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MISSIONWACO•WORLD
Summer 2016 <www.missionwaco.org> 254.753.4900
Center Stage North Waco
Prodigy Becomes NYC Theater
SensationStevie Walker- Webb
Living just a few blocks away from the Ju-bilee Theatre, an eleven year old kid in Mission Waco’s after-school program nev-er imagined that in just over a decade, he would be in the spotlight of national the-ater. On May 20, Walker-Webb received his Masters of Fine Arts degree from the prestigious School of Drama at The New School, home to a dynamic group of young directors, writers, actors, creative technol-ogists, and award-winning faculty in New York City. While there, he received the “Princess Grace- Gant Gaither Award for Theatre” (2015). He also completed spe-cialized training in the Theatre of the Op-pressed, which partners with social service organizations and city agencies to creates theatre troupes with community members who face pressing social, economic, health, and human rights issues. The troupes cre-ate and perform plays based on real life struggles, which engage diverse audiences in theatrical brainstorming and spark cre-ative change on the individual, community and political levels.
Walker-Webb is a multidisciplary play-wright and director who uses theater, dance and visual arts to “dismantle the divisive barriers of class, race and gender,” often using comedy and the absurd to dis-cuss difficult social problems. He traveled to South Africa earlier this year to study the effects of apartheid. He was recently selected as a Fellow in the New York The-atre Workshop. As the newly appointed Program Manager for the Fulani Fellow-ship ALL Stars Project, he will help train artists to help poor communities .
Summer Camps Enrich
Children & Youth
Limited Scholarships AvailableEnroll Now at 1315 N. 15th St.
Giving BackNeighborhood Children
Now Engaged AdultsFor co-founders Jimmy and Janet Dor-rell, getting old has its benefits. Thir-ty-eight years after moving into their struggling neighborhood, they have joy-fully watched the kids grow up! In an area, once filled with bars, drug dealers, prostitution, and a porno theater, North Waco, parents back then worried about the safety and opportunities for their chil-dren. Today, many of those “children” are “grown-ups,” working for or volunteering with Mission Waco to make a difference in the lives of other children and adults in the same neighborhood. Christian community development is based on the premise that empowerment is a better tool than relief ministries that often create dependency and undermine real change. “The people with the problem must be a part of the solutions to the problems.” Today, the results of that ministry philosophy shine brightly through the lives of some extraordianary adults who grew up in the neighborhood.
BRONSCHA HARRIS- At age 34, he is now the co-manager of the Bellmead Walmart. Bronscha has been serving on the Jubilee Food Mkt. Continued inside...
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Children’s Day CampAges 5-11; June 6-28; $30
A few openings for 1:30-4:00 session. Enjoy recreation, field trips,reading, swimming, theater and visual arts.
Camp of the Hills week +$25.
Grades 6-12; June 6-28’ 9:00-12:30Cost is $30 (+$25 for Camp of the Hillls
option.) Recreation, field trips, swim-ming, theater and art, service projects,
college trips and more.
Ages 5-11: June 13-18, 9:00-4:00 ($140)Ages 12-18: June 26-July 2; 9:00-4:00 ($150)
Ages 8-11: June 14-16; 21-23; 1:30-3:30 ($30)Ages 8-11: July 5-7; 12-14; 9:00-4:00 ($30)
Mexico CityCome go with us!
June 30-July 7Application & Deposit Due!
Did you hear the one about the Baptist preacher and the
Catholic nun? Roberto Mendoza was a businessman from Mexico City, struggling with alcohol when God got a hold of him. Sister Inez was a Catholic nun in a poor barrio struggling with her call about leaving her order to start an orphanage for physically and mentally disabled children who were abandoned. In a city of 30 million people with geographic, cultural and religious barriers, only God could put them together. The Dorrells and several friends headed to Mexico City to help in early 1986, soon after a devastating earthquake hit their city. By the providence of God, he brought them all together in a min-istry to the poor that has lasted thirty years. Each year, Mission Waco/Mission World takes groups there for an “exposure trip” to meet and join with Mendoza and Sister Inez for a week of loving the orphans, visiting the sick, addicted and elderly, and worshipping with hundreds of the homeless. It’s a life changing trip for those who go with us....a kind of journey into the “real” world of poverty and human need. So if you are tired of sitting in church and doing little for the world’s poor, come join us. You will laugh,cry and discover a new level of motivation to impact God’s kingdom that you never knew. Don’t wait long to register or ask questions. See <http://missionwaco.org/mexico/> for details!
