Tammy Rogers, LaGrange College director of stewardship and leadership development, gets the campus Chapel ready for Monday’s Servant-Leader Awards presentation.
College President Stuart Gulley will present Stephanie Brooks, Nicole Henderson, Wanda Lowe, Lisa Morgan and Meredith Tarter with the awards, which are given annually to those in the community who embody the characteristics of servant-leadership. The ceremony will be at 7 p.m. Monday in the campus Chapel.
Brooks is this year’s Youth Servant-Leader Award winner. The Troup High School student is involved in a number of clubs, including the National Honor Society and Students Against Drunk Driving.
She also started a club known as Paws to Recycle, which distributes recycle bins to classrooms and collects the recyclables.
In addition to her concern for the environment, Brooks has worked with a number of causes to help those in need.
The LaGrange College Student Servant-Leader Awards will go to Henderson and Tarter. For the past three years, both LaGrange seniors have been involved with the Invisible Children program, which brings attention to the plight of hundreds of Ugandan children who nightly seek refuge from their country’s military conflict.
Tarter is president of Phi Mu sorority and has worked with numerous service groups, including the LC Buddies and the Boys and Girls Club.
Henderson, the president of Wesley Fellowship, spent her summer helping underprivileged children in a small Spanish-speaking community in Winchester, Va.
Lowe is this year’s Adult Servant-Leader Award winner. She organized and led a breast cancer support group for several years before her own breast cancer diagnosis brought a new angle to her work.
Today, as a cancer survivor, Lowe is employed as a nurse navigator at West Georgia Health System where she works with cancer patients to steer them through their course of treatments.
A founder and active member of Breast Friends for Life, Lowe is involved in the group’s yearly Paint the Town Pink celebration, which kicks off Breast Cancer Awareness Month in LaGrange.
The Faculty/Staff Servant-Leader Award will go to Lisa Morgan. The library circulation manager has been involved with a number of charitable causes over the years, including AmeriCorps, Hospice LaGrange, the Heart Walk and Camp Dogwood.
She is president of Health Promotion Inc., a volunteer organization that represents more than 40 churches and encourages activities that promote the reduction of cardiovascular disease through screenings, physical activity and healthy eating.
Morgan is a regular visitor to nursing homes and is active in volunteer initiatives within her church, Evening Springs Baptist Church.
The award presentations begin the college’s Celebrate the Servant observance, a weeklong schedule of events designed to place an emphasis on servant-leadership and to celebrate the Christmas season.
As in prior years, the events will culminate with “A Festival on Nine Lessons and Carols,” a concert presented by the LaGrange College Singers. The free concert is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 7, at Callaway Auditorium.
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