Junior Youth Spiritual Empowerment in the Columbia Gorge
Community members in the Gorge are endevouring to bring out the best qualities and talents of middle-school age youth in service to their communities. Called the junior youth spiritual empowerment program, it consists of a small group of friends, usually some 10 to 20 members in a neighborhood or school, who come together once a week to study materials that help the group to identify and develop the attitudes and skills people need in order to to serve their communities in a meaningful way.