On Jan. 14, Trevecca will participate in the MLK Day of Service, hosted by Fisk University.
More than 300 students from Trevecca, Belmont, Lipscomb, Vanderbilt, Fisk and Meharry will take part in various service projects at local organizations who work on issues of hunger and food security.
Students will work at one of three sites.
One option is Second Harvest Food Bank, which distributes food to 46 counties in Middle Tennessee. Other options are Feed the Children and the Society of St. Andrew, which collects rejected potatoes from commercial markets and redistributes them to the underfed through the Potato and Produce Project.
The annual event is sponsored by the J.V. Morsch Center for Social Justice as a way to provide a space for Trevecca students to join their peers around the city in service in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.
” Although Trevecca provides many opportunities for service, the MLK Day of Service is the one time each year where TNU students can serve alongside fellow students from other universities to meet needs in the broader community of Nashville,” said Jamie Casler, director of the center. “I believe that our role as a Christian community is to provide these opportunities for service as part of developing future world leaders.”
The event will begin Jan. 14 at 11 a.m. at Fisk University, 1000 17th Ave N, Nashville, TN 37208, with a presentation in the chapel where King himself spoke when he visited the university many years ago.
Dr. King encouraged everyone to take steps toward making a difference. “Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve…. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
For more information about registration and how you can be involved this year, visit http://www.belmont.edu/sl/mlk-day/index.html.]http://www.belmont.edu/sl/mlk-day/index.html.
