By: NICOLAS FIERRO
Salina Post
About 400 volunteers from the Ark Church, completed a full morning and afternoon of service work around Salina on Saturday, July 19.
"Serve Day," by the Ark Church in Salina (2020 S. Ohio St.) was a day that volunteers from any background would come together and travel to 34 different businesses, parks, organizations and locations across town for service work. The service work would range from yard spruce-ups, taking care of the elderly, helping nonprofits/businesses, making hygiene bags, writing letters to first responders, law enforcement, military personnel and much more other services.
"This is just a really cool thing, and our church has accepted the call to serve Salina," said Ark Church Pastor, John Huseman. "I am glad we were able to come along side and help different ministries and organizations take some pressure off of them."
Before "Serve Day" started, all of the volunteers met at the Ark Church with their groups to find out which service they would be doing. From there, the groups would disperse from the church and arrive at their desired destination to serve.
"I was happy to serve for my first time," said volunteer, Jovan Suarez. "Volunteering like everyone, brings a joy to the Lord and it was fun meeting more people within our church."
"What I love about Serve Day is that our church just goes out and says, how can we help you?" said Huseman. "Serving others is a simple concept that Jesus demonstrated so well, and we try to follow His lead."
"Serve Day" is an annual occurrence by the Ark Church and happens every year in July.
The Ark Church also does an annual grocery giveaway, Christmas box distribution, prayer walks and other services each year.
