The Service Action Leadership Team is calling all ACU affiliates to give back this holiday season by participating in Turkeys for Taylor. Turkeys for Taylor, a project facilitated by SALT, provides a full Thanksgiving meal to 70 families of Taylor Elementary School, just south of campus next to the Sanders Intramural Field. The meals are ... [Read More…]
Student-led food drive prepares to collect
Trick or Feed, an annual food drive put on by the Service Action Leadership Team to benefit Meals on Wheels Plus and Groceries on Wheels program, is gearing up to collect food on Halloween. Rachel Ritchie, SALT administrative officer, and Maxwell Moore, SALT publicity officer, started the Trick or Feed program in 2012. "Rachel and I were ... [Read More…]
SALT to recycle unwanted belongings on Dead Day
The Service Action Leadership Team, SALT, is hosting a recycling event at the end of the semester. On Dead Day students will be able to donate unwanted belongings before heading home for summer. The event will be held in the University Church parking from 10-3 p.m. Clothes, shoes, accessories, home décor, appliances, furniture and more are ... [Read More…]
SA to provide food and drinks for year-end recycling project
Congress will help fund SALT's annual year-end recycling project this semester. The Service Action Leadership Team traditionally hosts an event at the end of each school year that encourages students to exchange unwanted items with the entire Abilene community. Items brought to the event can be taken by anyone free of charge, and are thus recycled ... [Read More…]
SALT hosts year-end recycling event
SALT's annual swap-and-trade event gave students an opportunity to donate or trade items they no longer wanted or needed Saturday. With the end of the academic year and move-out dates rapidly approaching, this campus-wide event was meant to encourage to trade items or donate them to charity. Participants brought items to the University Church of ... [Read More…]
SALT provides leadership in Season of Caring
The Service Action Leadership Team, SALT, will play a big role in this year's Season for Caring, which begins Wednesday. SALT, an organization determined to get more students involved in volunteer work, will provide leadership for several portions of this year's program. Dr. Schubert and Mark Hewitt, from Love and Care Ministries, will are ... [Read More…]
SALT begins ACU’s first Celebration of Service
The Christian Service Center of Abilene welcomed the help of ACU students Saturday for one of two service activities that began a month-long "Celebration of Service." The Service Action Leadership Team organized the first annual Celebration of Service to recognize those on campus who participate in volunteer activities and to encourage more people ... [Read More…]
SALT applications due Friday
Applications to join Student Action Leadership Team are due Friday, September 10 in the SLVR. Student Action Leadership Team, or SALT, is open to any and all ACU students. According to the ACU website, SALT's "main goal" is to build relationships through service in order to fulfill our Christian mission. Kate Huggins, senior biochemistry major ... [Read More…]
Feeding the 1,000: Volunteers provide Thanksgiving meals
The Abilene community didn't go hungry this Thanksgiving, thanks to many ACU students and local organizations. The Service Action Leadership Team handed out about 50 Thanksgiving meals to families at Taylor Elementary on Nov. 23 as part of its Come Together ACU project. "We delivered as many as they asked for," said Mary Delaughter, the event's ... [Read More…]
Faculty join SALT students serving Abilene community
By Colter Hettich, Features Editor The service committee from the recently established ACU staff senate has already planned its first major service effort. The service committee teamed with a committee from the Student Action Leadership Team (SALT), to involve more faculty than ever before in the 9th annual ACU for Abilene. The administration ... [Read More…]