MIssions News: Outreaches

(Fresno, CA)  The largest inland city in California, Fresno, is now home to 1,100 teens camped in a make-shift tent city on the lawn of People's Church in Fresno.  The teens had planned to visit Mexico for missionary work, but a recent crime wave along the Mexican border with the United States forced them to rethink their plans.

Rather than cancel their trip, they decided to spend their spring break performing missionary work in California's Central Valley, a large flat valley that dominates the central portion of California.  They will be performing community service projects, ministering to children, cleaning and repairing homes in poor neighborhoods, painting over graffiti and more.

One of the adult volunteers found a silver lining in the change of plans:  There is not enough press coverage of kids doing good things, he observed.  The media focuses too much on kids on drugs and acts of violence. 

The missionary teens have been featured in local media, with one local television station performing live interviews and providing daily updates on their outreach.

One teen volunteer said that she couldn't think of a better way to spend her spring break.  "It's really fun; you have all these people here for one purpose and it's amazing.  I couldn't think of another place I'd rather be than here."

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