Outreach program preparing for outdoor revival and marching in south Monroe to change lives [Video]

MONROE, La. (KNOE) – An outreach program is gearing up for a weekend of gospel music performances and marching in South Monroe neighborhoods.

The Highways & Hedges Organization is hosting a three-day event beginning Friday (June 14) at 7 p.m. Leaders of the outreach organization spent Friday afternoon putting out chairs and setting up the stage outside at the Henrietta W. Johnson Community Center for night one of its revival and “Community March of Hope.”

“We come to bring hope to them and let them know – even though that they’re in some of the most toughest times of their lives – if they look to Jesus and they look to God; that God is able to heal them and God is able to put them on the right path; even the young men that may be toting the guns, and you know, may be bound by many different things,” …