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Martin Luther King, Jr. was deeply committed to serving others and helping foster a more just society. Every year, thousands of people across the United States come together to honor Dr. King through service projects, scholarship opportunities, and worship services. High Point University and the surrounding community are growing their partnership to make MLK Day a day on rather than a day off.
We invite you to participate in any or all of the MLK Day opportunities to worship, fellowship, and serve throughout MLK Day weekend.
For the 7th consecutive year, members of the Bonner Leadership Program at High Point University are hosting the Annual Hunger Banquet. Though this year will lack the traditional dinner and in person fellowship, Bonner Leader’s are excited to present this public, community event online. For the 2021 Banquet, we will be analyzing the way Covid-19 has exacerbated hardships for community partners and citizens alike. By the end of the evening, our hope is to allow attendees to connect with us as students, and to inform the community of one of the largest issues that takes place outside the university gates
11:00 AM-12:30 PM: Worship Service The High Point University Virtual Worship Service will be held virtually at 11am, January 18th. This year’s keynote Preacher is Rev. Dr. Jonathan Walton. Rev. Dr. Walton is the Dean of Wake Forest University School of Divinity. See details.
6:00 PM- 8:30 PM: Evening Worship Service and Celebration at Williams Memorial CME Church
The evening service will kick off with a pre-recorded video of students presenting their speeches for the oratorical competition followed by the awarding of scholarships. The service will be a worship experience filled with songs of praise. The service will be live-streamed on Williams Memorial’s website.
Please read through the project descriptions below, then contact the Project Leader to sign up.
Due to COVID-19, volunteer sign ups are limited to campus members only.
Service Projects for Monday, January 18, 2021
2021 MLK Day Service Projects
On-Campus Service Projects
Location
Contact to Sign Up
Packaging Seeds to Share
Monday, January 18th
Time: 9:30-10:30 am
10-20 volunteers will be packaging, labeling, and counting vegetable seeds. Email Jenny Carpenter to sign up.
The Local & Global: A Conversation about Social Movements around the world and at home
Monday, January 18th
Time: 10:00-11:30 am
This virtual event will expand the ever-important conversation about Civil Rights to include perspectives from our own High Point Community and Communities on a global scale. The event schedule will include select clips from a documentary made about the local Civil Rights movement in High Point then, with the help of moderators Natalie Ward and Filmmaker Ms. Phyllis Bridges, the attendees will engage in a conversation about civil rights leaders from their communities domestic and abroad. After the event we ask our volunteers to submit a one minute video of themselves talking about someone who has advanced social equality in their community so that we may create resources for local schools to participate in similar conversations!
Volunteers needed to submit one minute video or audio file describing a civil rights leader or social movement that helped advance equality in their community by January 18th.
At this point the Poetry Project has been firmly inundated in the High Point University and Washington Street community for the last three years. We would like to continue this partnership by allowing space for college and high school students from our respective programs to participate in an online workshop, which would thus lead to exposure on the radio and on social media platforms.
VIRTUAL:
Zoom/Webex/Blackboard Collaborate REGISTER NOW
Teachers of Tomorrow is partnering with the High Point Schools Partnership to collect gently used technology and devices for students and schools in need! Students, faculty, and staff can bring gently used iPads, MacBooks, laptops, ChromeBooks, headsets, microphones, and wifi adapters to the collection box at the Slane Campus Concierge Desk. After the collection period, High Point Schools and Partnership will distribute the devices to students, schools, and organizations in need.
Come by the Slane Philanthropy Tables to write a thank you or thinking of you note for our frontline workers, first responders, or nursing home residents!
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing for others?'” Each year, Americans across the country answer that question by coming together on the MLK Holiday to serve their neighbors and communities. The MLK Day of Service is a part of United We Serve, the President’s national call to service initiative. It calls for Americans from all walks of life to work together to provide solutions to our most pressing national problems. Read more about the MLK Day of Service at MLKDay.gov.
HPU students, staff and faculty, and community non-profit agencies, churches, schools, and individuals have worked hard to develop service opportunities throughout the City of High Point.
In the last nine years, with the help of over 1000 volunteers a year, we annual serve on 35-40 projects throughout High Point. We want to add to this legacy of service, and we hope you’ll be involved. To see a highlight of all that we were able to do in the community in the last few years, take a look at the links below.
For additional photos of the day, check out our Facebook page.
For volunteer registration questions or have a volunteer project you wish to have considered, contact our AmeriCorps VISTA at HPU, Casey Tyndall at ctyndal1@highpoint.edu.