Join the FHC Doctors & Others for Lunch at Urban
Edibles, 11:00-2:00 M-F
...Giving Back (con’t.)“Dream Team,” the group of twelve men and a woman bringing their talents in the food industry to help shape the new non-profit grocery store that opens this fall.
SHAY HARRIS- (Age 34) Mention “chil-dren’s program” at Mission Waco and you always add her name. Shay has been serving our 5-11 year olds for many years. At the same time, she has completed her Associ-ates Degree at McLennan Community Col-lege and is now working on her Bachelors’s at Texas Tech through the MCC University Center. (Her twin brother is Bronscha.)
LATRICE CAUFIELD-(age 31) When you open the door to the World Cup Cafe, that helpful, smiling face is most likely Latrice. Once a youth in Mission Waco programs, now her children are involved in the chil-dren, youth and theatre programs. Latrice was recently one of the models at our style show fundraiser.
RAMAD CARTER- Now a budding actor undergraduate student in the New School for Drama in NYC, he was once right in the middle of Mission Waco’s active youth program. For the last several years, Ramad has returned to Texas in th summer to help direct the Jubilee Theatre summer camps.
STEVIE WALKER-WEBB- (see front page for more of the story). Stevie came to Mission Waco as an 11 yr. old child and stayed through high school, when he left for college an UNT. After college, he was hired as the Jubilee Theatre’s first director and during his three years there wrote two plays and directed several Broadway plays on the Jubilee stage, before heading to NYC with scholarships to complete his Masters of Fine Art degree.
The Jubilee Food Mkt.“Dream Team”(& other really cool volunteers)
12 men and a woman with different skills that are all needed to create a non-profit grocery store meet several Saturdays to plan the site, construction, funding priori-ties, etc. Some drive down from Dallas.
Western Heights Baptist Church sent 1/3 of their church to help Mission Waco projects.
The Midway Base-ball Team helped de-molish a red-tagged house next door.
Crestview Church of Christ members tore out a wall for the Ju-bilee Food Mkt reno-vation project.
Regents School brings there 9th grad-ers to Mission Waco each Spring to learn and engage with us.
Community Bank employees attended the “Fashion with a Passion” Style Show fundraiser for the arts
Congreso is a state-wide Hispanic youth event held at Baylor’s Ferrell Ctr. Mission Waco hosted 550 of them in community projects .
L a k e p o i n t e Church (Dallas) brought 60 fourth and fifth graders for several days this Spring.
Match Grant Doubles Children’s Summer Program
A generous $12,500 donation by an anonymous couple to help Mission Waco include urban chil-dren on a waiting list for the outstanding sum-mer program became a huge catalyst. Other donors pitched in to meet their challenge match, but actually exceeded the original donation with $19,257 more funds, for a total of $31,757 all together. On behalf of scores of kids, we say “thank you” for your sacrificial giving.
Poverty Simulation Research Shows Significant Impact!
25,000 participants over 30 years of 42-hr. weekend
NFL Football All -American & Worldwide Prison Minister
BILL GLASSto speak at MW
“Champions of Christian Service Breakfast”
September 8, 6:45am Waco Convention Ctr.with Vince Clark
MCC Golf Coach & ProfessorHe made a name for himself as one of the most outstanding football players in the National Football League. He was a consensus All Amer-ican at Baylor University . Working with his life-long friend, Dr. Bill Bright, he helped establish the Campus Crusade for Christ chapter on the Baylor Campus.
He was a member of the 1964 Cleveland Browns team who beat the Baltimore Colts to win the NFL World Championship two years pri-or to the first Super Bowl. Four - time All Pro and College and Texas Sports Hall of Fame were some of Bill’s athletic credentials.
Glass shared his testimony at the Billy Graham Crusade and eventually created what is now called Bill Glass Behind the Walls, sharing the good news with the imprsioned worldwide.
Mission Waco is honored to host this outstand-ing Christian leader. The annual breakfast rec-ognizes outstanding community Christian lead-ers who serve others in exemplary ways.
