What is JP all About?

The Jeremiah Project is a home-repair ministry specializing in providing short-term mission trips for middle school student participants. 

History
 
The Jeremiah Project was founded in 1997 by three Youth Ministers from the Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church. Todd Allen Freneaux, the Rev. Abi Foerster, and Barbara Russell all felt there was a tremendous need for a Christ-centered mission trip experience designed specifically for middle school students. Selecting Jeremiah 1:7 from the Old Testament of the Bible as our foundational scripture, the Jeremiah Project was born.

But the Lord said to me, "Do not say, 'I am only a youth,' because everywhere I send you, you shall go, and all that I command you, you shall speak." - Jeremiah 1:7 (NAS)

The first Jeremiah Project work camp, based in Winchester, Virginia, was held in the summer of 1998 with nine churches participating. The two work weeks were, in a word, INCREDIBLE!

As we prepared for our second summer of mission work in 1999, we were overwhelmed with the response from churches wanting to bring their Junior High students. Work camps filled in January for the summer of 1999.

We added a third mission week for the summer of 2000 and a fourth week for the summer of 2002. JP opened a second ministry site in West Virginia in the summer of 2003 and operated nine weeks of camp in the summer of 2007.

Mission Statement

The Jeremiah Project is called to:
SERVE God's people,
EMPOWER middle school students to be servant leaders,
AFFIRM them as children of God,
ENCOURAGE them to embrace a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and
SUPPORT them in their desire to become Christian disciples.

All are Welcome! Our work camps are open to all Christian organizations. Although the founders are United Methodists, the Jeremiah Project is not a ministry of the United Methodist Church. All denominations are welcome.

The Jeremiah Project Statement of Faith

Preamble

We are an inter-denominational ministry and all those who participate in the ongoing work and witness of the Jeremiah Project shall be in sympathy with its central purpose of proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ. In order to qualify for office, members of the board of directors, members of the regular and volunteer staff shall subscribe to the following articles of faith:

Article I

We believe that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior.

Article II

We believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth. And in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; the third day he rose from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of the Father Almighty. From there he will come again to judge the living and the dead.

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy universal Church, the fellowship of believers, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.

Article III

We believe the Apostle’s Creed and the Bible contain all the critical elements sufficient for an understanding of the Christian Faith.

Article IV

Our foundational scripture is Jeremiah 1:7.