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Banquet of Praise
Bread for the World, 1990
A book of worship resources, hymns and songs in the spirit of justice, peace, and food for all. Available for ($2.00 per copy, member cost) and ($6.00 per copy, non-member cost). Banquet of Praise is organized in a format allowing worship planners to pick and choose prayers, responsive readings, hymns, and other liturgical components to build their own worship or devotional experiences.

Bread for the World
50 F Street NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC, 20001
Phone: 800.82.BREAD or 202.639.9400
Fax: 202.639.9401
E-mail: bread@bread.org
Web site: www.bread.org

Creation Care Magazine
An interdenominational quarterly addressing issues of environmental concern, ecology, action ideas, and responsible care of creation.For subscriptions and membership information contact:

Creation Care
10 East Lancaster Avenue
Wynnewood, PA 19096
Phone: 800.650.6600
Fax: 610.649.8090
Web site:www.creationcare.org

Lutheran World Relief Coffee Project
(Equal Exchange)
Through the LWR Coffee Project, small coffee farmers in Latin America and Africa earn a fairer share of income from the crop they grow, have access to services that are otherwise unavailable to small growers and gain a partnership with a Fair Trade organization called Equal Exchange. To purchase coffee, tea, hot cocoa and sugar for individual use, church fellowship hour, office or school use.

Gifts or fundraisers visit: www.lwr.org/coffee  |  Email: fairtrade@lwr.org
Phone: 774.776.7340

Information on this and other Lutheran World Relief projects is available from:
LWR
700 Light Street
Baltimore, MD 21230-3850
Phone: 410.230.2800
Web site: www.lwr.org/coffee

Lutheran World Relief
Fair Trade Projects visit:  http://lwr.org/fairtrade/index.asp

Lutheran World Relief Fair Trade Program
LWR's Fair Trade program offers a variety of fun ways to put faith into action: serve Fair Trade coffee during fellowship hour, sell Fair Trade chocolate as a fundraiser or host an LWR Fair Trade Fair just to name a few. Fair Trade means more of the money you pay for coffee, chocolate and gift items goes to the people who worked hardest in making them available to you. Their Fair Trade income means there's more money for farmers and artisans to buy food, educate their children, seek medical care, build better homes and strengthen their communities. A great way for youth and young adult groups to be leaders for justice in their parishes! Information on this and other Lutheran World Relief project is available from:

Lutheran World Relief
700 Light Street
Baltimore, MD 21230
1 800.LWR-LWR-2
Web site: www.lwr.org/fairtrade

Guide to Resource Efficient Building Elements
If you are a lay person into the technical side of building, this may be a helpful resource for you. The guide includes sources and technical information on recycled, environment-friendly and energy efficient construction materials.
Center for Resourceful Building Technology
114 W. Pine Street
Missoula, MT 59802
406.549.4100
Web site:www.crbt.org

Friendship Press
Ecumenical publisher of books and audiovisual educational resources on issues of social concern, cultural understanding and ecumenical mission efforts. Having an Excellent Adventure: Handbook for Responsible Travel. A Guide for planners and travelers. For additional materials order a free catalog by contacting the aboveDistribution Office/Cokesbury

Customer Service
PO Box 801, 201 Eight Avenue. S.
Nashville, TN 37202-0801
E-mail: customerservice@umpublishing.org
Web site: www.friendshippress/index.html
Phone: 800.889.5733
Fax: 800.445.8189

ACA Book Catalog
American Camp Association Bookstore (www.acabookstore.org)
Wilderness, residential and day camping program resources. An extensive selection of publications for leaders who work with youth in outdoor settings.
Web site: www.acabookstore.org

National Youth Leadership Council
Resources for developing service learning programs in schools.
1667 Snelling Avenue North, Suite D300
Saint Paul, MN 55108
651.631.3672
Web site: www.nylc.org

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Other Servant and Mission Experiences

Youth Works!
YouthWorks is a multi-denominational youth mission organization that leads summer mission trips for junior and senior high youth in 75 mission sites across the United States, Mexico, Canada and Puerto Rico.
3530 East 28th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55406
Phone: 800.968.8504 or 612.729.5444
Web site: www.youthworks.com

