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Art Club seeks students for fun and cultural enrichment

by Cristi Brigmon

	Looking for a place to just
sit back and practice your artistic
ability in an informal setting?  Then
the Art Club is just the place for you.

	Joe Scopa, sponsor for the Art
Club, is looking for new members
constantly, and, with only ten members,
Scopa says you won't be crowded or
pressured.

	Not only are you able to relax
and have some artistic fun, you also
have the chance to help with a worthy
cause.  Every year the Art Club
volunteers to help with the Empty
Stocking Fund, a non-profit 
organization that distributes food and
toys to the needy in our area during the
holidays.

	With bake sales and other fund
raising events, not only will you be
giving a helping hand, you will also go
to museums in cities like Lexington,
Louisville, and Cincinnati, as the Art
Club takes an excursion every semester.

	For more information about the
Art Club, contact Joe Scopa in the art
classroom in the Appalachian Center on
the Cumberland campus.

                                                                 
By Mike Petra                                              
	The Education club is currently in the process of
gathering Campbell's soup labels to donate to area schools.
These labels will be used by the schools to gain educational
supplies.

	The club members are also still accepting pop tabs,
the tabs are used to send children that have Luekimia to
camp. It takes one million tabs to send one child to camp for
one week, so everyone that can bring your pop tabs to an
education club member or drop them off at Mrs. Pratt's
office located in Newman room 221.       

SECC Bell Campus News
by Linda McCulley

	Do you have a friend, a
confidant or someone whom you can call on
anytime -- day or night?  Is he or she
someone who is never too busy to listen? 
Most of all, can he or she lift you up from
the bowels of darkness, give you life, ease
your pain, and instill in you breathtaking
joy?

	If you don't have one, the
Baptist Student Union at Southeast
Community College's Bell County campus
wants to introduce you to their personal
friend -- Jesus Christ -- as everyone
needs a personal, intimate friend in his or
her life.

	When asked just what BSU is all
about, club advisor/assistant professor
Astor Simpson said that BSU is, "a ministry
for our Lord on this campus.  This ministry
is both a means to serve Him and a means
of experiencing Him for those who are
involved."
BSU is open to everyone.  You don't
have to be a Baptist to attend.  You don't
even have to be a Christian, just someone
with a desire to help others and know more
about our Savior.

	Simpson, through his exceptional
relationship with our Lord and Savior, has
inspired the members of BSU to become
involved in improving the conditions of the
lives of those around them. By doing so,
their lives as well as others have been
blessed.

	The BSU will be conducting
several community-related projects in the
Tri-State area during the spring semester.

	The BSU and the Student
Government Association will be sponsoring
"Coats For the Cold." According to SGA
faculty advisor Joe Marcum, this project
will "be a gift of love. It is a very
worthwhile project and certainly gives aid
where aid is needed." 
The Bell County Campus will be
serviced first with the remainder of the
outerwear being donated to the Cooperative
Christian Ministries (CCM) to be distributed
throughout the community. Previous school
projects have shown the effects of the
generosity of SECC students and the
citizens of the community. 

	Several BSU members will be
attending a Youth Revival -- an important
upcoming event. The Fellowship of Christian
Athletes from Clemson University in South
Carolina will be sponsoring this Revival. It
will be held at the Central Auditorium Arts
Center in Middlesboro on March 19 from 7
to 9 p.m. Admission is free. The auditorium
is located between the Middlesboro High
School and Middle School on West
Cumberland Avenue.

	FCA has wonderful plans to do
home repairs for the needy or disabled in
the community. They take time out twice
each year to visit southeast Kentucky to
spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

	In February, the members of the
BSU in cooperation with the SGA visited
the Middlesboro Nursing Home. Assistant
Professor Shelia Brooks, who has been
associated with BSU from the very
beginning, said, "We go to the nursing home
to assure them that someone is thinking
about them, that they are not forgotten,
and that God loves them. The benefit to
our students is the blessing. It also makes
our students visible to the community. We
have this group of college students that
are so busy, yet they take the time out
of their schedules to let these people
know that they care."

	In addition, Teri L. Moore, of
the SECC Bell County campus, will be
posting flyers about "God at Work." The
newsletter will inform everyone about the
wonderful things accomplished through the
Glory of our Lord.

	Assistant professor of anatomy
and physiology, Dr. Saeb Omar, reiterates
just what BSU is to him. It is "a place to
fulfill the need to love and be loved."

	The weekly meetings are on
Wednesdays at 12:30 p.m. in Room 324 in the
Classroom Building.

	Miraculous things can happen
through Christian ministry. You may feel
that you don't have any strengths or
talents to give, but you do. You and I are
but bits of clay to be molded by the
Potter. Ah! But, just wait until you see
what God can do with a bit clay!

	From time to time school can be
a stressful situation from either a
teacher's or student's perspective.  BSU is
the perfect outlet for diminishing some of
this stress for "the times of refreshing
shall come from the presence of the Lord"
(Acts 3:19). The members of BSU are
resolute in their desire to be a living
testimony to those who are watching. You,
too, can become empowered for a life of
purpose and victory. You can make a
difference in someone's life. Won't you
spend a little time of reposeful sharing
with some friends at BSU?

	All across this nation there are
people in need, and SECC is no exception.
Each day someone at this college is faced
with a problem that seems too enormous
for him or her to deal with alone. Jesus
wants you to know that you are not alone.
He said, "Ask and it shall be given you;
seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall
be opened unto you" (Matthew 7:7).

	All you have to do is ask for
His help. There is no problem--large or
small--that He won't help you with. He is
there for you night and day. He will guide
you through the roughest storm. He will
hold you in his arms. When your troubles
abate and the sun begins to rise above
the mountains of your soul, look unto the
heavens for God will hang a rainbow over
your head. Only He can do all things.

	The BSU wants to leave you with
this thought: "To you who are troubled
rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be
revealed from heaven with his mighty
angels". (Thessalonians 1:7).