Posted: 10/05/07
| Howard Payne students (left to right) Skyler Maley, Angel Journey, Chelsea Murphee and Jennifer Brock help plant flowers at CARES nursing home. (Photos courtesy of Howard Payne University) |
Howard Payne students serve
community—with right motive
Like a “swarm” of bees, Howard Payne University students busied themselves on a recent Saturday by meeting needs in the Brownwood area.
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| Students Tamatha Faircloth (left) and Tabitha Davies help paint at the Good Samaritan in Brownwood. |
About 130 Howard Payne students participated in SWARM—Serving With a Right Motive—a campus service project launched in 1997 and coordinated by the HPU Student Activities Council. Students completed a variety of jobs including painting, cleaning and yard work at service sites including the Boys & Girls Club, Brownwood Nursing and Rehab, the Brownwood Fire Department, Care Nursing Center; Family Services Center; First Baptist Church of Brownwood, the Girl Scouts, Good Samaritan, the Humane Society, Keep Brownwood Beautiful, the Loaves and Fishes ministry, Milton Avenue Baptist Church, Pecan Valley American Red Cross and The ARK.
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| Howard Payne University students David Lara and Brittany Buchanan visit with residents of the Brownwood Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center. |
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