Teen Challenge executive director walks to raise funds, awareness

Jack Smart, front right, executive director of Teen Challenge International of Mid-America, and E. Paul Jackson, front left, a charter board member for Teen Challenge, lead a group of Teen Challenge students including Eugene Taconi, back left, Joel Brown, center left, and Dean Mullins, center right, along Lexington Avenue in Cape Girardeau on Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. Smart has gone on an 80-mile walking tour around Southeast Missouri to raise money and awareness for Teen Challenge. Thursday's 10-mile trek took Smart from Walmart in Jackson to La Croix United Methodist Church in Cape Girardeau, where the rest of the group joined him. They then walked to back to the Teen Challenge campus.