Meet our Team Leaders for the summer

Last week was our Project Orientation Trip to New York City for our summer team leaders. We had a good time. The picture @ top is of our summer team leaders with Mission to the World & Operation Exodus. Left to Right - Troy (from Westminster, already getting practice with the faithful blow horn), Adam (who will be a tutor for Exodus and helping with teams), John (From Lansdale Pres) and Corey (from Trinity Pres). The bottom picture is of me from last year with Stephanie.

History of Opearation Exodus

In 1988, Luis Iza, Jr., a businessman and Sunday school teacher in a local church, was approached by an impoverished mother whose 12-year-old son was living in fear for his life due to the danger and harassment he faced after he refused to join a gang from the neighborhood. Greatly moved to help, Mr. Iza shared this child’s plight with a boarding school. Equally moved, the school readily accepted the boy on a scholarship basis. As a result of the positive changes education make in this child’s life, as well as the violence and lack of academic challenge in the Washington Heights schools, Mr. Iza and a group of parents from a Latino church founded Operation Exodus Inner City.