During one worship time, students invited hurricane evacuees staying at Camp Mitchell to join the worship. The evacuees were from a halfway house in Baton Rouge, La.

While at Camp Mitchell, students engaged in a farm experience where they herded sheep, visited a pig farm and cooked their lunch using ingredients from the farm. The farming experience connected the biblical passages of being stewards of the earth and focused on earth and spirituality.

³We really learned how to be good active stewards of the physical earth which should reflect and mirror how we should be good stewards of everything God has placed in our lives,² said Kristi Vo, a sophomore from Van Buren.

³The sheep herding is an experience that I will never forget.²

³Making our own food with fresh, farm-raised meat and vegetables was a neat experience. It really made me more aware of my ignorance in what I eat,² said Eva Englert, a freshman from Dallas.

Student participants included Kaley Waldrip and Zachary Waldrip of Batesville; Emily Harris of Benton; Katie Robinson of Bentonville; Drew Ritchey of Camden; Hannah Norman of Conway; Amy Ulmer of El Dorado; Patty Hill and Hannah Jackson of Fort Smith; Kat Marsh of Hensley; Gabe Breshears, Christine Faubel and John Meredith of Little Rock; Emily Jones of North Little Rock; Will Green of Magnolia; Rachel Kincannon and Stephanie Trevino of Maumelle; Cayce Guy of Monticello; Travis Kauffman of Mountain Home; Megan Crabtree of Paragould; Jake Mitchael and Sarah Rhoads of Rogers; Colin Bagby of Russellville; Chase Green of Searcy; Rebecca Flynn of Sherwood; Kristi Vo of Van Buren; Leslie Till of Champaign, Ill.; Conner McCutchen of Wynne; Alana Buie of Lee¹s Summit, Mo.; Hannah Allee of Manchester, Mo.; Nathan Jeffries of Rock Port, Mo; Emily Lenard of St. Louis; Winn Haynes of Warrensburg, Mo.; Philip Brooks of Memphis, Tenn.; Whitney Lovell of Franklin, Tenn.; Hannah Brown, Eva Englert and Xochitl Garcia of Dallas; Paul Richards of Houston; Collin Sitler of Pearland, Texas; Luke Schaffner of Richardson, Texas; Joshua Hooper-Shaffer of San Antonio; and Rebecca Boone of Sulphur, Texas. Wayne Clark, Hendrix College chaplain, led the retreat.