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Lindsey Wilson ACES club helps New Orleans rebuild Trip Participants included the following: Faculty: Randy & Miranda Burns; Josh & Jennifer Furkin; Benson Sexton and Kristin Rucker; and Travis & Allison Smith; Students: Adam Daily- Lexington, KY; Thomas Noe, Greensburg, KY; Devin Barnett, Middlesboro, KY; Bradley Piper, Owensboro, KY; Garrett Luttrell, Columbia, KY; Brandon Burns, Columbia, KY; Stephen McGhee, Guthrie, KY; Britt Jeffries, Edmonton, KY; Ben Terrell, Eddyville, KY; Brandi Abston, Burkesville, KY; Patricia Burns, Burkesville, KY; Channing Abel, Lexington, KY; Christy Howell, Maysville, KY; Hannah Crawford, Middlesboro, KY; Tracy McClain, Harrodsburg, KY; Laura Walker, Columbia, KY; Jerena McGinnis, Monticello, KY; Sara McGinnis, Monticello, KY; Sarah Henry, Monticello, KY; and Laura Wesson, Somerset, KY. With one photo By Duane Bonifer Almost two dozen Lindsey Wilson College students spent their recent spring break in New Orleans. But they didn't travel to the Crescent City for fun, they went as part of a disaster relief effort through the LWC's ACES club. Freshman Advisor Randy Burns, along with colleagues Jennifer Furkin and Benson Sexton of the Academic Success Center, led the students from ACES down to the bayou for the second consecutive year to help the Crescent City rebuild from Hurricane Katrina. "Last year, the students came to me about two days into the trip and said that because there was still so much to be done, that we should come back again the next year." Burns said. "I gladly said yes." Students from ACES, which stands for Achieving Collegiate Excellence and Success, said they were excited that they could contribute to something greater than their selves. "It's fantastic," Devin Barnett, criminal justice freshman from Middlesboro, KY, said. "I've always heard about trips where people go to help others. There's still so much more to be done (in New Orleans), and you really can't grasp a hold of that unless you come down here and see it with your own eyes. I am so glad to be a part of this and to be able to tell people in the future that I went to New Orleans and reconstructed houses so that people could move back in." The ACES program worked through the Louisiana United Methodist Disaster Relief Effort, which serves New Orleans. At the beginning of each day, the group split into two teams with one team spent time installing dry wall and rebuilding a house, while the other team helped out with maintenance and nursery work at a homeless shelter that serves young people between ages of 16 and 21. The New Orleans trip taught the Lindsey Wilson students not only what serving others is all about, but it also allowed many of them to experience a new culture. "We are just so grateful to be able to have an opportunity to help this city; it's a fabulous city," Burns said. "The students get to experience one of the most unique cultures in the United States." Burns said he was happy with the way the Lindsey Wilson embraced his group's efforts. "We're so fortunate to have an administration at Lindsey Wilson which supports these types of projects," Burns said. "It's not just the fact that we're financing a trip so that young people can go to New Orleans for spring break, and it's not just so that a house can get fixed, but we're investing in the lives of these young people. These kinds of trips have a dual purpose, one being to do the actual work, and the other is to instill values, beliefs, and passions within the students of Lindsey Wilson. And that's how the world becomes a better place." This story was posted on 2008-04-09 09:35:11
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