As a young politician, when I started going to black churches, for the first time I heard people refer to funerals as homegoings.

作为一个年轻的政客，我最初到黑人教堂做礼拜时，第一次听到人们将葬礼称为“归家”。

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Many churches send teams of young people on short-term mission trips.

很多教会都差遣年青人组成的团队作短期的宣教。

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Soon, other churches heard of the young girl with the beautiful, deep voice.

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Increasingly, those churches are empty of young faces.

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In a new report, Churches Together Around Ludlow said young people and the elderly were most affected by council cuts and poor job opportunities.

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Except at weddings and the christenings that sometimes followed them, there were no young among the congregations of the three churches, and with nostalgia Bartholomew now and again remembered Youth Reach and Youth Action and the Saturday rambles to Kilmashogue and Two Rock.

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