How did Project: RAKE Get Started?
For several years, we have taken our students on mission trips to North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia and the city of Pittsburgh. On one of these trips, one of our students asked us why we had to go so far away to minister to low income and in-need families when we could be doing something so close to home. We felt God calling us to birth this new ministry. Before Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shooting, was killed, she wrote something very powerful in a school paper. If everyone would perform just one random act of compassion, we could change the world. God used that quote to lead us to the name “Project: R.A.K.E.” (Random Acts of Kindness Everywhere).
