Life Poindexter Research Paper

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After graduating, I did not work with children as much as I had before or even did volunteer work until my sophomore year when I got involved in Life Poindexter. In Life Poindexter, I did work helping clean neighborhoods and in a way be a missionary to the people of the Poindexter area. While helping with a local ministry, We Will Go Ministries, I had the pleasure of meeting Ms. Bonnie who talked about her life of being a missionary after working for ministry offices in management. She had stated that her education was still helpful to her even after becoming a missionary and that anything you learn can be useful even though it does not seem it relates to what you are currently doing. During that time, I and my sister were starting to question

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