We had 500 smiling faces and eager hands preparing 20,000 meals for Stop Hunger Now. New to the orientation line up was a special local project to assemble backpacks full of food and school supplies for elementary school students under the wings of the Baptist Fellowship of Angier.
While the service projects aren't the definition of service learning, they give students a taste of service and get them thinking about it. The projects are the tip of the service learning iceberg.
The Class of 2014 will be the first class to enter Campbell with the service learning program. Together, the students and program will grow up together in Buies Creek. I've watched the incoming class and am incredibly hopeful that service learning at Campbell will flourish through these 1,000 bright and passionate students.
I spoke to the parents again and offered the same words I did at the first orientation session. My shaky public speaking abilities always extinguish any fantasies that parents will run up to me, asking for my autograph and rounding off questions about service learning. A few parents, however, did catch me during lunch to say they appreciated my schpiel. I don't say that to brag about myself-- I say it to point out that when parents think something is important, they're going to tell their kids about it.
Now that the entire freshman class knows kind of what service learning is, the next step is to develop the concept among them and tend to our mustard seed of a program.
Above (left to right) incoming Campbell freshmen pack food bags for Stop Hunger now, prepare backpacks, and seal the bags for Stop Hunger Now. The 500 students packed 20,000 bags and prepared 200 bags of food and 40 backpacks to touch people across town and around the world.
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