B-L student leads college volunteers

Organizes Martin Luther King Day of Service

Posted 2/9/21

By Stacy Dyer

sadyer@presby.edu

Batesburg-Leesville student Hallie Keisler learned the value of serving others as a child. 

"I remember my mom always …

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B-L student leads college volunteers

Organizes Martin Luther King Day of Service

Posted
By Stacy Dyer
sadyer@presby.edu
Batesburg-Leesville student Hallie Keisler learned the value of serving others as a child. 

"I remember my mom always going the extra mile to serve as a teacher, member of the church, and just a friend," Hallie said.

Most recently, Hallie helped organize Presbyterian College's Martin Luther King Day of Service. 
While at Batesburg-Leesville High, Hallie  tried to find as many outlets as possible to serve.
"From our special needs cheer team to volunteering at the hospital, my heart has always had a desire to serve," she said. 
"To serve someone is to show them love, and that's what I hope to do every day of my life."
Now in her junior year, she chose PC partly because of the college's focus on service.

"When choosing schools, I was stuck between two. The words, 'Thornwell Children's Home is a place you can spend your time at and feel fulfilled' sold my heart of service."

Thornwell, across the street from PC, is where students volunteer with the Big/Little Sister and Brother program.

And most recently, she and fellow PC student Noah Dylan Burkett helped organize the college's Martin Luther King Day of Service. 

"Our college has been based on the act of service since the 1880s," she said.

"Years before any of us students arrived in Clinton, William Plumer Jacobs was creating waves of service beyond himself."

Jacobs founded Thornwell in 1875, 5 years before founding PC.

"Dr. Jacobs wanted these children to have an opportunity to forge an education and from that came PC. 
Dr. Jacobs gave life to the words 'While we live, we serve.'

On MLK Day of Service, PC students prepared the bike and walking trail, a section of the Swamp Rabbit Trail.

PC students also helped add the final touches to a Habitat for Humanity-built home in Clinton. 
The students planted bushes and did construction work while a few other students tended to animals at the Laurens County Humane Society.

"Each of us have personally seen and experienced the world in a state of struggle but this is a chance to be a small glimpse of light that our world and community need," she said.

Do you know someone in our community whose service needs to be recognized? Please email JerryBellune@yahoo.com

 

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