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2009 MLK SERVICE CHALLENGE!
January 19, 2009
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
BELIEVED in the power of service...
"Everybody
can be great, because everybody can serve!"
Thanks to all of you
who have confirmed your participation in this years MLK Challenge!
I look forward to seeing your bright shining faces on Monday morning at
the Moton Museum. Please review the details in the schedule below
and remember to DRESS WARMLY and in OLD CLOTHING.
2009 MLK
Service Challenge AGENDA:
8:45am - Arrive &
Check-in at the Moton Museum (across from Dairy Queen)
Students should arrive at the Moton Museum no later
than 9:15 to check in. Our day begins with students coming
together for breakfast and a brief presentation of the purpose of the
day. Then students will be put into groups and be given an
opportunity to come up to the front and select an envelope containing
the details of one of the EIGHT projects. The students will spend
the day at their assigned agency trying to complete their service
“challenge”
10:00am-2:00pm - Work at Challenge Sites!
From 10am-2pm groups will work at their Challenge
sites with a break from 12:00-12:30 for lunch (which IS provided!).
2:30pm - Return to
Moton Museum for Reflection & Celebration!
At the end of the day, groups will
come back together for reflection on the day’s events. Each
group will have the opportunity to come up to the front and share their
successes with the crowd. It is at this time that those who have
gathered for the day can really take home Dr. Kings message that in
order to be great all we need is “a heart full of grace, a soul
generated by love”.
What
is the MLK Challenge all about?
“If you want to be important—wonderful. If you want to be
recognized—wonderful. If you want to be great—wonderful. But recognize
that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new
definition of greatness.
And this morning, the thing that I like about it: by giving that
definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because
everybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.
You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You
don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to
know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You don't have to know
the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a
heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. And you can be that
servant.”
The Drum Major Instinct, February 4, 1968 Atlanta
Georgia
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
As so eloquently
stated by Dr. King, anyone can be great because anyone can serve!
What better way to celebrate his memory and his mission than by engaging
ourselves in community service? Too many people see the MLK Holiday as
just another day off. My hope is that the MLK Service Challenge helps
Longwood see this holiday as a “day on” and not a day off. We want to
challenge faculty, staff and students to CELEBRATE this remembering Dr.
Kings words and giving back to their community.
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