Annual Pochahontas Mission Trip

Contact: Missions coordinator

Each year in July we take a week-long mission trip to Pocahontas, Virginia. During the trip, we help families with work that they can either not afford or are unable to do for themselves. There is no charge to attend unless you prefer to stay in a motel. The majority of the team stays in town either at the Catholic Parish House or in the Baptist parsonage that are offered to us free of charge. We eat breakfast on our own. Lunch is delivered to our work sites. And we have dinner together in the fellowship hall of the Baptist Church.

We have been going to Pocahontas for five years now and have formed a special relationship with the people there. We could go to other places where the United Methodist Church focuses like helping with the recovery in the Gulf States but we choose to go to a place that others might ignore and to do what we can in that area. Going to Pocahontas also allows us to use the majority of our money for work projects rather than transportation. It also allows us to go for varying lengths of time.

If you are interested in joining in the work, please contact the missions coordinator.