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Church conference to raise money for mission work
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Cardboard boxes become huts Thursday at First Presbyterian Church of Gainesville’s annual World Mission Conference. The three-day series of events begins today. Volunteers worked on turning half the church’s gym into an African village designed to teach children about life abroad. - photo by NAT GURLEY
Gainesville First Presbyterian Church will kick off its 15th annual World Mission Conference today with the aim of raising more than $93,000 to fund its missions to some of the most poverty-stricken parts of the globe. This year’s conference promises to be bigger and better than ever before, with an expanded schedule, new events and new ways to get involved designed to suit any and all participants. The conference is built on a solid foundation of past triumph, annually raising between $88,000 and $95,000.