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Forsyth County high schoolers to embark on mission trip to Philippines
Projects focus on elementary schools damaged by 2013 typhoon
Trip participants paint bathrooms and the new rainwater collection system that provides fresh and running water.
Trip participants paint bathrooms and the new rainwater collection system that provides fresh and running water. - photo by For the Forsyth County News
Though Chad Ward valued the mission work he and a group of Forsyth County high schoolers did annually at the Quest Fellowship Church in Cebu City, Philippines, he wanted to do more. “Initially, we had been going there to do various projects,” Ward said. “But I said to [Quest’s Pastor] Les Tilka, ‘I don’t want to do what we usually do if there’s more we can do.’” That was four years ago.