First Christian youth accept challenge

So, he joined with Jacob Holloran, another student at The Dalles High School, to organize a yard sale March 18 and 19. Proceeds will be given to Grace House and Mercy House to help recovering methamphetamine addicts get new teeth.

“God said ‘Go’, we went,” Holloran said. “He’s in charge of the outcome. They’re [CIY] all about kingdom work and what you can do in your community to help out. And they’ll give you a little card and if you open it, you’re committed to doing it.”

Replacing teeth can cost thousands of dollars.

“It’s expensive and we’ll probably make a really small chunk out of what a guy would actually need to get a full mouth replacement done but whatever we can do to help,” Holloran said. “[We’re] getting started. We can go big in the future. When you’re faithful with little, you can be faithful with much. If people look at this and say, ‘That kind of worked,’ maybe we could get more people inspired and do a bigger and better one in the future.”

The yard sale will take place next Friday and Saturday from 7 a.m. until around 2 p.m. on the church lawn at 909 Court St. in The Dalles.

Holloran and Hanson have received a piano, sofas, desks and a freezer. They’ll be at Cornerstone Church on Mt. Hood St. Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to collect items. Organizers of an annual yard sale in Mosier have also told the youth they’ll donate whatever doesn’t sell.

Anyone wanting to donate call Holloran at 541-296-3417 or Hanson at 541-993-1396.

“I know personally I have a lot of junk lying around the house and I bet there’s a lot of other people that have a lot of junk laying around at their house,” Holloran said.

Caleb Morris, youth pastor at First Christian Church, is proud of his students for stepping up.

“It’s awesome,” Morris said. “I love to see my kids step up and do these things. That’s the whole point of doing all of this for me is that they will latch on to this idea of doing ministry and take off. That’s one of the things I wish I would have tried to do more when I was their age so that’s one of the things that I try and encourage them to do so the fact that they are doing this is great.”