Change Local

Have you ever sung the YMCA song at an actual YMCA? Come be a volunteer and fulfill that dream. They have asked for volunteers to help their front desk staff. This is off campus in the Saint Joseph area and this project will return to campus before 2pm. 

Join us as we help to organize and clean up the Andrews University Botanical Conseratory (Price Hall Greenhouse). This is a space open for our Andrews family as well as our community.

If you want to be part of something amazing, please come join us in remodeling our very first RISE UP YOUTH ROOM and our very first KIDS RISE UP CHURCH at Harbor of Hope Church, where we are excited to empower young people to rise up and lead through Christ!

The Filmmaking Class is producing a video for Change Day documentation. If you are in this class you will automatically be enrolled. If you are not in the class, please contact Daniel Weber to request to join this group.

Neighbors working effectively using contributed resources to help people in our community. Our mission is made up of two primary components: clothing, healthy food, furniture, educational programs. This project will return to campus by 2 p.m. 

We need volunteers to help us year around! Check out our website.

ASAP Ministries stands for Advocates for Southeast Asians and the Persecuted. They work worldwide to send and support missions. NOW THEY NEED OUR HELP, with organizing their office and assisting with projects. 

They are providing lunch for their volutneers and are located in downtown Berrien Springs. This project will conclude before 2 p.m.

Help build and install the fitness trail, starting at the Andreasen Center for Wellness, for our community and Andrews family to enjoy.

This project will conclude by 2 p.m.

God's Abundant Pantry is in need of an abundance of volunteers. Sign up to help them provide food to people in need. 

Sponsored by the Department of Sustainable Agriculture

We will be planting native grasses and flowers in an abandoned field near campus in preparation for re-introducing bobwhite quail to this area. This project will involve shoveling, carrying plants in root balls and 1-2 gallon containers, watering, and mulching. It should end around 2 p.m. Be sure to wear long pants and closed-toe shoes. Gloves would also be helpful.  

For those of you afraid of needles, but who also enjoy helping the Red Cross, this is the job for you. Facilitate sign-in and handing out snacks to the blood drive donors. 

SPONSORED BY AFIA CLUB

Clean up, clean up, everybody, everywhere! Accompany us to the Fil-Am Church for some cleaning indoors and outdoors..

SPONOSRED BY BSCF & AIAS FREEDOM BY DESIGN

We need you! Join our biggest project where we will pack over 8,000 packages in an assemly line to create care packages for prisoners in our area to receive as Christmas presents. This will take place in the Johnson Gym. 

Let your presence be a gift to others while packing presents to be sent to children all over the world. 

We are partnering with Paris Purses again to help pack and fill purses with health and hygiene products to encourage and empower homeless women and women recovering from abusive relationships. 

SPONSORED BY ASIS Club (Andrews Society of Indonesian Students)

Help the children of Berrien County by providing school supplies for families free of charge. Join us as we fill backpacks with school supplies and help organzie supplies for this non-profit. 

This project is located off-camous, but will return to campus by noon.

Wanted: Photographers to travel to volunteer locations and take pictures of our Andrews family serving our community. 

Volunteer at the local daycare to wash windows and wave to little people. 

We are excited to again work with Habitat for Humanity in Benton Harbor to help them. They have recently moved to a new office in need of repainting and updating. 

This project will return to campus by 2 p.m. 

Join us as we volunteer our time at Fernwood Boticanical Gardens, who offer a safe place of beauty and healing to our community on their 105 + acres of gardens and natural areas with beautiful exhits and gardens. Help continue to keep this place beautiful for our community.

Visit here to see more about Fernwood.

If you enjoy animals, this is the volunteer spot for you. The Humane Society needs a photo booth set up, photos taken, organization, and so much more!

The highway is full of signs and this is your sign to join this highway clean-up project with a dedicated crew from the Center for Youth Evangelism.

Join the iCanvass Club as they walk through downtown Berrien Springs and offer prayer and support to our neighbors. What better way to encourage our community than to connect and pray with them?

A collaboration with the Berrien County Cancer Service to lend a helping hand to people affected by cancer through yard cleanup. 

Have you ever sung the YMCA song at an actual YMCA? Come be a volunteer and fulfill that dream. 

We work with Niles YMCA on many different collaborations throughout the year, come help as they organize from their new building expansion project. This project will return to campus by 2 p.m. 

Sponsored by CFE (Center for Faith Engagement)

The highway is full of signs and this is your sign to join this highway clean-up project. Each year we compete with CYE's Adopt a Highway group to see who finds the most treaures. Last year over $100 in cash was found while picking up this route. 

This project will be completed by noon.

Did you know Andrews has an observatory on campus? Join us as we work to update and renovate the Kingman Observatory so that our community and Andrews family can enjoy it!

Find out their schedule here.

Silver Beach has a silver medal in cleanliness. Let's make it gold with some volunteers doing beach cleanup. We will be meeting with the Parks & Recreation director to recieve instructions. After the cleanup is complete feel free to hang out and experience beautiful Lake Michigan for yourself. 

Please make sure you mark if you are driving yourself or riding on the bus.

This project will return to campus by 2 p.m.

Sponsored by the Student Missions Club

Write a note, pack a care package, and spread some homemade joy to our current student missionaries who are serving around the world. 

Sponsored by Living Springs Fellowship

Head out to your local Berrien Springs park and aid the community in cleaning up the river and working on the park.

Sharing is caring when it comes to donating blood. Come be a donor this Change Day!

TO DONATE BLOOD: You must sign up in two locations, here and 

https://www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/donation-time

Each appointment will take 20–40 minutes.

Join us at Andrews Academy to help them prepare for their Alumni Weekend by deocrating the school!

This project will return to campus by 2 p.m. 

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We are starting of creating plans for Change Day 2021! We are seeking input from student volunteers, who want to lead out in the planning and coordination of Change Day. 

If you are interested in being part of the planning team, please email teela@andrews.edu or come by Center for Faith Engagement.

We exist to change the world by empowering at-risk youth Benton Harbor and beyond to overcome adversity and break the cycles of generational poverty. Volunteer with us today! To get more information email us: greateryouthmovement@gmail.com.