After three decades of offering a unique full weekend training which combines both experience and cognitive trainiing for par-ticipants wanting to both understand local and global poverty and find ways to serve the poor, new research shows it works! In the Spring semester, Mr. Jesse Harden, a Masters of Social Work (MSW) student at Baylor University, chose to study the im-pact of change of Mission Waco’s poverty simulation. His research focused on partic-ipants who had participated in the Friday evening through Sunday afternoon training within the last 12-36 months. His findings in a nutshell, “the poverty simulation sig-nificantly increases participants’ frequency of service with/on behalf of the poor with a 31% increase.” 76% of respondents who stated an intention to serve following the poverty simulation did so, with 66% hav-ing served as recently as within the last three months of this study. “Futhermore, findings suggest that the participants’ views and understanding of poverty was deepened, empathy toward those experiencing poverty was increased and decisions/voting on policies im-pacting the poor were influenced.”
SUMMARY: “Results indicate it significantly increases both service, understanding, empathy, and voting on policies which affect the poor.”
Jesse Harden, MSW
Upcoming Weekends2016June 10-12June 24-26 July 8-10July 22-24Sept 16-18Sept 30-Oct 2Oct 21-23 Nov 11-13The weekend is limited to a maximum of 75 participants, (youth, college and adults). Youth must have completed the eighth grade to attend. Adult sponsors of youth must participate with them. Cost is $65 for the weekend. No partial attendance allowed. See http://mis-sionwaco.org/poverty-simulation/ for details. Deposits required to hold spots.
Winter-Spring 2017Jan 27-29Feb 17-19 Mar 24-26 Apr 7-9 Apr 21-23
School Supply Store
SummerStock Up
Backpacks become priority item for Mission Waco’s children and youth for the 2016-17 school year. Low-er-income parents receive discount-ed vouchers of 80% off after attend-ing summer training sessions. Want to help. Donations and volunteers needed this summe for kick-off.
Can’t afford a lawyer?
If you are struggling with poverty and still need legal advice or help, Mission Waco can help. First Monday legal advice clinics are held each month in the Meyer Center, 6:00-8:00pm, 1226 Washington. Advocacy for immigration, barriers to employment, housing, wills, estates and power of attor-ney services are now available at reduced rates. Call 254-296-9866, ext. 212 or email <[email protected]>. Walk-ins are assisted if time permits.
MANNA HOUSEFaith-Based Alcohol & Drug
Residential Treatment for Men254-296-9866, ext.204
12:2Meyer Center, Thursdays, 6:30A weekly gathering for women and men in the community who need a safe place to talk, be encouraged and learn about cop-ing with addictions. 1226 Washington; en-ter parking lot side, kitchen door.
$325 for table of 8
MISSIONWACO•WORLD
1315 N. 15th StreetWaco, TX 76707
Non-Profit OrganizationU.S. Postage
PAIDPermit No. 74
Change Service Requested
“hands-on compassion”
Discounted Tickets Available Again This Year at
MISSION WACO OFFICE1319 N. 15th St.
$17 eachDrink band $3
Waterpark partners with Mission Waco’s
Urban Youth Job Training Program
64% of non-profit grocery store funded so far;
Will you buy some O.A.S.I.S. shares?
Remodeling could begin as early as late June with the possibility of an early fall opening date of the Jubilee Food Market that will be an oasis in a food desert. Donors have generously given to this unique North Waco community develop-ment project that addresses the unmet need of hundreds of residents who live 2.2 miles from the closest grocery store and have little access to healthy and affordable food. Contruction is expected to take eight weeks, much of it provid-ed or discounted by contractors and businesses who believe in the effort. Cost for the renova-tions are estimated at $488,000, not including the food inventory and some of the equipment. Want to help? Your role is important to make it happen. Contact <[email protected]>
In April, Mission Waco Mission World received a letter confirming that Mission Waco Mission World has once again re-ceived Charity Navigator’s highest excep-tional "4-star rating.” As the nation's largest charity evaluator, that is a big deal to us and to those who generously donate to our min-istry. Their letter said, "Receiving four out of a possible four stars indicates that your organization adheres to good governance and other best practices that minimize the chance of unethical activities and consis-tently executes its mission in a fiscally re-sponsible way. Approximately a quarter of the charities we evaluate have received our highest rating, indicating that Mission Waco Mission World outperforms most other charities in America. OUR OVERALL RATING: 94.8
Ryan Forson, Waco’s park general manager, and President Clint Hill and have helped lead this Christian-based organization to include engagement in local communities where they serve. To date they have hired three lower-in-come teens to work in the Waco waterpark.
