Free tea on the sign that Hector Hernandez, a business freshman, holds is part of an outreach program by students from the Adventist Student Fellowship in REACH Center for Urban Evangelism at the University of Maryland.
The students from the Adventist Student Fellowship set up a booth outside the Adele H. Stamp Student Union building that offered free cookies, fruits and tea for passing UMD students. As part of their outreach, they started conversations about their faith as Seven Day Adventists.
Hernandez,
enthusiastic and zesty the whole time waving students over, said he loves
talking to people. UMD student Afshin Fallahi approached Hernandez to ask what
his organization was about. The slip of paper in his hand was given by
Hernandez. It lists the details for the Adventist Student Fellowship.
Freshman Maxwell Browne (right) was constantly chatting with the UMD students that came to his booth. He told them to take whatever they want and as many as they would like.
Allie Cohen (left), a
business sophomore, and Hannah Fields, a kinesiology sophomore, manned the
cookie station the whole duration the booth was set up. The cookies depleted
the most quickly, as UMD students snapped up the peanut butter, chocolate chip
and red velvet cookies, among others.
A higher vantage
point earned Amina Young-Poon (right), a soft-spoken sophomore from the
Adventist Student Fellowship, interest from a UMD student about the activities
that her organization conducts.
The day is almost
over for the group after they ran out of cookies. Their energy was still high as
they continued waving students over for freebies.
Despite the freebies
available at the booth outside the doors of the Adele H. Stamp Student Union
building, UMD students did not stop for long. They went about their day, into
the building which is a meeting point for students to eat and mingle.
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