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Presbyterian Church at Bound Brook
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 3, 2005

Bound Brook Youth Group Offers Water, and Hope, for Aids-stricken Community in Zambia

Bound Brook, N.J. – The Senior-high Youth Group at the Bound Brook Presbyterian Church takes its mission seriously. In 2005 it raised $3,000 to build a home for a family in Zambia. In 2006 the group has committed to raising $12,000 to build a badly needed fresh-water well that will support as many as 30 families in a community where Aids has claimed the lives of one in four residents.

These young people are always out to find a place where they can do good in the world,” says Linda Owens, Interim Youth Pastor at the church. “I traveled to Zambia last year, and when I showed our group pictures of the house they funded they couldn’t wait to find the next project.”

The group is raising money that will go directly toward one specific project in Zambia through a US organization called.

About the Presbyterian Church at Bound Brook
The Presbyterian Church at Bound Brook has been part of the Raritan Valley community for more than three hundred years. Its familiar tower has become a landmark at the corner of Union and Mountain Avenues in Bound Brook. Today, the church has a congregation of more than 600 members who serve the local community with youth organizations, hospitality programs, caring ministries for the aged and homebound, food programs, extended community and worldwide mission activities.
 
Contacts
Rev. Linda Owens, Pastor
The Presbyterian Church at Bound Brook
409 Mountain Ave
Bound Brook, NJ 08805
(732) 356-3575
 

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