Bryant generously invited us to eat breakfast at Sowers Harvest Café, so we loaded into our van and trekked from headquarters to State College at 8:00 AM. The food was delicious, the staff friendly, and the drinks superb.
When we arrived, we saw that our colleagues Abigail and Shelly had already been working for an hour. They, and two others from our group who will begin tomorrow, have been invited by the Café to volunteer, working beside the long-term staff for the day.
At 9:30 we met at Penn State’s HUB (Hetzel Union Building), a place with a steady stream of students visiting the restaurants or study spaces in the building. Mikayla, Happy Valley Christian Community’s treasurer, and Ernest were managing a table that offered free Christian literature and information about Happy Christian Community and Life Quest Community’s services to students such as English Classes and Bible Studies.
Some of us helped staff the table, and others went to various parts of the campus, initiating dialog with students and inviting them to participate in a survey that will help Life Quest’s staff understand students’ perspectives on and experiences with religion, ethics, and Christianity and gives students an opportunity to to learn about Life Quest’s events and programs.
In the middle of the afternoon, we returned to headquarters and helped with various work projects. Some cleaned out a tree row. Others uprooted and disassembled a fence. Some worked on indoor lighting, and others worked with firewood.
We ate a supper of delicious poke bowls and debriefed our day over dessert, tea, and coffee.
We capped off the day by hearing Ernest give a presentation about Life Quest and hearing from Mikayla about her experiences as a student at Penn State.
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