In Mexico, Teens Shed Their Privilege, Get to Work. 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 | House construction | Mexican-American Border Region | Mexico -- Social conditions | Missionaries | Poor -- Mexico | Teenage volunteers in social service | Voluntarism | Youth -- Attitudes | Youth -- Religious lifeDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Far from the wallpapered alcoves of St. Andrew United Methodist Church, across the placid but deceptively powerful Rio Grande, through Nuevo Laredo's suicidal merging traffic, and along the fringe of a neighborhood with open sewers, 48 young missionaries from Plano, Texas, arrived, unceremoniously, at lots 10 and 13." (DALLAS MORNING NEWS) This article discusses the lessons learned by the missionary teens as they built two houses for poor families in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: In Mexico, Teens Shed Their Privilege, Get to Work, July 16, 2003; pp. n.p..
"Far from the wallpapered alcoves of St. Andrew United Methodist Church, across the placid but deceptively powerful Rio Grande, through Nuevo Laredo's suicidal merging traffic, and along the fringe of a neighborhood with open sewers, 48 young missionaries from Plano, Texas, arrived, unceremoniously, at lots 10 and 13." (DALLAS MORNING NEWS) This article discusses the lessons learned by the missionary teens as they built two houses for poor families in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
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