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Floroidians Work in Mud at Henderson Point
Pensacola Youth Rebuild Miss. Church
By BETSY HALSTEAD
(Tlmes-Picayune Staff Correspondent)
HENDERSON POINT, Miss.-Now think for a minute what it: would be like if you were a teen-ager and faced with what; to do on a Saturday, a day free from school.
Would you want to go to the beach, or maybe a football game, or maybe just sleep late and watch television?
A group of 70 teen-agers chose to spend Saturday rebuilding the Beach Baptist Church here.
The teen-agers, with 20 other adults, arrived in Long Beach late Friday night from the First Baptist Church in Pensacola,
Fla. They spent the night in the Long Beach First Baptist Church, sleeping in sleeping bags they had brought along.
GET UP EARLY Early Saturday morning they were up, and after a Red Crosssupplied breakfast were at work re-Duilding the church in Henderson Point.	r	*	*:
But why would a teen-agerJ give up his Saturday to rebuild SEVENTY teenagers and 20 adults from the a church hundreds of miles First Baptist Church in Pensacola, Fla., got away from his own home? to work early Saturday on rebuilding the
“This was a good chance Beach Baptist Church at Henderson Point,
to show that churches do go ,---------------------------------------------------
out and do something,” said ,
16-year-old Eleanor Kennedy, of Pensacola.
Eleanor looked tired, as she rested for a moment on the step of a ladder next to the church.
'She said she had been working J since 7:30 that morning, shovelling mud, sweeping mud, vacu-i uming mud from a carpet in 'the church, and doing some nailing of wood and paneling.
“1 also felt sorry for these ■people,” she said. “They lost just about everything they had.”
FEELS GOOD i Sixteen-year-old Nancy Ple-tiz, the daughter of the church’s .minister, said working on the ;church had made her feel good.
"It makes me feel good”
,she said, “to know that I am helping instead of just bumming around on the beach. I’m having just as much fun anyhow.”
Paul iRoyal, minister of music at the Pensacola Church and one of the leaders of the group, explained that the idea for rebuilding the church came from ;J. W. Brister, superintendent of,
—Photo bv The Times-Plcayune.
Miss. Dressed in work clothes and supplied with brooms and paint brushes the teenagers cleared the church for services Sunday morning.
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