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Georgia pastor starts outreach for prisoners' children

by:   11/9/2004

Associated Press: More than 45,000 inmates pack Georgia's prisons. That statistic got one minister wondering, what happens to their kids?

The Rev. Diane Parrish decided to find out. After years of prison counseling, and working with women parishioners at Mount Bethel United Methodist Church in Marietta, Ga., Parrish started a ministry for prisoners' children.

In 1999, Parrish held a camp for fourth- and fifth-grade children whose parents are incarcerated. Called Camp Hope 4 Kidz, Parrish saw it as a way to tell these children they have not been abandoned and that they don't have to repeat their parents' mistakes. Some children have both parents behind bars.

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