First Presbyterian Church used its 40 percent share of the Pentecost Offering to help send children in need to a Salvation Army summer camp, Camp Paradise Valley, located in north-central Tennessee near the Kentucky border. Christian education is a major focus of the weeklong camp. Some of the campers were unfamiliar with the Bible, but children who did not have a Bible were provided one. This was the first opportunity some of the children had ever had for an outdoor camping experience. A chartered, air-conditioned bus transported the children on what would otherwise have been an uncomfortably warm trip that took several hours.

“One of the local Salvation Army leaders, an extremely devoted woman,attends our church occasionally,” writes Cindy Barnett. “She recently received a ‘Child Advocate of the Year’ award from, I believe, the state of Tennessee.”

Cindy Barnett
MissionCommittee co-chair
First Presbyterian Church
Paris, Tennessee
(731) 642-2962
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