Posted on 03/12/2006 7:14:22 AM PST by MineralMan
College students are replacing the sun, sand and surf of a typical spring break with the mud, muck, mold and mildew of Katrina relief, according to a campus ministry spokesman.
Campus Crusade for Christ has drawn thousands of students from campuses across the nation to spend their respective spring breaks helping Gulf Coast communities recover and rebuild. The campus ministry had originally planned on 8,000 participants but drew another 2,000 student registrants to the Katrina-devastated lands.
Students flew and traveled by bus for up to 36 hours from such cities as Berkeley, Calif., and Buffalo, N.Y., for the "rolling" spring break - a six-week period that began the last week of February. Participants have been cleaning up and rebuilding homes in New Orleans and Pass Christian, Miss. - ground zero for America's worst natural disaster.
Sleeping in tents during their weeklong spring breaks, students were paid a visit at one of the camps by evangelist Franklin Graham who is in New Orleans for the Celebration of Hope festival being held this weekend.
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Gives me hope in at least a small portion of the up-coming generation..
I think there are lots of kids who deserve your hope and appreciation. They just don't make the news. I'm quite sure the good kids outnumber the bad ones by a large margin.
Your talking about a generation that is also shedding it's blood for you in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are, again, the greatest generation.
"Here's a good story..."I agree.I'd think this would make a good human interest story.What are the odds this will make the evening news?
"What are the odds this will make the evening news?
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Depends where you are. It was on the local news here. Some students from a local college were joining that group. The point is not whether it makes the news. Few good news stories do. The point is that a bunch of kids are NOT drinking, having sex, and otherwise behaving badly during Spring Break. That's the point.
The news doesn't cover much of that sort of thing. You can change that by contacting your local news provider and insisting that they do so. If enough people do that, you'll see this news.
Whether it's on the news or not, it's happening.
It's all in the publicity. I'm sure there are agnostic, atheist, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Rastafarian, Zoroastrian, Unitarian, LDS, and even Flying Spaghetti Monsterist students out there too; but not getting mentioned...
I did a search on Google News for "alternative spring break" (no quotes). Turns out there are a lot of MSM outlets covering this story. It's easy to say that they're not covering it, when they actually are. It's good to check.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-32,GGLD:en&spell=1&tab=wn&q=alternative+spring+break&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&start=10
Good eye MM.Your a real stud.Thanks for the feedback:)
I have no idea what you are talking about. It's a good story about some good kids who are doing something worthwhile for spring break.
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