Campus chaplain gives a sendoff
Giving back: 100 Aurora University students perform community-service projects
![One of the community-service projects at WCM.](https://xpian.news/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/DSC_5866-900x450.jpg)
AURORA, Ill., April 9, 2022 — 100 Aurora University students and professors gave back to the community Saturday, April 9.
AU’s Wackerlin Center for Faith and Action and Circle K Club sponsored an 11th annual spring Morning of Service from 9 a.m. to noon.
Volunteers–about 100 students and four professors with some spouses–performed indoor and outdoor community-service projects at sites in Aurora. Hosting volunteers were Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry community garden, 834 N. Highland Ave.; Mutual Ground domestic violence shelter, 418 Oak St.; Wayside Cross Ministries Hope Chest resale store, 36 N. Lincoln Ave.; and Phillips Park Zoo, 1000 Ray Moses Drive.
Activities opened with registration, refreshments and a group photo at the Hill Center for Student Success. With a sendoff from Rev. Mark Woolfington, campus chaplain and Wackerlin Center director, teams of students departed for their assignments.
An annual fall Morning of Service is held in the first semester.
![One of the community-service projects at Phillips Park.](https://xpian.news/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/denise-zoo1-300x193.jpg)
![one of the community-service projects at Hope Chest.](https://xpian.news/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/DSC_5853-300x199.jpg)
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Al Benson
Al Benson is an Aurora-based freelance photo-journalist. He is currently an archives research specialist at Aurora University. His work has appeared in The Voice, The Daily Herald, The Beacon-News, and the Chicago Tribune.
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