It started because one of our members, a first-generation college student named Luis, mentioned offhand that he was failing calculus and couldn't afford a tutor. Three of us offered to help that same night. Word spread. By the next week we had eight students from the surrounding community coming to our Thursday study sessions in the student union. By the end of the semester it was twenty-two, and we'd brought in members from four different majors to cover different subjects. Nobody planned this. Nobody wrote a grant or formed a committee. We just saw a need and filled it with what we had. James 2 says faith without works is dead. I used to read that as a warning. Now I read it as an invitation. Our chapter has never been more unified than when we stopped talking about serving and just started doing it. The tutoring program is still running. Luis passed calculus. He's now one of the tutors.
