Article: WORLD CHANGERS TACKLE TASKS IN THIS NECK OF THE WOODS

CHEYENNE -- Traveling here from seven states, 350 World Changers set out Monday to change this small part of the world.

By Friday, they will have made improvements to 30 homes in Cheyenne. Tasks include putting on new siding and roofs, installing new windows and doors, and adding a porch or two.

J.J Leaper, 15, from Sentinel, Okla., said this is the first time he's worked with the World Changers.

Leaper said he joined the group "to work on houses for people who can't do it themselves, and witness to them about Christ."

This marks the second year World Changers, a student initiative of the North American Mission Board, has come to Cheyenne.

Though the World Changers organization was ...

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