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Popular Seventh-day Adventist preacher and PUC alumnus Jos茅 Rojas encouraged students to spend a year of their lives in service abroad when he returned to 海角视频 to speak at a special event, Tuesday, October 23.

An internationally sought-after speaker and bestselling author, Rojas is the director of the office of volunteer ministry for the Adventist Church in North America. The office promotes volunteerism through community projects, missions, and other activities.

Citing the biblical call for Christians to be salt in the earth, Rojas drew an analogy between service to others and salt role鈥檚 as a catalyst in melting ice. Saying today鈥檚 students are part of the most advanced generation in history, he appealed for them to use their abilities to become catalysts for change.

鈥淚f your mind is that of a catalyst, if you鈥檙e out to make this world a better place no matter how many people make fun of you for being an idealist鈥攊f you really have a vision for your life鈥攖hen you can turn this world upside down,鈥� he said. 鈥淕o off and be a catalyst around the world for one year of your life.鈥�

He urged students to participate in service and mission opportunities while in college. In addition to the Adventist Church鈥檚 student mission programs, Rojas mentioned government programs such as the Peace Corps for international service and AmeriCorps for domestic volunteerism, as opportunities for service.

鈥淲e have a million American young adults going around the world, across the countries serving, and most of these people don鈥檛 even know Jesus,鈥� he said. 鈥淚t changes your life when you serve. Jesus said, 鈥榠f you really want to know what it means to serve me, do unto the least of the people as you do unto me.鈥� You wanna serve God? Serve people.鈥�

鈥淧UC already has incredible projects鈥攆or the homeless, projects for Calistoga鈥攜ou got stuff going everywhere!鈥� he enthused. 鈥淚 praise God for the vision of this campus which has been steady for many years.鈥�

Rojas also reminisced on living in Newton Hall as a student at PUC from 1978 to 1982. He recounted meeting his wife, a PUC alumna, and getting to know her, exclaiming that he could still remember exactly where they met on campus. 鈥淚 met her here, I鈥檓 emotional about it,鈥� he said.

He grew academically and socially as a PUC student, he said. 鈥淚 owe a lot to PUC, I went in a boy and came out a man. I had a mustache [and] it grew bigger while I was there.鈥