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Spring Break Ser­vice Week

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MISHAWAKA—Don’t have any plans for Spring Break and love serv­ing oth­ers? Then Ser­vice Week is the per­fect thing for you!  

“Be­ing able to serve is like an ex­ten­sion of car­ry­ing out the churches work, and it re­ally is a unique op­por­tu­nity for stu­dents to go out and be wit­nesses. It will be great for stu­dents to be a part of that and have the op­por­tu­nity to meet and in­ter­act with new peo­ple,” said Denise Pen­rod, a stu­dent and or­ga­nizer of Ser­vice Week. 

The goal is to en­list 12 stu­dents, six guys and six girls, to cre­ate a team of de­ter­mined and en­gaged vol­un­teers. So far, there are about half of that num­ber signed up, but that num­ber is steadily ris­ing, she said. The vol­un­teers will be vis­it­ing a wide va­ri­ety of or­ga­ni­za­tions through­out and will have the op­por­tu­nity to serve at dif­fer­ent lo­ca­tions every day.  

The vol­un­teers will be serv­ing to­gether through­out the whole week so they will have the op­por­tu­nity to con­nect with each other and build re­la­tion­ships with one an­other. Many stu­dents have the heart to serve, but do not have the time or idea of where to be­gin. Ser­vice Week is a great time to set aside the busy life that be­ing a col­lege stu­dent pre­sents and get con­nected in the com­mu­nity sur­round­ing Bethel.  

“Stu­dents should sign up to serve, be­cause this is a unique op­por­tu­nity to stay rooted in the com­mu­nity that we’ve cho­sen to live in right out­side of Bethel and to get to know it bet­ter,” said Pen­rod. 

This is the sec­ond Ser­vice Week that Bethel has put on, and it is the hope that it will con­tinue for many years in the fu­ture, as it re­ally does pro­vide unique op­por­tu­ni­ties to serve oth­ers be rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Gospel.