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Student volunteers help meet needs in local community

Messiah College believes so deeply in the transformative experiences of community service that a campus office exists primarily to coordinate opportunities for students to put their faith into action. The Agape Center for Service and Learning is helping students make a powerful local impact.

	Professor Winston Seegobin reflects on his students' service-learning experience at Paxton Street Ministries
	Read student Kay Ben Avraham's thoughts on what it means to serve others
	Visit the Agape Center for Service and Learning online

Faculty member examines Amish forgiveness in new book

Public curiosity about Amish culture, heritage, and faith peaked last October after a gunman stormed the one-room Nickel Mines schoolhouse in rural Lancaster County. While this violent act against a peaceful people stunned the world, many observers seemed equally mystified by the quick extension of forgiveness offered by the Amish community to the family of the gunman.

	Book examines Amish commitment to forgiveness
	Read David Weaver-Zercher's October 6, 2006 op-ed, "The Amish Are Not Ours," as printed in the "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"
	Order a copy of "Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy," available in bookstores September 21

Adventurer Dave Tanis challenges students in outdoor classroom

As director of adventure education at Messiah College, Dave Tanis leads students on wilderness immersion journeys.

	View student Dan Custer's `09 photographs from backpacking in Hawaii and rock climbing in California
	Dave Tanis: adventures in education