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Diversity & Distinction; Asian American Association; PBHA; Refugee Youth Summer/Term Enrichment...
...event is called See You at the Pole. According to Doug Clark, field-ministries director at its San Diego-based coordinating collective, the National Network of Youth Ministries, last Wednesday the group mobilized "more than 3 million" Christian teens in 50 states to schoolyard prayer. Witnesses and local organizers confirm that 110 showed up at Ripon High School in Ripon, Calif.; 50 at Nashua High in Nashua, N.H.; and a total of 4,871 at 63 schools in San Antonio, Texas. Clark's figures seem a bit overoptimistic, but even at half strength, the national event, which has been building...
...originated in the spring of 1990 in Burleson, Texas, when several public school students told youth minister Billy Beacham that they felt "burdened" by God to pray at their school flagpoles. Southern Baptist state youth evangelism coordinator Chuck Flowers decided to try a Texas-wide version that fall. Beacham remembers predicting 5,000 participants; 48,000 showed. The next year the event went countrywide, and the National Network, which acts as an information clearinghouse for some 100 youth evangelical groups, became involved. Says Clark: "It was like lighting dry brush with a match." The religion-tracking Barna Research Group tallied...
...Manson away from his industrial-rock roots and moves him closer to mainstream heavy metal. Gone is the bludgeoning attack of his earlier albums; here he finds room for more melody, even some hooks. Beneath the makeup, Manson is still rock's most piercing critic--blasting, among other things, youth culture, rock music and conservatives. Manson fans, fear not: his weird new look will still strike revulsion in the hearts of your parents...
...Alumni Representative Nicole K. Sherwood'00, who helped organize the visit, has known themayor for years, and said he is "a shining beaconof pride and hope" to the youth of New York...