Steph's Story (Video)
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Not only did God show me love and glory during our service work, but he also blessed me with a family of brothers and sisters...
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At 5AM you’re awoken by strong knocks on the church door. Tito arrives and starts moving tables while you slowly wake up, and within an hour your cots are gone and the church basement is transformed into a banquet where the rich and poor break bread: a breakfast with our homeless neighbors. Such was the explosive beginning to our pilot project, ServeUP Brockton!
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One of the students joining us was a senior Chinese international student, who joined the trip due to an invite from one of our student leaders who lives on his floor. This was his first time hearing the gospel, and by the end of the week, he was very much immersed in trying to understand the faith...
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29 Smithies, together with 40 other students from Mount Holyoke, Amherst and UMass, went down to New Orleans for ServeUP, our annual alternative spring break trip back in March. The week was packed with long, full days on work sites as well as evenings of community reflection time...
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On the final day of the week long service project in New Orleans over spring break students gathered in the gymnasium, formed and line, held hands and silently responded to the following prompts:
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Miss Mary tells her story of coming back to her home in the Upper Ninth Ward, New Orleans after 10 years of being displaced after Hurricane Katrina.
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Here are just a few snapshots and quotes of what God has done on our InterVarsity Spring Break trip "ServeUP" last month.
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I want you to know God - that I love you and that I'm ready to tell the world. I'm ready to share it with everyone!" - Miriam, RIC student on ServeUP #serveup16
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For the 10th year in a row, New England has sent a team of students with their friends of different faith backgrounds to serve the city of New Orleans. We spent the days painting houses, working at an urban garden, replacing incandescent light bulbs with LED bulbs in peoples' homes for free, and building houses!
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