Chaplain takes students to Atlanta on mission trip
0Written By: Devin Syck
During Spring Break, eight students and Rob Musick, chaplain, went to Atlanta to volunteer on a mission trip.
While there, they worked with the DOOR Network, a Presbyterian volunteer agency, to help various non-profit organizations, such as Books For Africa and the Tool Bank. They also helped feed the homeless at the Central Presbyterian Church.
“The community among our friends, the homeless, have a much greater sense of community than most of us up here,” Wesley Rose, junior, said.
“It was a very humbling and rewarding experience working with non-profit organizations that give back to the community,” Ethan Tackett, freshman, said.
They visited the Martin Luther King Center to learn about civil rights and the struggle people endure to obtain them.
“We saw that civil rights is not just something from the 1960’s, but is still going on today,” James Alexander, junior, said.
Muxick was pleased with the group’s work.
“This trip was deeply impactful because I was able to see students be moved with compassion to feed the homeless and ask justice questions, in hopes of challenging the injustice systems which perpetuate the causes of homelessness,” Musick said.