Augustinian Volunteers Research Paper

At church, in addition to my participation in the worship services, I volunteered at our church’s soup kitchen, medical camps and elementary school for underprivileged children. These experiences opened my eyes to the deprivation of love and care in the world and a dire need of God’s grace for people at large so they could receive forgiveness, healing and restoration in their lives.

I have been involved with several service activities throughout my life. Some of the more recent services that I have participated in include: Helping set up and helping teach underprivileged children at the Children's Defense Fund Freedom School. Here I volunteered my time during the summer helping set up the classrooms and supplies, moving and unpacking and organizing; supplies, food, and donations the summer program. I also helped out this summer program by checking people in and out, guiding and directing people where to go, and unload and load the children onto the busses. During the summer I also volunteered a week of my time to be a “buddy” to a special olympiad at their Special Olympics Athletic Retreat. Being a “buddy” included self regulation, chaperoning on field trips one on one, assisted with self care skills when they where needed. Also this summer I volunteered my time for four weeks being a counselor in training at the Stowe YMCA. This included reading to the campers, helping serve meals to the campers, Chaperoning on field trips with the campers and being camp counselors to campers in grades pre-k through fifth grade. I also have been participating on my temple’s youth group advisory board. There I help determine, plan, organize, and run group activities and social events for the youth groups. I have been doing this for the past three years. This group also partakes in several community service projects throughout the

My prominent lady of choice from the Colorado progressive era is Frances Wisebart Jacobs. Francis moved to Denver, Colorado in 1870 with her husband Abraham and their two children. Upon moving here Francis began to notice that in the Jewish Community their were a lot of people that were suffering from diseases or famine. She decided she wanted to help the people so in 1872, she established what was called the Hebrew Ladies' Relief Society. However, not long after starting the Hebrew Ladies' Relief Society, Francis began noticing other people from different cultures were affected by the same diseases and famine. So she then decided to form other organizations to help others. She went on to start the Denver Ladies' Relief Society, the very first

My major will be secondary education and later on I hope to be an NFL pro scout. The role of a teacher is to help students apply notions, such as math, English, history and science through classroom teaching and demonstrations. Their role is also to formulate lessons, grade papers, lead the classroom, communicate with parents, and work closely with their colleagues to achieve success in the

On the church history tour, I had the opportunity to see American History sites. While there, our leaders asked that we looked for the hand of God in the building of this country.

In October 1927, the first ever North American Christian Convention was held in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was one of many conventions that was held at the time and are held still to this day. Throughout this time, the North American Christian Convention has grown and developed, but how did it all begin and how has history shaped it into becoming what it is today? Throughout this paper I will be discussing the different events and people, that shaped and molded the North American Christian Convention into what it is today.

Even before the Pilgrims had arrived in America, they had dreams for what was to become of their new lives. What these soon-to-be Americans were dreaming of freedom, especially for their religion. In England, they had become Separatists after leaving the Church of England, which was considered a crime. This group of approximately four hundred emigrated to Holland to escape. However, they were unsatisfied by their life in Leiden, Holland. Their children were becoming Dutch. In order to keep their English life and nationality, they decided to go to the New World. They were “willing to endure almost anything if it meant they could worship as they pleased”(4 Philbrick). In order to go to the New World, the Pilgrims had to leave behind

Most of the potential competition for jobs in the work force for graduates of Liberty are students from other colleges and universities. However, those students must be self-motivated to volunteer as many times it isn’t required for them to volunteer during their time as a student. While at Liberty, students are required to do so. Since, nowadays, more employers are looking for potential employees that have dedicated their time to activities outside of their college studies, CSER puts Liberty University students ahead of the competition. Many college students are overwhelmed by academics and a desire to maintain their social lives, so volunteering can often be pushed to the wayside and ruled out as not as important. This can also display that Liberty University students can balance academics, social life, and volunteer hours. This shows potential employers that Liberty University graduates have a strong work ethic, can multitask efficiently, and be dedicated to whatever the task at hand is. Also, biblically, God intends for his children to serve others. In James 2:14-17, the author discusses the importance of giving of one’s self for helping another. Christians are also instructed to serve others as God would have, as stated in Peter 5:2. CSER allows for Liberty students to not only fulfill biblical command, but also to be a vessel for God to reach

Throughout the past four years I have had the fortunate pleasure to immerse myself in many extracurricular activities; however, one service project has truly changed my high school experience for the better. The summer before my sophomore year I volunteered as a teacher aide for my local parish's religious education classes. A month before the classes began I received a call from the administrator asking if I would work one-on-one with a third-grade boy with special needs. As a fifteen-year-old, I had very little experience working with children with autism; however, with the help of the young boy's former instructor and the administrator, I felt reassured that I had the ability to help this young boy who was so eager to learn about his faith.

“I want to help change the lives of people in need, build relationships with my group members, and serving brings joy to my heart because I get to bring joy and peace to the lives of others,” said Waveney Brooks, a volunteer from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “This isn’t my first service trip, I have been on other service trips with my church like two years ago, and I went to Guatemala to help in their medical clinic and helped build a school.”

She said that at College Wesleyan Church, the staff aspires to see the volunteers go past the school walls and help support the child’s life. Alcock said the

During this week, I read an interesting book “Big four” wrote by Dr kidder. This reading assignment helps me see how the ministry can be fruitful when you are willing to commit your life to Christ completely.in the beginning of this book he point out the two things that every members desired about church. The thought church is an exciting place to do ministry and experience the grace of God in community.in addition, the want their church to be a place where people can find they love of Jesus Christ.

It also highlights the importance of giving, rather than receiving; it teaches us that spending our time helping others can strengthen our relationships with those in need and also strengthens our relationship with God and our

We can see within our own nation the oppression of those who are not citizens unable to access the benefits of our nation, struggling in their poverty. Though it may not be possible to objectively liberate them, it is possible to subjectively liberate them so that they might benefit and be a benefit to society through the teaching and embodiment of the law. It is the kingdom of God that brings blessing to the cooperatives and students in East Africa who have learned and are learning the word of God in such a way their lives embody the teachings making them a benefit to the society in which they live. The nation in which they lived while benefiting from them ,did not benefit them. This is painfully seen as they teach for the government schools often without receiving payment due to them for their services. Subjectively liberating them through teaching of the law began the change of their mindset of the government's taking care of them and brought about liberation in some ways, as they moved from home and even jobs to the community. They began putting their faith in the kingdom of God and have become a benefit to each other within the community and their surrounding neighbors. Their work at St. John’s Primary School, their care of the widows in the area, and their thriving community of homes and fields bringing forth life all around them, are the feet of the obeying and teaching of the commandments that are subjectively liberating the people of that community. They still live in a land full of poverty where basic human needs are not met, people suffer and mourn, but there is hope as they begin to live out the commandments in such a way that real needs are being met and the society is

Here at St. Anthony’s, we believe that helping the poor and suffering is our duty, not a choice. The opportunities to help are endless. We have food drives during the festive season, diaper drives to help single mothers, and toy drives to supply homeless children with a Christmas gift. Everyone is expected to join in to help and we all gladly help anyway that we can. Another alternative to help others through school is Christian Service Hours. These entail completing five hours of service that benefit the community. We can volunteer at basically any place that, in some way, helps others in need of it. I am proud to say that I go to a school that demonstrates and practices the quality of a good people.