5th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Challenge Day of Service

Dear Friends,

Fayetteville State University’s Office of Civic Engagement & Service Learning, in collaboration with Methodist University and Fayetteville Technical Community College, are sponsoring the 2014 MLK Challenge Day of Service on Monday, January 20,2014. Faculty, staff, and students of each of these institutions invite the residents of Fayetteville and Cumberland County to come out and help serve the community as we celebrate and honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by making this annual Day of Service “a day on, not a day off.” Initiated by Congress in 1994, MLK Day of Service is a nationwide effort to transform the federal holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. into a day of community service, continuing to elaborate on Dr. King’s teachings that help solve problems. Last year, this collaborative event rallied over 250 people who gave back to our local community through 13 community organizations. Please join our students, faculty, administrators, and staff members on this day and help make a difference in our community. We hope to make an even larger impact in 2014 by mobilizing at least 350 participants on this national day of service.

 WHO: Anyone (If under the age of 18, must be accompanied by an adult)

WHAT: 2014 MLK Challenge Day of Service

 WHERE: Lilly Gymnasium of Fayetteville State University

 WHEN: Monday, January 20,2014

Registration: 8:00 a.m. Opening ceremony: 9:15 a.m.

 PRE-REGISTRATION: www.2014MLKDay.Eventbrite.com

 BRING: Non-perishable foods for the Second Harvest Food Bank

Please join us in this national day of service to our community!

 Dr. James A. Anderson

Chancellor,

Fayetteville State University

 Dr. Ben E. Hancock,

President,

Methodist University

 Dr. J. Larry Keen

President,

Fayetteville Technical

Community College

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This MLK Day of Service project is funded in part by the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency that strengthens communities through service. The Corporation for National and Community Service leads the annual MLK Day of Service, working with the King Center in Atlanta and thousands of nonprofit groups, faith-based organizations, and schools and businesses nationwide. For further information about MLK Day of Service and what’s taking place across the country, visit MLKDay.gov. Founded in 1867, Fayetteville State University is the second-oldest public institution in North Carolina. It offers nearly 60 degrees in the arts, sciences, business, and education at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels. It serves a student body of nearly 6,000 students and has a faculty and staff of approximately 900. Methodist University is an independent four-year institution of higher education with over 2,400 students from 41 states and 53 countries. MU offers over 80 majors and concentrations, 100 clubs and organizations, three master’s degree programs, and 19 NCAA III intercollegiate sports. Fayetteville Technical Community College is one of 58 institutions in the North Carolina Community College System. FTCC was established in 1961 and serves over 40,000 students annually by providing over 150 occupational, technical, general education, college transfer, and continuing education programs to meet students’ needs and desires as well as the community. The Corporation for National and Community Service is a federal agency that engages more than five million Americans in service each year through its core programs, Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America, and leads President Obama’s national call to service initiative, United We Serve.

Visit NationalService.gov for more information.