Hope Award: Campus Clubs teaches poor children about the value of work, and their own value in Christ: ‘Just because you’re in the ‘hood doesn’t mean the ‘hood is in you’

Jamie Dean, World Magazine

MACON, Ga.—For some three dozen middle-school students packed into a tiny chapel attached to First Presbyterian Church (FPC) in downtown Macon, Ga., summer mornings at day camp don’t begin with chipper songs or lighthearted games. Instead, as warm sunlight streams through the light-blue panes of stained-glass windows, Tony Lowden begins the chapel service for inner-city kids on a much darker note: childhood pregnancy.

Lowden is executive director of Campus Clubs, a Christian ministry for low-income and at-risk students in Macon.

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