Students prepare for service
WAYNESBURG – Many Waynesburg University students will spend fall break helping communities with service projects in Waynesburg, Gettysburg and Wheeling, W.Va.
Next week, 33 students will participate in four different faith, learning and service immersion trips led by faculty and staff.
The trips will begin this Sunday and go through Oct. 21.
Rea Redd, director of the Eberly Library at the university, will take 16 students to the Daniel Lady Farm in Gettysburg to do landscaping, maintenance and other beautificaton projects around historic locations.
The students will be partnering with Gettysburg National Military Park and the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association and will learn about Civil War history during the experience.
A group of five students will take a trip from Monday to Oct. 20 to Wheeling to assist with an after-school program for children in the area, put on by Laughlin Chapel. Julie Wise, a graduate assistant at the university, will lead the group.
The other 12 students will find work to do in Greene County. Six of them, along with six faculty members, will work on a home-building project with Greene County’s Habitat for Humanity to provide for someone in need.
Lastly, Kelley Hardie, assistant dean of student services for the college, will work with six students to serve seven nonprofit organizations, including churches, in the Waynesburg area.