Our church has a day each Fall where we go out and serve our community. It is our family's favorite day in the church year! As many of you know, we are now home schooling Luke (due to several circumstances) and as his assignment today, he had to write a paper about his experience on Great Day of Service. I thought some of you might enjoy reading it.
Every year, our church gathers to go to different places to help others in our Great Day of Service. This year’s was on Saturday, October 4, 2008. Our group went to help the Ronald McDonald house in Greenville, SC near the hospital. The Ronald McDonald house is for people that have children in the hospital and can not afford a hotel to stay in.
The week before we went, I spent my time making cards for the people in the Ronald McDonald House. I drew Fred and Wilma Flintstone, Popeye, Odie, Lightening McQueen, and Scooby Doo on the front of my cards. I thought the cartoons would be cool and funny to cheer the kids up. On the inside, I wrote a Bible verse to tell them about Jesus and how much He loved them.
That Saturday, our job was to help at the house in whatever way they needed. We served the families breakfast. We served them eggs, biscuits, sausage, bacon, granola bars, homemade cinnamon rolls, muffins, egg casserole and fruit along with fresh orange juice and coffee. It looked tasty. After breakfast, we went outside to do yard work. We pulled weeds, picked up trash, cleaned up brush around the dumpster. We washed the fences. It looked really nice when we were finished. I had a good time and I can’t wait until next year’s Great Day of Service.
There are many people hurting out there. It is good to do things like this to help us keep our own lives in perspective.
2 comments:
way to go luke!!!!
Great essay, Luke! Sorry to hear about circumstances that have made homeschooling necessary again.
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