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Overview | Summer of Service | Spring Into Service | Spring Breakouts
In Service Camps | Facilities | Where We Work | 2009 Dates

 

Overview
ReCreation Experiences is committed to providing groups of youth, adults, and families with opportunities to "share their faith through home repair mission". We began in 1990 connecting groups with opportunities to serve low income, fixed income, handicapped and the elderly through home rehab assistance. We are committed to offering opportunities that are safe, healthy, affordable and spiritually powerful. The programs are simple but powerful experiences for individuals and groups. The main goal is simple but profound: To touch lives through hammers paint and hard work...

GROUP SIZE: We have no minimum or maximum number of participants for any of our programs. At least one adult for every five youth will need to be provided and for groups of males and females, a same sex leader must be present to represent each gender. Your team will work together on a project designed specifically to meet your group's abilities and goals.

 

AGE REQUIREMENTS: ReCreation Experiences works with Junior High age and above. Junior High is defined by your group's designation of that age and class.

 

TRANSPORTATION: We have no transportation requirements. If you are traveling in a charter bus, please let us know so we can plan your work site accordingly. You will need, however, to have a vehicle available on your work site for your use during the day. We can assist you in locating a local rental service or company for a vehicle if needed.

 

FACILITIES: All housing will take place in our designated facilities. Housing may be in one of our host/partner churches or on campus at an area University. Cots and mattresses are provided.

  • Summers Of Service
    Week Of Works (WOW)
    $320.00 per person
  • Intensive Care Project (ICP)
    $265.00 per person
  • Spring Into Service
    Week Of Works (WOW)
    $320.00 per person

 

EQUIPMENT: We have available for usage all equipment needed for the project work you will be performing. Our team delivers the materials needed for work on your site and keeps your material needs stocked throughout the week. We ask each team to bring some basic hand tools and. A hammer, paint brush/bucket, safety goggles, and work gloves are a few. There may be tools and safety equipment that are specific to your worksite that you can bring; our staff will review those with you weeks prior to your arrival for your experience.

 

FOOD AND MEALS: ReCreation Experiences employs a full time Food Service Coordinator during the summer programs and has a person available during off season work camps. Our staff prepares the food and serves the meals during your experience with us. The meals are designed to prepare and replenish your body for the work you will be doing. The menus are tasty and we provide meat and non-meat options at each meal.

 

STAFF: The full time administrative staff is available to meet with you at any time. Your team will have one of our Interns or Full time staff assigned to you for the duration of your experience. This staff person will be available during your work day to consult and help with your work project and will be your personal contact throughout the project. They are available to assist and resource you in whatever way they are needed, except on your time off option. We are working during that time to prepare the rest of your experience or to prepare for the next teams arrival.

 

RISK ASSUMPTION AND MEDICAL RELEASE: All participants will be required to read and sign an Informed Consent Waiver and Indemnity Agreement, Medical Permission Form, and, a Covenant/Behavior Agreement. All participants under 18 years of age will be required to have a signature from a parent/guardian. No one will be allowed to participate until these documents are turned in completed and signed.

 

FEES: All costs are per person and include: All meals for the duration of your experience with us, lodging, work site materials and a T-Shirt for each participant reflecting the yearly theme of the program.

 

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Summer of Service

Week Of Works (WOW)
This program is the cornerstone of the ministry. It is a five day/six night experience. Arrival is on Sunday evening for dinner and orientation and departure is following breakfast on Saturday Morning. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday are workdays. Wednesday is a full day off to relax and regroup for the second half of the week.

COST: $320.00 per person
AVAILABLE:
Weekly beginning with the first full week in June and ending with the last week of July. Special arrangements can be made for other times of the year.


Intensive Care Project (ICP)
A three day/four night experience. Arrival is on Sunday night for dinner and orientation. Departure is following breakfast and morning worship on Thursday morning. Work days are Monday, Tuesday and a half-day on Wednesday followed by time off to relax and regroup.

COST: $265.00 per person
AVAILABLE: Only offered the 1st full week of June for Summer Camp Season. There are a limited number of these opportunities available.

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Spring into Service

Week Of Works (WOW)
The same experience you will find in the summer. The format and schedule are the same. Begins with Sunday night dinner and orientation and ends following breakfast on Saturday morning.

Spring Break is a great time to connect your group with a mission experience. The weeks tend to be smaller in attendance and the experience can be even more personalized. You can choose from three different levels of experience.

COST: $320.00 per person
AVAILABLE: Weekly beginning with the first full week in February and ending the third full week in April.


IMPACT II
One day shorter than the WOW program to accommodate travel schedules. Begins Sunday Night with dinner and orientation and ends following Breakfast and morning devotions on Friday morning.

COST: $285.00 per person
AVAILABLE: Weekly beginning with the first full week in February and ending the third full week in April. (This program only available in the Spring.)


Intensive Care Project (ICP)
Same experience as the summer ICP. Begins with dinner on Sunday and concludes with Breakfast and morning devotionals on Thursday.

