The 2013 year’s MLK Day of Service will offer the opportunity for individuals, families and groups to serve together and to build a long-term relationship with the people to whom they are lending a hand.

Last year we partnered with AMEN Ministries to prepare the old Pasquotank County Jail to become a homeless shelter.  Our work helped to call attention to the homeless issue in our county and this year we will again partner with AMEN ministries to serve six families who now have a roof over their heads.  Our job will be to improve the quality of these homes with cleaning, pressure washing, interior painting, minor repairs and yard beautification.

We would also ask that you observe other opportunities to improve the property as an on-going project of your group or team i.e. roof repair, furniture, bedding, clothing, exterior painting etc.

This is a huge opportunity to be Christ’s hands and feet
in service to others in our community.

   

So if you are ready to turn your "Day Off into a Day On" 

What to Bring with you:
1.       Cash offering to help offset the food packing event cost ($6,500).
2.       Collect NOW and bring to campus for the MLK day the following items:
        dish soap (not dishwasher), laundry soap, and bleach, 409 or similar,
        Windex, paper towels and other like items that food stamps cannot purchase.
3.       Landscape and painting tools
4.       Cleaning supplies, vacuums, dusters etc. 
        – YOU will have to use ONLY what YOU bring.

What to WEAR:
Clothes you can paint in, spill bleach on and generally ruin.

The 2013 Martin Luther King Day of Service will have multiple options:

Option One: 9:15 AM - 11:00 AM - ECSU GR Little Library
Elizabeth City MLK Day Celebration
A community event including a celebratory march culminating at a local school with topical speeches (5 min each) by one college student from the local Universities (MACU &ECSU) as well as the College of the Albemarle.  This event begins promptly at 9:15 AM at the ECSU GR Little library and ends at 11:00 AM at Sheep Harney Elementary school.  ECSU will provide marchers with a ride back to campus.  Afterwards there will be a light lunch served and there will be facilities available to watch the Presidential Inauguration.

Option Two: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM - MACU Gym
Haiti Food Packing Event
125 volunteers are needed to pack 24,000 meals for Haiti. There is no charge for the event, but there will be an opportunity to give directly to Feed the Hunger to offset the cost of the food being packed.

LUNCH: 11:00 AM -1:30 PM - MACU Gym
Hamburgers / coke etc. grilled outside eat in gym and on the dock / lawn.
Sponsored by MACU Student Life $5.00

Option Three: 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM Community Work Projects
                            w/ AMEN Ministries

These six homes are currently the homes of folks who were homeless on MLK Day last year.  We will be cleaning, window washing, pressure washing, landscaping and painting some interior rooms and porches. Our goal is to serve both a specific family and to serve people on the entire block on which the family lives.  We hope to have the youth groups build a relationship with each tenant and perhaps come back in the spring and paint the exterior of their house.  We also want you to serve other residents on the entire block:  window washing, landscaping, trash removal, porch painting, etc.