Our students are encouraged to offer volunteer service work to our community as a means of living their Christian vocation of charity.

While the WCU Service Learning Center provides many good opportunities for students to serve in the community each semester, our ministry strives to provide additional opportunities for students to practice the corporal works of mercy and fulfill Christ’s command to love our neighbor.

Some of the regular, ongoing community service opportunities we provide are through The Community Table and the Adopt-a-Highway program.

The Community Table is a local non-profit that provides free hot meals to those in need four days a week. It also operates a food pantry. We volunteer as a ministry on Tuesday afternoons from 4:00 to 5:30 to assist with their dinner service. Students serve meals, bus tables, wash dishes, and help out in a variety of other ways. This is a wonderful opportunity to see the faces of those we serve, learn their names, and hear their stories. Students wishing to volunteer with us meet at Catholic Campus Ministry at 3:30 PM on Tuesdays to ride together. Pre-registration is required via The Community Table’s website. Click the below link and select the “Dinner Service” time slot on the date you wish to volunteer. While we go as a group on Tuesdays, students are also encouraged to sign up on their own for other times during the week when volunteers are needed.

We also participate in the Adopt-a-Highway roadside clean up program. We have adopted the road in front of our Student Center, and schedule approximately two roadside clean up days per semester, to help keep our little corner of God’s creation clean and beautiful.

Our Adopt-a-Highway dates for the Fall 2025 semester are Saturday, Sept. 13, and Saturday, Nov. 15, at 10:00 AM.

In addition to these ongoing service opportunities, our students actively seek out other ways we can help our community. In the past we have worked with agencies including the Smoky Mountain Pregnancy Care Center, Habitat for Humanity, and Project FIRE with the Department on Aging.