For 10th year, Tabor freshman spend Saturday in service assignments in county and in Wichita

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For the 10th consecutive year, Tabor College students and faculty served the needs of others as part of new-student orientation.

Buses and vans drove out of the Tabor parking lot Saturday morning and headed to various sites.

Eight groups traveled to Wichita to work with non-profit organizations, including Haven of Hope, World Impact Village, two Ronald McDonald’s homes, Mennonite Housing and Union Rescue Mission.

One site was not publicly named for protection.

Four groups remained in Marion County. Three traveled to rural Florence to complete landscaping and yard work for Morning Star Ranch.

The other group took on projects at Hillsboro’s Main Street Ministries.

Shawn Winter, director of Main Street Ministries, said: “It means a lot. For me to look around and see what needs to be done, it seems impossible.”

But with the help of 11 Tabor students, plus faculty adviser David Faber, the impossible became a little less daunting.

Projects included mowing, trimming, landscaping, painting, cleaning, and sorting food and clothing in the Lord’s Storehouse.

Winter also looked at this time as gaining good exposure for his ministry.

“Students don’t even know we’re here,” he said. “It’s a good way to show them what we do while also giving them the opportunity to serve.”

Allowing students to serve others during new-student orientation provides them with a foundation for their next four years at Tabor, said Judy Hiebert, vice president of student development.

“It teaches them firsthand about servanthood,” she said. “Their first day is fun, but meaningful.”

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