Group Workcamps Foundation
Service opportunities: Home repair and community service. Life-changing mission trips since 1977. Missions for preteens and teenagers. Grow closer to God while serving people in need. Nearly a quarter of a million people served! Missions designed to bring youth groups and young adults closer to God by helping others!
1515 Cascade Avenue
PO Box 599
Loveland, CO 80539
Phone: 800.385.4545
Email: info@groupworkcamps.com
Web site:www.GroupWorkcamps.com
Where: Domestic and International locations

Rockford Urban Ministries (RUM)
201 Seventh Street
Rockford, IL 61104
Phone: 815.964.7111
RUM is a faith-based non-profit that works tirelessly to alleviate poverty and oppression in the inner-city of Rockford, Illinois. Every spring, summer, and fall, RUM conducts workcamps for groups age 14+ of all skill levels. Groups stay in area churches and do work on low-income housing or for food pantries, homeless shelters, and children's outreach centers.
E-mail:rockfordurbanmin@aol.com
Web site: www.gbgm-umc.org/urbanmin/

SWAP (Sharing With Appalachian People)
An MCC Great Lakes Program
P.O. Box 460
Whitesburg, KY, 41858
Ph./Fax: (606) 633-5065
E-mail: SWAPAdmin@mcc.org
Web site: www.mcc.org/swap
SWAP is a “serve and learn” home repair ministry that mobilizes Christian youth and inter-generational volunteer groups to express their faith in a practical way. SWAP participants are challenged to develop relationship with the people they serve and consider Christian responses to justice and poverty issues in rural Appalachia. Whether you’re a skilled carpenter or simply a hard worker, there is a place for you to serve with SWAP! See photos at: http://mcc.org/swap/SWAPpromo.html

The Pittsburgh Project
2801 North Charles Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15214-3110
Phone: 412.321.1678
Fax: 412.321.3813
E-mail: headquarters@pittsburghproject.org
Web site: www.pittsburghproject.org
We run innovative week-long and weekend urban mission trips for junior and senior high students. Our staff provides nightly programming, worship, music, discussion group leadership, meals, tools, and construction materials. Highlights include relational ministry to vulnerable homeowners and hands-on repair across 35 Pittsburgh neighborhoods. Over 22,000 participants since 1985.

Discovering Opportunities for Outreach and Reflection (DOOR)
Phone: 303.295.3667 (National Office)
www.citymissions.org
DOOR offers organized urban service learning trips for groups and individuals designed to "See the face of God in the city" through service, worship, and reflection. Our Discover program is for groups (age13 and up) from all denominations to come for a weekend or a week and volunteer in the community. Our Discern program is for individuals to be in the city as support staff or for a study term exploring more deeply the strengths and needs of the city. Our Dwell program is for individuals to spend a year living in Christian community and working with the city. We are located in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Miami, and San Antonio.

Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
1100 East 55th Street
Chicago, IL 60615
Phone: 800.635.1116, ext. 725
Fax: 773/256-0782 (Attn: YIM)
Contact: heather Wallace
youthinmission@lstc.edu
www.lstc.edu

Serving Christ in the World
Application Deadline: February 20, 2008
Program Dates: June 14-July 6, 2008
Youth discover and affirm ways to serve Christ in the world while experiencing fellowship and fun. Approximately 25 youth who have completed their sophomore or junior year of high school by June of the current year spend two weeks at LSTC and one week at the Lutheran Center in Mexico City, Mexico and four days with the Lutheran Seminary Program of the Southwest in Texas. Through plenary sessions, small group discussions, worship, visits to neighborhoods, and guest speakers the youth explore their faith and ministry.

Beyond Belief - This is an opportunity for high school youth groups to come to Chicago for a ministry opportunity. This program connects congregations with the seminary and with Chicago's service organizations. LSTC will provide low cost housing in the Youth Center, contracts for service projects, a tour of LSTC, and two meals with conversation with seminarians about vocation and seminary. The youth group leaders will be able to mold the program to fit their group's spiritual and scheduling needs.

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