Engage with Eight

Encourages a spirit of service among the CSU family and the local community. Matthew 20:28 states, “Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Jesus came to serve the people. When we serve others, we give our lives away to them just as Jesus did for us. Community Service is the link we use to reach our community and fulfill our University vision of integrating faith in learning, leading and serving. Like Elijah, we are not only to serve our CSU community but those in need outside of our borders (Luke 4:24-27).

All Girls Allowed
All Girls Allowed mission is to restore life, value and dignity to girls and mothers, and to reveal the injustice of China’s One-Child Policy. Through education, advocacy, strategic partnerships, and legal defense, All Girls Allowed strives to: Expose the truth, Rescue victims and Celebrate life.

Goal: Maintain a club on CSU’s campus, Raise $300
Ways to get involved: Join the All Girls Allowed club (stop by the Student Activities office) to help raise awareness, help raise funds for AGA.

Be a Mentor
Be a Mentor recruits mentors from leading mentoring organizations. They strive to serve at risk populations of Charleston’s Youth. Time with a child gives them someone to look up to, high self esteem, better school attendance and better grades, more confidence and a positive caring friend.

Goal: Start partnership with Stall High School, Manage 35 mentors
Ways to get involved: Commit to being a mentor (stop by the Student Activities office) at Stall High School where CSU has started a chapter.

Eagle Harbor Boys Ranch
Eagle Harbor Boys Ranch is a place of refuge and shelter for children ages 6 to 21 that are orphaned, neglected, abused or abandoned. They desire to empower each child to rise above their past through love, structure and an opportunity to succeed in life.

Goal: Send 25 volunteers, Donate 30 bales of hay.
Ways to get involved: Contact them about you (and your friends) coming out to their ranch to hang out and serve the families. Donate money towards helping buy essential items they need to keep the functionality of the Ranch, Become a birthday/Christmas sponsor for a child.

Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity exists to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from Dorchester County, break the cycle of poverty fostered by inadequate housing and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.

Goal: Volunteers
Ways to get involved: Sign up for a work weekend.

Human Trafficking
Human Trafficking is rising and alarming injustice happing in places around the world. You may have heard about it in Africa or Nepal but how about across the street from your childhood neighborhood? Human Trafficking involves the act of recruiting, transporting, transferring, harboring or receiving a person through a use of force, coercion or other means, for the purpose of exploiting them (men, women and children). For more info visit www.unodc.org. This year we will be working with On Eagles Wings and the Hope House in Asheville, NC.

Goal: Send 35 students on Fall Break Mission Trip, Raise $250.
Ways to get involved: Raise awareness about this injustice happening in your neighborhood, nation and world, Sign up for the Fall Break Mission trip to Asheville, NC to work with On Eagles Wings Ministry/Hope House. Donate money or items needed by the Hope House in North Carolina.

Lowcountry Orphan Relief
Lowcountry Orphan Relief provides goods and services to children who have been victim to abuse and/or neglect. They work with other non-profits, schools, foster parents, and government agencies to identify the individual needs of the children in low-income situations.

Goal: Help with ‘Make a Kid Happy Day’, Send Volunteers.
Ways to get involved: Volunteer your time at their facilities by doing administrative work and organizing donations. Sign up to work on October 8, 2011 for their annual “Make a Child Happy Day.” Collect items needed for their crisis closets (see website for list).

Summerville Miracle League
Summerville Miracle League’s mission is to provide opportunities for individuals with disabilities to play Miracle League baseball, promote community support and promote the construction of special facilities that meet the unique needs of the Miracle League players and their families.

Goal: Send 60-80 volunteers to the Fall/Spring seasons
Ways to get involved: Volunteer for a weekend game during the Fall or Spring season (stop by the Campus Ministries office).

Water Missions International
Water Missions is a Christian engineering organization serving the water and sanitation needs of people in developing countries and disaster areas. Their mission is to provide sustainable access to safe water and an opportunity to hear the “Living Water” message.

Goal: Start a charter club, Raise money for a system, Send volunteers to CSU Build Day
Ways to get involved: Volunteer your time at their facilities in West Ashley. Sign up to help with the CSU Build Day (more info to come). Be a part of change by helping the CSU Chapter raise $5,000 to build a water-purifying unit. Participate in Walk for Water on March 24, 2012.

For more information you can:

1. Stop by the Campus Ministries office in the Brewer Center
2. Email Tam Odom (todom@csuniv.edu)
3. Check out the website for the organization
4. Come to the Go Center following Elevate each week on Thursday at 8 p.m.