1st Annual Youth Missions Golf Tournament

On behalf of First-Centenary Student Ministry, I would like to invite you to be a part of our 1st Annual Youth Missions Golf Tournament at Valleybrook Golf Course on Friday, April 16th beginning at 11:30am.  Your participation/support in this tournament will help around twenty high school and college students participate in a life changing mission trip to Roatan, Honduras. 

If a round of golf sounds fun or if you just want to support youth in missions then we invite you to help by supporting us in one of the following ways:

• Major Prize Sponsor — $300
  (Name on sign as sponsor for “Longest Drive”, “Closest to the pin”, or any other major prize winning hole.)
• Hole Sponsor — $100
  (Name on sign as sponsor for a particular hole.)
• Cart Sponsor — $50
  (Name on sign as sponsor for a particular golf cart.)
• Individual Player — $60
  (Green and cart fees.)
• Friend of First-Centenary UMYF — (Under) $50
  (“I’m not a golfer but I would like to support the youth’s mission project)
• Student Volunteer Sponsor — $40
  (Sponsor a volunteer at the tournament.)
• Donating Door Prizes — NA
  (“I’ve got some goodies to give away or some cash to help buy goodies to give away.”)

You can register as a single player or as an entire team here. If you wish to sponsor a hole, cart, etc. then you may call or email Troy Hamilton at 423-756-2021 or you can just send a check (made out to: “First-Centenary United Methodist Church”) to:

We will recognize all of our sponsors at the tournament.  We plan to finalize all sponsorships by April 15, 2010. .

More about the youth's planned mission trip to Honduras

In 2010 or 2011, we plan to partner with SURO Missions Ministries for an international mission trip.  Roatan is home to an impoverished population with an average income of four hundred dollars per year. The island has a growing and desperate population of orphans in need of homes, food and medical attention. While in Roatan, Honduras we plan to work at an orphanage, do some “Street Ministry”, participate in at least two different worship services, and do whatever else SURO needs us to do.  I led a youth group on a mission trip to this same place in 2008 and the amount of poverty we saw was horrific and yet the people showed such amazing faith in God.  The students of First-Centenary are excited about this trip.  SURO Missions has already built a hospital (small clinic) on the island and is working on several new projects for 2010 & 2011.

The cost for our 2010 mission trip is $36,000 ($1,800 per person).  Each person pays close to half of the total cost, around $10,000 comes from the Student Ministry Budget and the rest comes from fundraisers like this one.  We have never attempted to raise this much money in such a small amount of time before.  So your support is greatly needed and appreciated!