Written by Kenzie James // Photo by Briley Kemper
Each Spring Sing club show competes for a local charity, and the prize money the clubs win goes to the charities they represent. During the rehearsal process, members of each show complete a service project for their charity.
The charities represented in Spring Sing are Mission Machine, Jacob’s Place, The Sunshine School, Habitat for Humanity, The Children’s Safety Center and Sparrow’s Promise.
Harding’s social clubs served their charities around the Searcy community through the spring semester by setting aside a day to complete their service projects.
“Journey Home” is the club show that women’s social clubs Ko Jo Kai, Ju Go Ju and Shantih perform with men’s social clubs Sub T-16 and Titans, and they are competing for the Sunshine School.
The Sunshine School is a nonprofit K-12 school for students with special needs, and they also offer pre-K and adult programs.
“Journey Home” members went to the Sunshine School one evening in February and had an activity night with the students. They had snacks, games and face painting, while the Harding students spent the evening interacting and getting to know the Sunshine School students.
Sophomore Madison Rhodes, a JGJ member, said the service project meant a lot to her because she wants to teach special education and get to work with those students.
“I want to be there for them and love them and just do everything that I can do to raise money for them and find ways to make them happy,” Rhodes said.
Sophomore Anna Sims is one of the Spring Sing directors for “Hooked on a Reeling,” the show for women’s social club Zeta Rho and men’s social club TNT.
Sims said their show is representing Habitat for Humanity and that for their service project, students helped work on a house that the nonprofit is fixing up for a family in need, doing everything from yard work to screwing on doorknobs.
“As Christians, we are called to live a life of service, and embodying this call is important to the members of our show,” Sims said.
Women’s clubs Delta Gamma Rho and Phi Kappa Delta partnered with men’s social club Omega Phi to represent Jacob’s Place with their show, “The Tales of Camp O-Lock-Choo.”
Jacob’s Place is a nonprofit homeless shelter for families with children. The house provides families with services including food, clothing and temporary housing.
Freshman PKD member Avery Wohlfeil said some of the students helped at Jacob’s Place by picking up sticks and garbage on the lawn, weed whacking, mowing and weeding in the garden. Students also worked inside the house to clean the floors, windows and appliances and take inventory of hygiene supplies.
“It really feels like what Harding is all about, and that’s reaching out to our community and just extending ourselves outside of the bubble of Harding that we know is really saturating Searcy with God and just how great he is,” Wohlfeil said.
