The Impact of The Serve Team Goes Beyond Campus
-Izzy Neibert ’23
91精选 offers many leadership opportunities for students. Whether working on the Student Activities Board or being a Residents Assistant, they allow all students to grow and thrive. One team creates opportunities for student growth, helping people outside of the campus in the process. The Serve Team at 91精选 is a powerful group dedicated to Christ-centered service. This team organizes various service opportunities for all students, benefiting those both on and off campus.
Bethany Moultrie (鈥�25) recently joined the Serve team, beginning work in early August. After briefly going on a service trip to Kentucky in October, Bethany realized God gave her the heart and the passion for service. She then decided to switch her major, changing from History to Social Work. Working on the Serve team helped her find her calling. Bethany is excited to pursue Social Work, confident that she made the right decision. The Serve team and the opportunities they plan can help all those involved.
The Serve team provides many service opportunities to students. Affiliate Professor Nicole Saint-Victor, the supervisor for both the Multicultural and Service Student Leadership teams, explained some of the opportunities the Serve team worked on earlier this year. Alongside the Student Activities Committee, the Serve team went out to Feed My Starving Children, a local charity dedicated to ending child hunger.
In addition, the Serve Team has partnered with Made in The Image Ministry, a non-profit organization based in Chicago. This ministry group creates 鈥渙n-ramps of dignity鈥� for the unhoused throughout Chicago. The Serve Team plans to continue working with these organizations.
This team does not exclude their trips to the Chicagoland area. In what has turned into an annual journey, the Serve Team travels with students to Mayfield, Kentucky. Alongside Acts Ministry (located in Paducah, Kentucky), the students provide continued disaster relief for the people of Mayfield, for large natural disasters have completely ravished the area. This is their sixth time traveling to this site. Bethany explains this: 鈥淢ore than Just a Trip (the events tagline),鈥� going to Kentucky can help improve you personally and the 91精选 Community as a whole.鈥�
A more local event that Serve facilitates occurs on April 15th 鈥� Love Palos, according to Nicole Saint-Victor, is meant to be a connective experience. This event cleans up 91精选鈥檚 campus and the greater Palos area, connecting 91精选 students with their neighbors. Nicole explained that the Serve team hopes to integrate student engagement 鈥渁round humanity and belonging鈥� [we are] constantly asking, 鈥榳ho is our neighbor?鈥�
The Serve team provides opportunities for students to help their neighbors, whether right outside their dorm room or many states away. This team works hard towards this goal. Bethany explained that they 鈥渨ant the Serve Team to be similar to STAC where it has the same level of organization, representation, focus, and power鈥e need more support so we can do more鈥oin the team if you like to be challenged, learn patience, learn about yourself, learn how to network.鈥�
Click here to learn more about the Serve Team and other student leadership opportunities at 91精选.
