HPU’s Chapel Community Donates $6,000 to West End Ministries

This year’s graduates helped raise nearly $100,000 in their four years at HPU.

HIGH POINT, N.C., June 16, 2022 – High Point University’s campus is filled with caring students, faculty and staff who continuously give back to the community. This spring, HPU’s Hayworth Chapel Board of Stewards raised a total of $6,000 for West End Ministries.

The HPU Chapel community hosted an in-person gala and a virtual Silent Auction. Students raised $2,500 during the silent auction, which included donations from students, alumni and HPU families.

This year’s graduates helped raise nearly $100,000 in their four years at HPU. In years past, the Chapel community has supported the Salvation Army Angel Tree Program and the High Point Ministerial Alliance for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Oratorical Scholarship.

Class of 2022 graduate Courtney Smith, an international business and French major, says her time serving the community through the HPU Chapel made the city of High Point feel like home.

“Looking back at my four years, I am so grateful to the Chapel community for giving me the opportunity to serve the greater High Point community through these fundraising events,” said Smith. “HPU and the city of High Point was my home for the last four years. It’s important that we give back to the community that has already given us so much. Giving back also creates a better sense of community as students are able to meet residents of High Point and continue their learning off campus from influential community members. It’s an honor to serve one’s community, and I’m glad HPU makes service learning such a priority.”

The Chapel community donation reflects how the HPU Board of Stewards has worked with West End Ministries over the years in various ways.

“The students in the Chapel community teach me as much or even more than I teach them about what it means to have faith again and again,” said Rev. Dr. Preston Davis, minister to the university. “They take on big projects to serve our community. They grow in the process, and I with them. The fact that seniors leaving this Chapel community have raised nearly $100,000 during their time, and that all those dollars go to serving the High Point community, is a grand testament to HPU students servant leadership and God’s spirit working in them.”