Hollywood Week-Long Program
This
information is provided to help your group plan for the DOOR-Hollywood
(also known as Hollywood Urban Project) experience. It provides
background on the DOOR-Hollywood program, specifics on who can
participate, registration procedures, schedules, cost, Open House Weekends, transportation, insurance, and other logistics.
If you are considering a trip in the fall of 2008, please contact
the City Director of your preferred city or Christie Sears or 303-295-3667
If you are considering a trip in the year 2009, please see our 2009 updates.
Who Can Participate?
The DOOR-Hollywood program is designed for participants from high-school age and beyond and is open to all denominations. We ask that one adult sponsor accompany every five youth who make up the group. For a week-long experience, DOOR-Hollywood can accommodate groups of up to 50 total participants (youth and sponsors). Smaller groups may be paired with other small groups, a practice that allows participants from different places and denominations to share in service.
What Will You Do?
A
typical week in Hollywood begins on arrival Sunday evening after supper
and ends with departure after lunch on Friday. A one-to two-hour
orientation/logistics session Sunday evening helps prepare everyone for
the week. Your group will be divided into work teams, (4-6 participants
with one adult sponsor as designated leader) that are also your meal
teams. Meal teams are responsible for preparing and cleaning up after
all meals eaten together by the group. Groceries, menus, and cooking
instructions are provided and a DOOR-Hollywood staff person is on hand
for reference.
Once assigned to work and meal
teams, participants generally stay with those same teams for the week.
Work teams usually spend each day at a different service assignment.
However, due to the nature of some assignments, there are cases where
we will ask the same work team to stay at a site for more than one day.
Our goal is for all participants to have a variety of experiences that
they can share with each other.
Examples of service assignments are: preparing and serving meals at a
soup kitchen; helping with homeless children’s programs, cleaning
feeding kitchens and shelters, urban gardening; meeting and listening
to groups and individuals who are working for change in the city,
conversing and worshiping with city folks.
What Will The Schedule Be Like?
To see a Typical Week-Long Schedule
Although the schedule varies and is flexible, a typical day may go as follows:
6:30 to 8:00 a.m. |
Wake up, prepare, eat and clean up breakfast |
8:00 to 8:30 a.m. |
Quiet Time/Bible Study |
7:00 to 9:00 a.m. |
Travel to service assignment (time of departure varies with each site) |
9:00 to 3:00 p.m. |
Service assignment |
3:00 to 7:00 p.m. |
Return to host site, clean-up, free time |
5:00 to 5:45 p.m. |
Meal team prepares supper |
5:45 to 6:45 p.m. |
Supper and clean-up |
7:00 to 9:00 p.m. |
Evening session/free time |
Evening
sessions include worship, presentations, and group reflection. Thursday
evening is set aside for a time together to help participants reflect
on and process what they have seen, felt, and learned during the course
of each day. This is perhaps the most important time of the week.
Issues raised are addressed in light of our calling as Christians to
love others and to respond to those in need.
On
Wednesday evening a formal reflection time is not scheduled. DOOR does
not provide supper on this evening so most groups choose to eat out and
spend the evening seeing more of Hollywood. (Please keep in mind that
some work teams may not finish their assignments until early evening).
Cost and Registration for the Hollywood Week Long Program
Participant cost for 2008 is $275. This covers food, lodging, materials for service experiences, t-shirts, and program administration. Our registration process has several stages:
- Registration:Return the group application and the non-refundable $75 per person registration fee. This deposit will be applied, in its entirety, toward your total group cost and will hold your requested date.
- Deposit:
- For groups coming in the spring, between February 1 and May 31: $100 per person deposit is due on January 15.
- For
groups coming in the summer, between June 1 and August 31: $100 per
person deposit is due on March 1 (groups smaller than 40).
If your group is larger than 40 people and you sign up before January 1, 2008, your $100 deposit is due February 1, 2008. - For groups coming between September 1 and January 31: $100 deposit is due 10 weeks prior to your trip.
This deposit is per person. This means that if you deposit for 10 people and only bring nine, you lose the deposit for that one person. You may increase your numbers, if space is available, with a telephone call to us. Again this deposit is non-refundable. Upon receipt of this deposit, we will send you an orientation package, including a statement of funds received and balance due upon arrival. The orientation packet is intended to prepare your group for the DOOR experience, and we strongly recommend you take the time to go over it with your whole group.
- Balance is due 3 weeks before arrival.
- All funds received must be in U.S. currency.
- For groups registering after Mar 1, please contact the Christie in the National Office for deposit schedule.
