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Working with children is rewarding for Fellowship members
By Joy Evans
feature editor
Seeing an enormous smile on a little
child's face and feeling the love in a
child's warm embrace are just two of the
many reward students involved in Baptist
Student Ministries' Hispanic Fellowship
receive every week as they work to serve
the Hispanic community.
Hispanic Fellowship is a ministry
team that started five years ago in con-
junction with the BSM. Their mission is to
reach out to the Hispanic children in the
low income areas surrounding Hardin-
Simmons University.
The group works with a Hispanic mis-
sion church called Iglesia Templo Bautista
pastored by Julian Bridges head of HSU's
department of sociology.
According to Renee Taylor president
of Hispanic Fellowship there are about 80
to 100 children that attend the mission
church. With so many children there has
been an enormous need for adults to help.
Hispanic Fellowship dedicates time teach-
ing Sunday school and sponsoring recre-
ational events which both assist the church
and work with the children.
"Most of these children come from
poor broken homes and they need love
and affection and most of all they need
Jesus" Taylor said. "This past Sunday I
taught Sunday school and five little kids
accepted Jesus as their Savior. It is so
exciting to know that the efforts of
Hispanic Fellowship have an eternal pur-
pose." On Nov. 1 1 the group held a Hispanic
Fellowship Day at Iglesia Templo Bautista
from 1 to 3 psn. They played games sang
songs and had a puppet show for the chil-
dren who attended.
Taylor said that while this day was
intended to be full of fun and excitement
the main purpose behind it was to share the
love and joy of God with the children.
"The best thing about Hispanic
Fellowship is being able to see a child
smile and know that behind every smile is
happiness" Taylor said. "Being able to
give these children a little love and encour-
agement is what Jesus wants from us and
that is the reason we do all we do."
While there are already about IS
members of Hispanic Fellowship Taylor
said they welcome anyone who wants to
join the group and help out.
"Anyone interested is welcome no
matter what ethnicity they are and it does
not matter if they can or cannot speak
Spanish" Taylor said. "We want people
who have a desire to serve God and work
with Hispanic children that's all."
In addition to ministering to Hispanic
youth the Hispanic Fellowship is also
planning to sponsor a Cultural Awareness
Day in March. They are planning to have
different cultures represented at different
f f Most of these children
come from poor
broken homes and they
need love and affection and
most of all they need Jesus."
-Rene Taylor
Hspanic Fellowship president
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booths and serve foods from various coun-
tries in the cafeteria.
According to Roger Mathews vice
president of Hispanic Fellowship the
group is growing and maturing and is an
influential ministry both on campus and in
the Hispanic community.
"This is a wonderful group that has an
incredible outreach" Mathews said. "We
pray that God will continue to bless us and
our ministry to the Hispanic children of
Abilene.
Freshmen get left off of dorm list move in with president
College Press Service
Incoming Alma College freshmen Lance Turner and
Paul Swaney anxiously watched their mailboxes for their
dormitory room assignments all summer long. The two
Traverse City High School graduates were planning on
living together in the dorms and the longer-than-normal
wait for their room was making them nervous.
"Ever since high school we assumed we'd be going
to the same college and living together" says Turner.
"When we didn't hear anything from Alma we started to
act a little worried."
It turns out that the small liberal arts college enrolled
a record number of freshmen and had a temporary hous-
ing shortage on its hands. Turner and Swaney were two of
the many incoming students who had yet to receive infor-
mation on where they would be living because school
officials were still trying to figure it out themselves.
"We finally heard that we'd be split up and that we'd
have to share a room with an RA" says Swaney. "It was-
n't exactly what we wanted to hear."
Turner agrees saving be and Swaney decided they'd
rather spend time in temporary housing together and wait
for an available room. "Living with your R.A. isn't part of
your typical college experience especially for a fresh-
man" Turner says. "We wanted to see if they could come
up with a better offer."
Alma College did.
Turner and Swaney spent the first three weeks of their
college careers living with Alma President Alan Stone and
his wife Jonieta ia their house.
"When they first said it I laughed" Turner says. "I
figured they'd find us a bed somewhere but not in the
president's house."
Although Turner and Swaney originally worried
about living under the watchful eye of an RA. they ended
up wondering about what it'd be like to reside at the pres-
ident's address.
"I didn't know if we would have a strict curfew or if
they'd make us do chores" jokes Turner. "I had no clue
what to expect."
But when Turner and Swaney pulled vp in front of the
president's bouse just across the street from campus they
both had a pretty good idea.
"It was huge" says Turner. "There are like eight bed-
rooms or something."
Turner and Swaney ended up having the entire third
floor of the place to themselves each with their own bed-
room and bathroom.
Each bedroom in the Stones' home the freshmen
soon found out had a theme. Turner stayed in the
"SeashelT room complete with Caribbean colors and var-
ious items from the sea while Swaney lived in the
"Egyptian" room which housed a collection of Egyptian
art and tapestries.
And as one might guess living with the president of
a college hardly qualifies as roughing it.
"I came home from class the first day and there was
this woman cleaning my bathroom" Swaney says of the
twice-a-week maid service. "It was a lot like living in a
hotel."
The two Alma freshmen say the living arrangement
wasn't nearly as awkward as the other students would
think. "It was a lot like your typical parent-child relation-
ship" says Turner. "At night they'd do the 'how was your
day kind of thing and we'd tell them. They were really
great."
. Turner and Swaney often shot pool with Alma's
President Stone while they were his houseguests. "He's
pretty good" says Swaney. "I was impressed."
But despite the sweet lie the two freshmen looked
forward to their regular room assignment. "The set-up
was great" says Turner "but we felt like we were kind of
isolated from the rest of campus."
So when a room in Mitchell Hall opened up the two
students packed up their things and headed a few blocks
west
"It's nice to have our own place" says Turner adding
that he and Swaney aren't going to do the "theme thing"
in their room. "We are meeting a lot more people and hav-
ing a lot of fun."
The freshmen don't regret their stay with Alma's first
couple though. "It is something I'll always remember"
says Swaney. "It was so nice of the Stones to open their
home to us like that. It makes me sure I made thCright
choice when I came to Alma."
And for a couple of freshmen being on a ftrstname
basis with the college's top dog always looks good. "We
were going to class the other day and (President Stone)
pulls over in his car and asks us to come over and play
some pool that night" says Turner. "Everyone was look-
ing at us like we were important or something. It was pret-
ty funny."
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The Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 12, Ed. 1, Thursday, November 16, 1995, newspaper, November 16, 1995; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth97625/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hardin-Simmons University Library.