Arlene Bowers Andrews, John Culp, and Art Dexter—Send Me! The Story of Salkehatchie Summer Service • ISBN:1-57736-380-9 • $29.95 • 352 pages • softcover • 6 x 9 • Imprint: PHP
Come celebrate. Celebrate thirty years of lives renewed and changed as homes are restored. Celebrate thousands of young people cheerfully sweating and toiling in harsh conditions while serving the poorest of South Carolina’s poor. Celebrate bonds made between local families in need and volunteers who learn that they get even more than they give. Celebrate Salkehatchie Summer Service, a mission of the United Methodist Church—South Carolina Conference, from its 1978 beginning of one camp for forty teen and adult
volunteers to its more than forty-one camps and over twenty-seven hundred volunteers annually. Come celebrate Send Me! The Story
of Salkehatchie Summer Service, and discover the stories, people, places, and blessings of a unique program that changes living
conditions, lives, and hearts.
ARLENE BOWERS ANDREWS is a fifteen-year veteran of Salkehatchie Summer Service. A
psychologist and social worker, she is a professor of social work and the former director of the Institute for Families in Society at the University of South Carolina. REVEREND JOHN W. CULP is an ordained United Methodist Church minister and the founder of Salkehatchie Summer Service. He currently serves as pastor of Virginia Wingard Memorial United Methodist Church in Columbia, South Carolina. A former physicist and research scientist, ARTHUR "ART" DEXTER was one of Salkehatchie’s earliest adult volunteers. Before his death in 2005, he served at twelve Salkehatchie camps.