke Folk, plus the cost of transportation to and from their tour, and we have a hefty fundraising goal of $4000. We are looking for members of our church family to sponsor a student for a full-day of the journey at $30 or to sponsor a half-day at $15. We were at the Austin Campus on Sunday, April 3 and will be at all Far Hills Campus worship services the weekend of April 16-17. Look for bike helmets and orange flags, and ask us more about how you can be part of this incredible journey!
Sponsorship checks may be made payable to Epiphany Lutheran Church (memo: Spoke Folk) and handed to us in person during sponsorship weekend or dropped off in the Church Office c/o Erin Haligowski, Youth Director. You may also give online.
