Andrew Huntington, Emily Wahrman and Jill Bergling after digging a trench for a propane line.
Community Service Drive
"Learning to Do, Doing to
Learn, Earning to Live, Living to Serve." This is the
FFA motto. A motto that the FFA members learn as greenhands
and demonstrate in their everyday activities. There has been
a huge focus on the last line, "Living to Serve" in the past few
months as we talk about what the motto and the creed mean.
This has led into several discussions about servant
leadership.
Emily Wahrman smiling after chopping through the HUGE root they encountered while digging the trench.
"Servant-Leadership
is a practical philosophy which supports people who choose to serve
first, and then lead as a way of expanding service to individuals
and institutions.
Servant-leaders
may or may not hold formal leadership positions.
Servant-leadership
encourages collaboration, trust, foresight, listening, and the
ethical use of power and empowerment." (www.greenleaf.org/leadership/servant-leadership/What-is-Servant-Leadership.html)
Mark Green putting up stakes for the reindeer at the court house.
The Atwood
FFA members have taken it upon themselves to set a chapter goal of
750 hours of community service for the year. They have
decided to include all the community service from the beginning of
school and track it through to the end of school. As a
chapter there is a great deal of community service done through and
after class. There are also many times that an FFA member
completes community service on his/her own. This can take
many forms including volunteering, involvement in local civic and
nonprofit organizations. Community service provides a
meaningful way of applying the leadership skills learned in the
traditional classroom and values that are taught from an early age.
Strong projects provide students with a meaningful service
experience to their community and also foster partnerships with
committed, caring adults.
Some of the events that the
chapter has done in the past and will continue to do is the annual
food drive to fill the food bank, cleaning up the highways, putting
up decorations at the courthouse and many more. The website
will be updated periodically to show the hours and progress toward
our goal.
