{"id":10444,"date":"2023-03-14T17:10:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T21:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/?p=10444"},"modified":"2026-05-22T11:18:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:18:33","slug":"eastman-leaders-farmworker-ministry-wimauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/blog\/eastman-leaders-farmworker-ministry-wimauma\/","title":{"rendered":"Eckerd College Eastman Leaders take their painting skills to a farmworker ministry in Wimauma"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” row_position_desktop=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extraa-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” flex_gap_desktop=”10px” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”10469″ image_size=”full” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”Fade In” animation_easing=”default” animation_movement_type=”transform_y” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” img_link_large=”yes” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default”][vc_column_text]Eastman Leaders join Director of Service Learning Ronald Porter ’05 (in red) and Angel Santos, Beth-El’s operations manager (right), at Beth El Farmworker Ministry<\/span>. Photos by Penh Alicandro ’22<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” row_position_desktop=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=”” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” flex_gap_desktop=”10px” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\n

It\u2019s a Sunday morning in early March, and Katya Tjahaja is trying hard not to get paint on a door frame. A junior biology<\/a> student from Jakarta, Indonesia, Katya could be back on the Eckerd College campus sleeping in or just relaxing.<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ bottom_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” row_position_desktop=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=”” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” flex_gap_desktop=”10px” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”2\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Instead, she\u2019s about 40 miles away at the Beth-El Farmworker Ministry<\/a>, helping to paint a room that will become a low-cost clothing store for thousands of local farmworkers.<\/p>\n

\u201cFarmworkers are really the ones who provide so much of what we eat,\u201d says Katya, who also is editor-in-chief of The Current<\/em><\/a>, Eckerd\u2019s official student newspaper. \u201cThey work so hard for very little money. And a lot of the time, they\u2019re simply labeled as illegal aliens.\u201d<\/p>\n

Katya and five other Eckerd College students, led by Ronald Porter \u201905, Ph.D., director of service learning<\/a> at Eckerd, spent several hours Sunday working at the Ministry\u2019s 27-acre campus as part of the College\u2019s Eastman Citizenship and Leadership Program<\/a>. The program\u2019s faculty director, Amy Langenberg, Ph.D.<\/a>, associate professor of religious studies<\/a>, explains that Eastman Leaders have a discovery plan\u2014a set of activities related to some issue or question that\u2019s important to them. 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building, are an occasion to reflect on the ethics of community engagement, and allow students to learn more about the people who live in the Tampa Bay area.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Beth-El Farmworker Ministry, located in Wimauma, a farming community south of Tampa, is a Presbyterian mission that has been serving farmworkers throughout Hillsborough County since 1976. The Ministry offers a food pantry, a dental clinic, a diaper program, a sanctuary for worship and a thrift store, where people can buy items such as clothing, hygiene products and laundry detergent. 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We served about 650 to 700 households per week before the pandemic. 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By comparison, the mean hourly wage for farmworkers in California was $20.98 an hour, and the national mean was $17.88 an hour.<\/p>\n

A belief in the value of service work runs deep in Eastman Leaders. When he was in high school in Los Angeles, Jerome Wolfgang Isaac Uy, a senior marine science<\/a> and environmental studies<\/a> student, volunteered to distribute books to underprivileged children. \u201cAny community service,\u201d he says, wiping paint from his hands, \u201cis important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kayla Rendon-Torres, a junior biology student from Austin, Texas, who also is an ambassador for Eckerd\u2019s Center for Inclusive Excellence, explains how her grandfather and several uncles, whose family immigrated from Mexico and worked as migrant farmworkers, would tell her stories about picking fruits and vegetables all day for little money. \u201cBeing a Latina, I want to see what that experience is like, to connect more with this community. It\u2019s a very powerful feeling.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to be aware of where our food comes from,\u201d Kayla adds. \u201cAnd of the people who work every day to get it to us. Then hopefully we can grow more empathetic and supportive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eckerd students plan to return to Beth-El in late March for three days of service work as part of Porter\u2019s Office of Service Learning Food Security, Migration and Partnership spring break project<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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