Lake Highlands students who otherwise could not afford it, attended a weeklong summer camp in Branson, MO, courtesy The New Room, a Lake Highlands-based offshoot of Lake Highlands United Methodist Church, and Kids Across America, a nonprofit dedicated to “empowering urban youth and their mentors through camping and education.” Lake Highlands resident and The New Room ministry leader Jill Goad helped organize the program. “It is a great opportunity for the kids, and we are all so excited,” Goad said prior to the trip. Advocate photographer Rasy Ran was on the scene at the pre-dawn sendoff outside The New Room on Skillman at Whitehurst.

 

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