Bears Continue Work with Habitat and Macon Outreach

MACON, Ga. – 17 members of the Mercer baseball team volunteered their time and effort to give back to the local community by working with both Habitat for Humanity and the Macon Outreach program on Saturday afternoon.

The team was split up into two different groups, with freshmen Seth Mann, Dimitri Kourtis, Eric Nyquist, Chesny Young, Grant Papelian, Tate Bullard, Mitchell Wade, Morgan Pittman, Dawson Brown and CJ Reed working with Habitat for Humanity.

The players helped work on two different houses on the day and were assigned multiple tasks including installing and leveling a foundation on one house while laying sod and spreading pine straw and grass seed at another.

Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit, economical Christian housing organization building simple, decent, affordable housing in partnership with people in need throughout the United State and in dozens of other countries around the World.

The second group of players including seniors Jacob Matthews and Colby Collins, juniors David Randall and Evan Boyd and sophomores Brandon Barker, Nate Moorhouse and Hunter Stiles went into downtown Macon to work with the Macon Outreach program.

These players helped improve a new community garden by leveling the plant beds and transporting and spreading over a half ton of mulch throughout the property.

The Macon Outreach program has been around for 35 years and is the largest provider of congregate meals in middle Georgia to the poor and homeless. The program supplies 60,000 full warm meals each year to anywhere from 150 to 200 people per day.