Six ACS high school students, led by high school Bible teacher Joe Rowell, spent their Easter break volunteering at local organizations in Nashville, Tennessee that provide vital services to the needy in that city. On their way back from Nashville, the missions team also spent time in Kentucky, touring the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter, a life-size replica of Noah’s Ark (pictured above left).

In Nashville, the ACS team, under the direction of the Center for Student Ministries, spent four days serving at the Fish and Loaves Soup Kitchen, harvesting kale and planting vegetables at an urban garden, packaging sweet potatoes at the Second Harvest Food Bank, and working at a warehouse that provides furniture and household goods to the needy.  They also cleaned and helped with painting at a local church.

In Kentucky, during their tour of the Creation Museum, the students met and spoke with Ken Hamm, the founder of the museum and the “Answers in Genesis” website (pictured at top).  “The most important lesson we learned at the museum is that the truth claims of Christianity about creation do not rival the facts of science and are not mutually exclusive,” Mr. Rowell said.  The students and adult chaperones who participated in the trip were: Steven Chirinos, Rudy Dalinger, Jasmine Davis (chaperone), Zengheng (Constantine) Jiang, Jay Lee, Brianna Lomangino, Joshua Mizrahi, and Joe Rowell (chaperone).