by Anne Paquin | Jan 14, 2012 | News Slider
Jan. 14 kicked off the start of a service oriented week to honor the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Students from Lipscomb, Belmont and Vanderbilt universities collaborated on the week’s first service project, all helping to paint Fire House 19 near downtown Nashville through the Hands on Nashville service group. Students spent their Saturday morning painting the old fire house that has been forgotten since 1993. Other projects to honor Dr. King included working with Feed the Children and the American Red...
by Cory Woodroof | Oct 12, 2011 | News Slider
If you either got the scent of a delicious meal or heard some good music this past Monday night, thank the folks at Open Table Nashville. Open Table Nashville recently hosted its 2nd annual Southern Cookin’ and Music Festival in the Flatt Amphitheater. The event was created to help raise money for the non-profit, interfaith organization. Brett Flener, a senior Law Justice and Society major and one of the organization’s co-founders, is very appreciative of the social and service clubs that helped with the event, as well as the other supporters of the organization. In addition to the southern food, there were several musical acts including Sarah Carter and the Pretty Ponies, Hogslop Duo, Jo’shua Odine, Relapse and Chrome Pony. Flener likes to think of the event as “spreading joy just to spread more joy.” He sees it as a “win-win” situation for everyone involved. Open Table Nashville defines itself as “a non-profit, interfaith community that disrupts cycles of poverty, journeys with the marginalized and provides education about issues of homelessness.” Open Table also works to provide community and transitional housing. Flener says that he wants everyone to know that Open Table Nashville is a community. ”We’re not really here to ‘fix’ people,” he said. “We don’t see these people as problems. We see them as brothers and sisters to be journeyed with.” Flener said that he wants Open Table Nashville to provide a community for those who have lost their own. “What we are looking to do, especially through our community houses, is to plug in and say ‘We want to be that family now,” he said. “We...
by Danielle Boyd | Sep 21, 2011 | News Slider
SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise) is an international non-profit organization on college and university campuses, where students do community based projects on relevant economic, social and environmental factors. “They go in and empower people based on those factors to improve their standard of living and quality of life through the positive power of business,” said Duncan Gross, a junior accounting major from Memphis, Tenn., and executive director of Lipscomb SIFE. The organiztion, established on campus Jan. 15, 2010, made its debut as one of the fastest growing student-led organizations on campus. When it first began, SIFE enlisted students to join the efforts for service within the Nashville community. “We sought to really work with the non-profits in Nashville to help them with the process and improvement of the projects they do within the community,” said Gross. Originally taking on 16 projects at a time, SIFE has narrowed down their mark this year to only three, giving students the opportunity to engage and serve at a more feasible work schedule. Within the past year, SIFE members have collaborated with many non-profit organizations such as Greenhouse Ministries in Murfreesboro, Tenn. “One of our biggest projects is Kilowatt Ours,” said Gross. “I plan to reenergize America.” For that project, SIFE members and organization leaders complete a series of workshops to help low-income families save energy and decrease their electric bills by at least $80. “This will help them save money, which they can reallocate to other aspects of life,” said Gross. As SIFE continues to grow, its service has reached beyond state lines and into the international level. In addition to serving the community, SIFE has also developed a pen pal project with David Lipscomb Middle School as well as...
by Julie Shrewsbury | Jan 24, 2011 | News Slider
Good singers, hilarious dance moves and raw talent came together and made for a great and side-splitting show last Friday and Saturday nights in Collins Alumni Auditorium. The Anteaters’ Ball is far from your typical experience. With styles ranging from Christian hymns and Vanessa Carlton’s “A Thousand Miles,” to Spanish songs such as “Looking for Paradise” and a saxophone solo, each performance left the audience in stitches or in awe, excited to see what was coming next. As if the name Anteaters’ Ball doesn’t give way to the uniqueness of the performance, upon entering the double doors you realize this is a show like no other. A $5 donation was suggested, serving as the entry fee, with proceeds going to help raise awareness and prevent the spread of Malaria in Africa. The two service clubs partnered with a non-profit organization called Global Health Innovations for this year’s production. This organization designs, implements and manages medical programs focused on providing solutions to save lives one village at a time. Brad Gautney, president and medical director of Global Health Innovations and an Abilene Christian University graduate, spoke to the crowd during intermission. “In areas such as Kenya, Malawi and Haiti, where we do the majority of our work, we see so many children and adults dying needlessly from Malaria,” Gautney said. “This disease can not only be prevented, but also cured after someone is infected. We have a heart for these children and their families, and from that stems our hard work to raise awareness and beat this awful disease.” Right before intermission they showed a video that allowed the audience...
by Hunter Patterson | Nov 4, 2010 | News Slider
Students at Lipscomb are recognized for the numerous hours of service they complete each year. But it’s pretty astonishing what some students completed in just an few hours. Freshmen Nathan Owens and Zac Riedford, along with the help of countless friends, surprised a fellow student with something that not only brought tears to his eyes, but to almost every eye at last night’s Wednesday Night We Eat. Take a minute to think about living and going to school more than 7,000 miles away from home. That is what freshman history major Caesar Tang has to deal with everyday. He’s from Hong Kong, and he moved here his sophomore year of high school. Tang has only been home to China a few times since moving to Texas three years ago. With that in mind, Owens and Riedford began to wonder if it would be possible to send Caesar home for Christmas. “It started with about five of us sitting in a room,” said Owens, a biology major. “And we just started thinking it would be really cool to send Caesar home.” During a Tuesday night devotional, started by a group of freshman in 2008, the idea was born. “After devo one night we voiced the idea aloud once Caesar had left,” Owens said. “Our RA, Mark Wilkins, told us that it was a good idea and that we should run with it.” After thinking about it for a few days, Owens, Riedford and few others got together and talked about the options that they had. “Finally about a week later I decided that we needed to do something right then,”...
