Loving on Lynchburg
Students spend their Saturday helping to remodel the Boys & Girls Club
Liberty University’s Community Care Initiative (CCI), an extension of the Center for Christian / Community Service (CSER), sent out teams Saturday, Oct. 17 to help the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lynchburg remodel their facility.
Fellowship — Liberty students worked together to fix up a local community organization. Photo credit: Joel Coleman
CCI faculty member Will Honeycutt coordinated the event.
According to Honeycutt, the event had been planned since the club came for the CSER fair in August.
“They asked for two teams of 15 students,” Honeycutt said. “(They wanted the) first to go in the morning to do the demolishing work, breaking down and preparing for the next step, which was painting and remodeling, and that was in the evening. I broke it up into two teams in the morning and two teams in the evening. Four care team leaders recruited their team members.”
One of the care team leaders, Jacob Sherrill, said he enjoyed taking part in the project.
“The Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lynchburg is an incredible organization seeking to make a difference in the lives of students in the community by helping them graduate high school,” Sherrill said. “The care team on Saturday was blessed with the opportunity to help an organization committed to serving others. Although the painting was difficult, the project was a wonderful experience. It allowed several fellow believers to serve alongside one another for the glory of God. Ultimately this project brought glory to God through the service and fellowship of fellow believers.”
What makes CCI different than other Christian services such as Campus Serve, Scaremare and 90.9FM The Light is its variety of different projects. The types of projects depend largely on people’s needs. Also, students are not required to serve consistently for a period of time, but they can sign up for a project whenever they feel called.
Recruiting students for CCI is more difficult this year because there are only four hall meetings per semester.
“There used to be a really good means for communicating care projects (in hall meetings),” Honeycutt said. “So we’re struggling with even getting teams of three to five together, and that’s never happened until this semester. One of the things that we do is we announce it in big freshman classes (such as biblical worldview or evangelism). I just want the care team leaders to communicate with their friends, their circle of acquaintances and influences to recruit from that.”
Honeycutt added that the CCI opportunities can be found on the CSER website.
The goal of CCI is to help those in need while also demonstrating faith in Christ.
“You can serve without caring, but you cannot care without serving,” Honeycutt said.
PHUONG is a news reporter.