{"id":11755,"date":"2025-01-23T15:53:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T21:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=11755"},"modified":"2025-01-23T15:53:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T21:53:25","slug":"missouri-western-what-are-you-doing-for-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2025\/01\/23\/missouri-western-what-are-you-doing-for-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Western: What are you doing for others?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11756\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/01\/BedBuild1.png\" alt=\"volunteers build a bed from lumber\" width=\"358\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/01\/BedBuild1-66x66.png 66w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/01\/BedBuild1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/01\/BedBuild1-200x201.png 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/01\/BedBuild1-308x310.png 308w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/01\/BedBuild1.png 358w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/>Jan. 23, 2025&#8211;Missouri Western\u2019s Center for Service will honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with the fourth annual What Are You Doing for Others Day of Service from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 24 from at the Houlne Center for Convergent Technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three shifts of students, faculty and staff will participate in the first ever Sleep in Heavenly Peace bed building project for area children. Volunteers will take raw lumber and some easy-to-use tools to build handmade bunk beds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis project will ensure that no child will sleep on the floor in our town,\u201d said Kim Sigrist, executive director of the Center for Service.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Missouri Western has hosted this day or service event on the first Friday of the spring semester since 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">º¬Ðß²ÝÉçÇø is a student-centered learning community preparing individuals for lives of excellence through applied learning. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">missouriwestern.edu<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 23, 2025&#8211;Missouri Western\u2019s Center for Service will honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with the fourth annual What Are You Doing for Others Day of Service from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 24 from at the Houlne Center for Convergent Technology. Three shifts of students, faculty and staff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11757,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11755\/revisions\/11757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}