2012 Martin Luther King Service Challenge Finds 3 Winners!

01/16/12

SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- January 16th, 2012

Spartanburg Methodist College completed its tenth Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Service Challenge on Monday, January 16th, 2012.

Monday afternoon, thirty SMC students teamed up with ten staff and faculty members from 3 to 6 pm. The students split up into small groups, and accompanied a staff / faculty member to their house, where each group made a big pot of vegetable soup. Armed with an envelope of money from the school, the students were then challenged to purchase as many non-perishable food items as possible. The soup and food were then donated to the Spartanburg Soup Kitchen.

"The beauty of the MLK Service Challenge is that students, faculty and staff work together to make a real impact in the lives of those people for whom Dr. King was most concerned," Chaplain Candice Y. Sloan said Tuesday afternoon, after the donation results came back. Together, all SMC teams donated approximately 700 servings of vegetable soup and 3,380 servings of non-perishable food.

The winners of the Challenge were sophomore Kim Henderson, sophomore Brittany Tadlock, and freshman Kevin Witt. Together, they donated over 800 servings of non-perishable food.