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• One of the groups who worked in shifts to package 24,000 Meals from the Heartland at Celebrate Community Church this morning. Steve Woodhouse

  

• Nearly half of the approximately 300 volunteers who took part in A Call To Serve Ministries' service surge in Knoxville this morning. Steve Woodhouse

  

• Some volunteers spent their morning clearing trash along roads, at intersections and Knoxville's parks. Steve Woodhouse

  

• A crew helped build a new wheelchair ramp at 218 South Wilson. Steve Woodhouse

  

• A crew, with Vermeer equipment, helped clear the tress at the Seventh Street viaduct. Steve Woodhouse

  

• Volunteers, such as these at Knoxville Middle School, were assigned to clean up Knoxville's school grounds. Steve Woodhouse

  

• Joel Bennett, founder of ACTS, thanks the volunteers who came to take part in the surge, then provided some last minute instructions. Steve Woodhouse

  

• Local Christian rock band Inner Rain performed for the volunteers before their work began. Steve Woodhouse

  

• More house painters. Steve Woodhouse

  

• Volunteers were busy painting this house at 817 West Montgomery. Steve Woodhouse

  

• A group of volunteers poses after the first round of projects are nearly done. Steve Woodhouse

  

• Volunteers work on a garage at 210 North Park Lane. Steve Woodhouse

  

• Young volunteers are pictured doing preparation work for siding on a garage. Steve Woodhouse

  

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May 14, 2011

Service Surge Underway

Approximately 300 volunteers chipping in

Steve Woodhouse Journal-Express The Zope Gazette Sat May 14, 2011, 10:41 AM CDT

Knoxville — Approximately 300 volunteers are spending their Saturday morning helping friends, neighbors and the community. 

They are taking part in A Call To Serve Ministries (ACTS) service surge. This is the second such event to be held in Knoxville. 

ACTS Founder Joel Bennett said this was the biggest event for his group, which has led similar surges in Ottumwa and elsewhere. Volunteers were assigned to groups, then given various tasks at different locations throughout Knoxville. Tasks include wheelchair ramp construction, garage improvements, picking up trash, brush clearance and more. 

Volunteers we spoke with say they volunteered because this is what one is supposed to do when one is a Christian. In addition to volunteering, 170 canned food items were collected for local pantries and $3,600 was raised.

The money raised is helping ACTS and Meals from the Heartland package 24,000 meals to be sent to Haiti. Volunteers working on other projects around town are also taking shifts at Celebrate Community Church, packaging the meals. 

Bennett said the event has been a success thus far. We intend to catch up with him for a full report in the May 20 Journal-Express. 

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