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Youth group raises money for missions

Good Shepherd Episcopal Church’s Episcopal Youth Community raised $3,050 at their Feb. 15 Feast of St. Cocoa fundraiser for Holy Cross Anglican School in Belize, the site of their 2008 and 2009 mission trips. The youth group entertained about 200 people with songs, skits and instrumental pieces, and provided an array of homemade chocolate desserts in honor of “St. Cocoa.”

The following day, Director of Youth Ministries Nancy Schorr presented a check to Bishop Philip Wright, of Belize, to hand-deliver to the school in its third year of operation and directed by Anglican missionaries from the United States.

Twenty-two Senior EYC members, along with nine adults, traveled to Belize last summer to construct a library/computer lab for the school, which serves 512 of the poorest of the poor on the island of Ambergris Caye. They also took with them 1,500 pounds of children’s books and school supplies donated by the Good Shepherd congregation. The high school group will return to the school in June 2009.

Middle school students in Junior EYC will do Hurricane Ike home repair in Texas City for their 2009 mission trip.

In addition to games, fun get-togethers, topical discussions and Bible study, Good Shepherd’s youth groups maintain a steady schedule of outreach activities, from preparing breakfast for the street community at Lord of the Streets Episcopal Church in midtown Houston to collecting and delivering Christmas gifts to the International Seafarers’ Center at the Port of Houston.

http://www.hcnonline.com/articles/2009/03/11/kingwood_observer/news/10stcocoa.txt

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