In the News ... "Let's try something new - how about news of kids on mission trips?"

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• I’m asking the parents of these kids to speak to your event leader and encourage them to contact me

By Carl Kieke, Contributor
• Abilene Reporter-News

ABILENE, TEXAS - Many youth groups slow their activities during the summer, making it more difficult to find things to write about. But there is one activity that picks up noticeably during the summer: Church mission trips.

I haven’t really covered that area, since we have a “church page” each week. But these trips don’t usually make it into that page, as it is only once a week and has to cover just about all church-related items.

Putting those two items together, it seems this is a good place to tell our readers about some more things that our “all right” kids are doing with their summer free time ...

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