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Two hundred Grove City students, faculty and community members will serve the broader Mercer County community for the second annual Amen to Action service event Saturday in the intermural rooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Throughout the college-hosted event, the community will pack 60,000 meals, which will be put in boxes and sent to food pantries and charity organizations across Mercer County, including the Grove City Food Bank just off campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With ingredients Meals of Hope provided,<\/em> volunteers will pack vitamin-fortified oatmeal into sealed bags containing cooking instructions and nutritional information. These meals meet the material needs of countless individuals in the surrounding community who cannot fully support themselves financially and rely on the food bank for supplementary meals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAs a Christ-centered institution, we are called to love our neighbor, and this event is a great way for our community to serve our neighbors in Mercer County,\u201d Director of Campus Discipleship and Student Engagement Thomas Biro said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Amen to Action is also a part of the new vision President Lingo is currently championing of furthering student discipleship across campus. Discipleship is the intentional process of becoming more like one\u2019s leader and learning to act, think and live as they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Senior Finley Smith attended Amen to Action last fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis opportunity opened my eyes to how a small gesture from students can have a great impact on our community. I would absolutely take the time to serve again through this event,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Regarding Amen to Action,<\/em> the Christian Formation Office hopes to grow Grove City College students\u2019 vision of kingdom discipleship through serving as a community, as Christ served.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe hope that volunteers gain a greater understanding of the needs of the local community as we look to increase GCC’s kingdom service as a part of President Lingo’s vision for holistic discipleship,\u201d Biro said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Serving others can also be fun and rewarding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sophomore Hannah Stine said she volunteered at Amen to Action last year and didn\u2019t know what to expect because she did not know who she volunteered with. By the end, she says her \u201cexpectations were completely blown away.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI found that I was not only serving the people who would receive the meals, but I was also blessed by my team as we communicated, passed the bags along and served up laughter,\u201d Stine said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Lindsay Byrd \u00b7 Contributing Writer Two hundred Grove City students, faculty and community members will serve the broader Mercer County community for the second annual Amen to Action service event Saturday in the intermural rooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[19,277,318,308],"class_list":["post-3680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-community","tag-events","tag-lindsay-byrd","tag-nov-6-2026-edition"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/2025-11-14-01-students-package-70000-meals-1.jpg",1280,660,false],"thumbnail":["\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/2025-11-14-01-students-package-70000-meals-1.jpg",150,77,false],"medium":["\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/2025-11-14-01-students-package-70000-meals-1.jpg",300,155,false],"medium_large":["\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/2025-11-14-01-students-package-70000-meals-1.jpg",768,396,false],"large":["\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/2025-11-14-01-students-package-70000-meals-1.jpg",1024,528,false],"1536x1536":["\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/2025-11-14-01-students-package-70000-meals-1.jpg",1280,660,false],"2048x2048":["\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/09\/2025-11-14-01-students-package-70000-meals-1.jpg",1280,660,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"puruckermt24","author_link":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/author\/puruckermt24\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Lindsay Byrd \u00b7 Contributing Writer Two hundred Grove City students, faculty and community members will serve the broader Mercer County community for the second annual Amen to Action service event Saturday in the intermural rooms.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3680"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3690,"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions\/3690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}