With three weeks left in the school year, community leaders already have ignited a movement to better provide Henry County's needy youth with proper school supplies for next school year.
"The impact that we'll be able to make will be determined the power of our focus," said Ritchie Miller, pastor of Avalon Church in McDonough.
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