I'm in Parker, Colorado, visiting family. Stepson, Taylor Williams, Director of Student Ministries at Parker Evangelical Presbyterian Church is headed out with a group of teens on Tuesday for the Boston area where they'll spend the better part of two weeks working in impoverished neighborhoods to offer a helping hand to those in need--painting, construction, clean-up and much more.
Taylor's team is only one of thousands of church groups this summer that will be leaving hometowns to travel out of their home states to get down and dirty helping others.
You say, "Why go far away to do what probably could be done next door?"
Because the travel experience itself is a part of the ministry with these kids--and this is an experience that will stay with them for the rest of their lives, and someday their children will likewise pay it forward a generation down the line.
So let's pray for all of these young people. They are the Church at work. They are our Faith At Work.
Godspeed!
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