Tiger Serve Day: Fostering a love for service
January 01, 2020
Tiger Serve Day has completely changed my view on service. Three years ago as a freshman,
I was not prepared for the impact that serving the community of Arkadelphia would
have on me. In high school I would have never gone out into my community and served
for a purpose greater than myself. I thank Ouachita, the Elrod Center, and the Tiger
Serve Day leadership team for giving me the chance to change my frame of mind.
My experiences with Tiger Serve Day are sweet moments that I get to cherish with my
friends and the loving people we get to serve. I have met so many special people with
different backgrounds and different needs. A few things that my teams and I have
done include raking leaves, pulling weeds, bleaching baseboards, clearing back yards,
cutting down bamboo, eating donuts, laughing until we cry, crying until we laugh and
loving every moment of it.
One memory that sticks out to me the most is my most recent Tiger Serve Day in April.
My team finished our two projects and called in to help with another. The leadership
team sent us to help a team that needed a little back up. We pulled up to a massive
yard of an almost 90 year old lady that loved to talk about her grandchildren and
great-grandchildren. We cleaned up her huge yard of pine needles, leaves, sticks,
and bamboo. She told our team that she stood in her doorway and prayed that each and
everyone of our dreams would come true. Before we left, we had the chance to pray
as a team over this loving woman for her son who was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
That was when I realized that serving on a Tiger Serve Day team is not about cleaning
or raking, it is about the moments when people of the community get to invest in the
lives of college students for the small price of us helping clean their yard or home.
I have loved every moment of serving with my teams and the community. I firmly believe
that my participation Tiger Serve Day has altered how I see service. I have been changed
far more than I have changed anything. I thank God everyday for sending me to a college
that fosters my faith, as well as my love for service.
By Morgan Brothers, junior CMDS major
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