Hollywood Week-Long Program
This
information is provided to help your group plan for the DOOR-Hollywood
(also known as Hollywood Urban Project.) Registration procedures, Schedules, Cost, Open House Weekends, Transportation, Insurance, and Other logistics.
If you are considering a week this year, please contact our National Office Christie Sears or 303-295-3667 for availability and general questions. Or contact City Director Matthew Schmitt or (323) 872-3174 for city specific questions.
Who Can Participate?
The DOOR-Hollywood program is designed for participants from high- school age and beyond and is open to all denominations. Middle-schoolers are allowed, but please know that some agencies are not comfortable with young teens and pre-teens, so it may require a little more planning. 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 combined with other small groups in a given week.
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 two to three-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,
while also being humbly expectant that God's will shall prevail, so we
all must be prepared to submit our best-laid plans and see what God has
in mind for us.
Examples of service assignments may be:
preparing and serving meals at a soup kitchen; helping with homeless
adult and children's programs; cleaning kitchens and shelters; urban
gardening and restoration; 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?
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 is $295. This covers food, lodging, materials for service experiences, and program administration. Our registration process has several stages:
- Registration and Deposit: Return the group registration form and a deposit of $75 per person to reserve your dates. This deposit will be applied, in its entirety, toward your total group cost and will hold your requested date.
- Second payment:
- For groups coming in the summer, between May and August: $100 per person payment is due on March 1.
- For groups coming other times in the year: $100 payment is due 10 weeks prior to your trip.
This payment is per person. This means that if you deposit for 10 people and only bring nine, you lose the $100 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 and helps us to determine final space availability.
Upon receipt of this payment, we will send you an orientation package via email, including a statement of funds received and balance due 3 weeks before 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 Christie in the National Office for payment schedule.
- Should your group need to cancel, please see our Cancellation Policy.
