Hundreds of students participate in Sixth Annual Service Day

Janel Shoun | 

Rain couldn’t keep Lipscomb University’s service-minded students down on Friday, April 11: Service Day 2008. Stormy skies caused many outdoor projects to be postponed, but hundreds of students trekked out to locales throughout Nashville despite the weather.

A mini-carnival for ailing children at the Ronald McDonald House, washing wheelchairs at a local long-term care facility, moving furniture in the Habitat for Humanity Home Store, preparing donation buckets at Healing Hands International, packing canned food
for future victims of natural disasters and many more projects were all on the agenda for this year’s Service Day.

Each year Lipscomb cancels afternoon classes for one day in the spring to allow students to take part in a different kind of learning -- volunteerism.

Pre-rain, about 500 students were scheduled to disperse to 45 locations, stretching from Franklin in Joelton.

In just six years, Lipscomb’s Service Day participation has grown from aa beginning crowd of 50 students to an average of 500 students per year participating. This year, students could preview the proposed projects and volunteer online. Service Day concluded with on-campus outdoor picnic and concert for all student participants and faculty/staff sponsors.