COST: $265.00 per person
AVAILABLE: First full week in February and ending following the third full week in April.

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College Springs Breakouts
This program is designed specifically for college groups that are looking to experience a mission opportunity as a part of a spring break experience. A group can focus it’s time in one of the other spring programs we offer or you want to add a work experience on the way to or returning from another event. The “Spring Break Out” is a great short term mission experience for the college program looking to immerse itself in service and do so on a limited budget or with limited time. The experience begins with orientation on Saturday night. It concludes after breakfast on Wednesday morning. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday morning are work days. Tuesday afternoon is an optional afternoon off to enjoy Asheville and Western North Carolina. The experience includes all meals beginning with Sunday Breakfast and ending with Breakfast on Wednesday morning.

COST: $195.00 per person

AVAILABLE: Beginning the first full week in February and ending with the third full week in April.

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In Service Work Camps
Available by request, individuals and groups can make our program and facilities their mission experience. We provide the lodging and you provide the sweat and energy to help elevate the quality of our program. You may work in our office as a program intern or you may work in our warehouse. This experience is a great group or personal retreat opportunity. We will work with you to design a flexible and powerful experience. Contact us for availability.

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Personal Renewal Through Mission and Service
An intensive three to five day experience for small groups of 5 to 7 people. Bring your leadership team or adult volunteers. Working with your hearts through service with your hands is an intensive experience led by our executive staff and trained professionals in leading spiritual retreats. Partnering your service opportunity with directed Spiritual Discipline study and work, creates an incredible growth opportunity.

Contact us for availability. Offered in Spring and fall with limited availability.

COST: A per diem based on the group participating is worked out with each team.

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FACILITIES
Comfortable yet simplistic. These words have been used to describe the living environment we work to create with each experience. Our clients, whom we serve, live very simply, and, while in service to them we seek to foster a climate that embraces the “mission of the experience”.

In July 2006, ReCreation purchased and is renovating the 6+ acre, Red Oak School complex in Weaverville, NC.   The complex includes our administrative offices, a worship center/multi-purpose area for morning devotionals, group meeting spaces, sleeping areas, kitchen/dining area, bathrooms and showers.   The complex also has a ball field.



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Where We Work
All mission experiences take place in the Asheville and the Buncombe County area. We also work in Madison County of Western North Carolina.

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AVAILABLE DATES for 2009
Get ahead of the game and book your group now for our 2009 season! Our dates are listed below:

Work Camp Date

What is Available

Cost Per Person*

Open/Closed

March 1-7, 2009

WOW
ICP
Impact II

$320
$265
$285

Open

March 8-14, 2009

WOW
ICP
Impact II

$320
$265
$285

Open

March 15-21, 2009

WOW
ICP
Impact II

$320
$265
$285

Open

March 22-28, 2009

WOW
ICP
Impact II

$320
$265
$285

Open

March 29-April 4, 2009

WOW
ICP
Impact II

$320
$265
$285

Open

April 5-11, 2009

WOW
ICP
Impact II

$320
$265
$285

Open

April 12-18, 2009

WOW
ICP
Impact II

$320
$265
$285

Open

May 24-30, 2009

WOW
ICP

$320
$265

CLOSED

May 31- June 6, 2009

WOW
ICP

$320
$265

CLOSED

June 7-13, 2009

WOW
ICP

$320
$265

Open

June 14-20, 2009

WOW
ICP

$320
$265

Open

June 21-27, 2009

WOW
ICP

$320
$265

Open

June 28- July 4, 2009

WOW
ICP

$320
$265

Open

July 5-11, 2009

WOW
ICP

$320
$265

Open

July 12-18, 2009

WOW
ICP

$320
$265

Open

July 19-25, 2009

WOW
ICP

$320
$265

Open

July 26- August 1, 2009

WOW
ICP

$320
$265

Open

 

*Deposit required to reserve a space for your team.  $500 team deposit if contract received by December 31, 2008 or $75/person deposit if contract received after January 1, 2009.

 

Week Of Works (WOW)
This program is the cornerstone of the ministry. It is a five day/six night experience. Arrival is on Sunday evening for dinner and orientation and departure is following breakfast on Saturday Morning. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday are workdays. Wednesday is a full day off to relax and regroup for the second half of the week.

Intensive Care Project (ICP)
A three day/four night experience. Arrival is on Sunday night for dinner and orientation. Departure is following breakfast and morning worship on Thursday morning. Work days are Monday, Tuesday and a half-day on Wednesday followed by time off to relax and regroup.

IMPACT II
One day shorter than the WOW program to accommodate travel schedules. Begins Sunday Night with dinner and orientation and ends following Breakfast and morning devotions on Friday morning.

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Please contact Josh DeGraff, Director of Operations, to book your group. Please have your desired date and potential participant number ready when you call! You may call our toll-free number: 888-254-1710 or send an email to info@recreationexperiences.org.

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