Busy as a bee

I can't believe it's been almost a month since Service Learning @ Campbell's last post! Time has flown and the last few weeks have been full of activities and blossoming ideas. Campbell students are in full swing, the football team has lost two games, and it's 95 degrees out with low humidity-- all signs that autumn is settling in Buies Creek.

Check out how faith, learning, and service have been excelling on campus:

- The first annual 9/11 Day of Service was a hit. Seventy students woke up early Saturday morning to give back in honor of the soldier(s) in their lives. All six projects went well and we can't wait to see what happens next year!

- The poverty miniseries is coming together. Speakers formerly in poverty or currently working with the impoverished will explore with us how poverty is more than just being poor. Check out the Facebook page for dates and times.

- If you want to get involved in tutoring or mentoring, you're at the right place at the right time. We're developing a service to help you figure out which organization is the best fit for you based on the mutual goals, schedules, and abilities of you and a tutoring or mentoring organization.


- Driving down Route 55 between Buies Creek and Angier will show you that it's picking season for North Carolina's migrant workers. The NC Farmworkers Project needs volunteers at its Thursday night clinics (May - October) to facilitate the clinics, present health information, translate, and just spend time with the migrant workers. If any of those activities are up your alley, give me a shout and we'll set you up to impact our community.


Lastly, as the temperatures cool and the holidays come around, I encourage you to step outside your own world and take a look at what others need. It could be something as simple as your neighbor needing a free babysitter for a night, or perhaps a family at church could use some help buying groceries this week. Or maybe, as we'll learn through the poverty miniseries, that needs related to poverty aren't always financial. Be a friend to the lady on your street who lives alone or be a role model to the too-skinny little kids always hanging out where they shouldn't be. Your purpose on earth is not to live for yourself.

This camel is also busy as a bee.