“As many youth leaders know, one of the best ways to get teens to look at the world with the eyes of Christ is to take the group on a mission trip to work with folks of a different culture,” says movie reviewer, Rev.Bruce Batchelor-Glader. “You go out to serve others and return home realizing that you were blessed by the people you came to serve.”
McFarland, USA tells the true-life story of a high school coach with a history of anger management issues, who accepts a job in 1987 as a physical education teacher at a high school with primarily Mexican immigrant students. He finds himself and his family in an awkward place with a Latino lifestyle that is new to them.
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