Labor of Love: Hand of Hope

For this year’s ATS Service Day, we partnered with Habitat for Humanity of Jessamine Co. We prayerfully decided to focus on the local community in Wilmore. Over 120 people consisting of ATS Staff, Faculty, Students, and Families joined us to help. The volunteer team focused on three local houses, and was able to make some beautiful and significant improvements. The first project consisted of painting an entire house, installing a new front porch and screen door, and completely weeding and landscaping the whole yard.

A second project took place at a house on Drake Lane, where we were able to tear down a dilapidated deck that had caused the elderly owner many falls, and re build a totally new deck with a handicap ramp. This house also had multiple roof leaks, so students and staff applied a special sealant that lasts for up to 10 years.  A third home in the neighborhood of Woodspointe blessed our volunteers with the opportunity of making the home handicap accessible with a newly built railing down the drive way, and railings in the bathrooms.

In addition to home repair, we also partnered with our local Wilmore Highbridge Service Center to pack eighty boxes of food for needy people within our community. This was a campus- wide effort with families from Kalas Village, Staff, Faculty, and Students contributing food over the months leading up to the annual Service Day.

We are excited about what God is doing on our campus, and in the community through
the exciting new partnerships He is forming. Community Formation Program Coordinator Liz Eberhart is currently working with Asbury University to bring the two institutions service days together for the 2016/2017 school year, and annually unite to be Hands of Hope for our community.

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