Week 3 post 2

Describe your past service experience.
My past service experience has all been connected with my church in Aiken. As a youth group, we would go to the local food bank and help out in transporting goods to those in need in our town. Waking up at 6:30 a.m. to participate always almost made me back out of doing it, but I went every time and never regretted it.
Why did you choose to volunteer?
I chose to volunteer because it was an activity that our church asked us to do. Although it crossed my mind many times, backing out just to have a few more hours of sleep on Saturday was a pretty selfish thing to do. So, I didn't really choose to volunteer, I was asked to, and I accepted.
Are there any significant issues or areas you are passionate about?
To be honest, not really. I haven't had enough service experience to be passionate about a certain issue. But I did thoroughly enjoy the work I did helping out the hungry in our area. Even though all we did was bring bags of groceries out to cars, the people receiving the food would look at us like we had just made their week, when it seemed to us we weren't really doing anything. This made doing service completely worth waking up early.
Has any of your service been connected to a course?
Yes and no. Last year our class was required to complete a certain number of hours of community service to complete the class. But I never went out of my way to do service. The work I did for my church was a sufficient number of hours to complete the requirement. So although it was required for a course in the past, I was doing it anyway.