
The First United Methodist Church of Mount Vernon attended a United Methodist Action Reach-Out Mission by Youth, UM ARMY, work camp June 14-20 in Fairfield, Tex.
Seventeen people from Mount Vernon attended: eleven youth included Chance Haley, Kyle Kennedy, Ryan Fisk, Summer Weatherford, Sean McDonald, James Bell, Jonah Copeland, Wil Radican, Callie Key, Olivia Wafford, and Paisleigh Nelson; one college student, Crystal Forsyth; and five adults, Cindy McDonald, Ken McDonald, Kristi Key, Tark Tarkington, and Carissa Tarkington. For more inforamtion, see the June 25 edition of the Optic-Herald.