City Serve
On September 5, 2011, over 40 first
year students from the Wesley Center's City Serve orientation program
journeyed to Hamline Church, United Methodist to fight malaria. This
first year of partnership proved to be a huge success in both education,
getting students excited about volunteering, and making a lasting
impact.
City Serve, an annual component of new student orientation, is a key part of the Hamline experience. “Participating
in City Serve is one example of Hamline’s mission to teach our students
how to lead successful lives of leadership, scholarship, and service,
and connect it with the pursuit of the common good,” said Daniel Campbell,
communications assistant at the Wesley Center for Spirituality, Service,
and Social Justice, said. “Students volunteer, learn about their
community and each other, and are challenged to connect this experience
with what they’ll be learning in their classes.”
Students watched "When the Night Comes,"
an innovative documentary that portrays the very human face - and cost -
of malaria. Following the documentary Daniel Campbell and Beth Beaty, Hamline Church's
director of Spiritual Formation collaborated
on a special presentation about Imagine No Malaria and how the students
could make a difference through educating others. Then, students worked
together to create five nets and hundreds of pipe cleaner mosquitoes
that will be used at the church and around Hamline's campus to help
generate awareness.
Learn More
Check out the video featuring our City Serve students and Hamline Church's
director of Spiritual Formation, Beth Beaty as well as a photo gallery from the event!