Michigan —A couple years ago at Christmas time, I received a telephone call from a good friend who volunteers at the local Salvation Army. He asked if I would like to help. I was assigned to take mothers around the center to pick out gifts for their children and also to make sure that each family had a food basket. It was an incredible experience.

After going through that experience, I decided that this was a place that could use our Village Adventist School students as volunteers.

This past Christmas we had more than 40 junior high students volunteer at the local Salvation Army. We were in charge of making the food baskets and delivering them to the needy families' vehicles. When it was all said and done, our student volunteers handed out more than 1,900 baskets.

Chris Davisson, Berrien Springs Village Adventist Elementary School Bible Labs coordinator