Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve
MLK Day Express Rolls In
“Everybody can be great… because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
At Sojourners we take our community service seriously. Service is at the heart of all we do. In the almost thirteen years since our organization began, staff and participants of Sojourners have donated over 128,260 hours of community service to the region.
Without a doubt, the service day we most enjoy is MLK Day. This year we took Dr. King’s message about love to Central and South elementary schools in Vinton County, performing for 735 children and several teachers (who seemed to enjoy the program as much as the children).
The MLK Day Express rolled into the gymnasiums to the tune “Where is the Love” by the Black Eyed Peas and the fun got started.
The program, which featured a large cast of characters, encouraged the children to think about what they can to do foster love in their communities, with each other, and in themselves.
At the end of one program a student was heard to say, “I know where the love is—it’s in me.”
Dr King would have been so proud.
The Cast and Crew of Sojourners
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