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"Roughly 6,500 Teenage Girls from around the world [will participate] in the Acteens convention this week.

Started in 1970 by the [Baptist] Woman's Missionary Union, Acteens is a missions organization for girls in grades 7-12. The group hosts conventions in different cities every four to five years. 'Our purpose is for girls to focus on the fact that God has a plan for the world and a unique plan for each of their lives,' said Andrea Mullins, a convention organizer. The Western Wall, one of Judaism's most holy sites, [is] part of the convention's Holy Land Flight, just one of many mock international cultural experiences the students [are] exposed to. ...

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