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MILLIGAN COLLEGE, TN (Dec. 4, 2012) — Final exams are less than one week away at Milligan College, but students are making time to get into the Christmas spirit by helping to serve the community through various projects and collection efforts.
Several students, faculty and staff participated in The Salvation Army’s Angel Tree program. Members of the Milligan community picked names and purchased toys, clothes and supplies for approximately 80 children in the Tri-Cities area.
The Angel Tree gives individuals and partnering corporations an opportunity to provide personalized gifts and necessities to those who would otherwise receive very little or nothing during the holiday season.
During a recent project organized by Milligan’s Student Government Association (SGA), 25 students volunteered to help the Second Harvest Food Bank in Gray, Tenn. Second Harvest Food Bank provides food to hungry children and seniors living on a fixed income, as well as individuals and families in need through Food Bank agencies.
The students helped to clean out the truck that the food bank uses as its mobile food pantry. The Mobile Food Pantry helps to provide regular distributions of food and grocery products in places that do not have food pantries or soup kitchens.
In addition, this week SGA sponsored Santa’s Toy Shop, a toy collection for Families Free. Based in Johnson City, Tenn., Families Free is a non-profit organization designed to build better communities through the transformation of vulnerable families, especially those affected by incarceration.
For more information about community service at Milligan, please contact Allison Nauman with Milligan’s LINC (Linking Individuals to the Needs of the Community) office at 423.461.8488 or LINC@milligan.edu.