Service Trip Day 4: Potluck and Caregiver Kits

Each night different churches and businesses provide wonderful meals for us. Thursday night we went to First Baptist Church in Dunkirk for a potluck dinner and time of fellowship with some of the members of the church. They were very smart and had already separated themselves to 2-3 people at each table so we couldn't follow our usual tendencies to just sit by ourselves. Instead, we got to enjoy mingling and connecting with those at our table. After we finished eating a portion of the food (many of the leftovers we ate for lunch Friday and we still have more leftovers), we all introduced ourselves. Dan (the Western NY Area Director for IV) drove up to visit and shared about the proxe station he had helped with at the UB campus. It gave a great example for the students of what a proxe station could look like, since none of the e-board had ever seen one. Fredonia sadly has not done an evangelistic proxe station to reach out to campus in about 5 years. After Dan spoke, I shared some about the service trip and Urbana before introducing a student to discuss her plan to make kits to send to caregivers of people with AIDS in Africa. At Urbana, we built 16,000 kits and while Fredonia's goal for the semester is smaller (50-100 kits), it is still a large task to raise $22 per kit. She and a few other students are working hard this semester to raise the funds to build these kits. If you're interested in joining, please comment below or contact me. This goal of continuing to serve throughout the semester through the kits is just one of many ways the students are bring God's love to the campus and world. Please pray for us as we finish up the last hour of service and our final night together.