From Suburbia to Slums: A Journey to Enrich Spirits. Scott Farwell.
by Farwell, Scott; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 37Family. Publisher: Dallas Morning News, 2003ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Christians -- Attitudes | Church work with the poor | Mexican-American Border Region | Mexico -- Social conditions | Missionaries | Poor -- Mexico | Teenage volunteers in social service | Voluntarism | Youth -- Attitudes | Youth -- Religious lifeDDC classification: 050 Summary: "They set the most ambitious of goals--to change the world. The 48 teenagers from St. Andrew United Methodist Church in Plano, Texas, stood in a circle, hands clasped, eyes squeezed shut....The 442-mile trip to the U.S.-Mexico border, and across, would take nine hours, span a cultural chasm and, church leaders prayed, narrow a gap in understanding between some of Plano's most privileged youth, and the poor." (DALLAS MORNING NEWS) This article chronicles the experiences of youth missionaries in Mexico.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: From Suburbia to Slums: A Journey to Enrich Spirits, July 16, 2003; pp. n.p..
"They set the most ambitious of goals--to change the world. The 48 teenagers from St. Andrew United Methodist Church in Plano, Texas, stood in a circle, hands clasped, eyes squeezed shut....The 442-mile trip to the U.S.-Mexico border, and across, would take nine hours, span a cultural chasm and, church leaders prayed, narrow a gap in understanding between some of Plano's most privileged youth, and the poor." (DALLAS MORNING NEWS) This article chronicles the experiences of youth missionaries in Mexico.
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