Or mission work, or community service, or whatever you choose to call it, really.
Whether it be spending an hour at the soup kitchen serving meals, donating a can of food, donating an old coat, picking trash off the road, ringing the bell for the Salvation Army, or traveling to a different country to help with some kids (or anything in between) I was wondering if the good folks of 'Charms have ever done any.
The reason I start this topic is that this Sunday (July 4th) I'm leaving for something called Appalachia Service Project. Basically, our group gets in a bunch of vans, drives for several hours, and arrives at a city/town in the Appalachian region, and get to work. We stay in what is reffered to as the Center (typically an old school, sometimes a school still in use...one year a group stayed in an abandoned hospital....).
Basically, what we do is work on houses. Sometimes it's roofing, sometimes it's insulating, sometimes you're under a trailer, sometimes you're digging foundations...it can be anything, really. The house I worked on last year was an old trailer, and it was really, really beat up. It's a lot of work, but tons of fun, as well.
I guess the point of this really, (I think I said that twice already) is to see if anybody else has done anything of the sort? Or if you've ever though about it. Or heard a cool story about someone who once did. Discuss
Whether it be spending an hour at the soup kitchen serving meals, donating a can of food, donating an old coat, picking trash off the road, ringing the bell for the Salvation Army, or traveling to a different country to help with some kids (or anything in between) I was wondering if the good folks of 'Charms have ever done any.
The reason I start this topic is that this Sunday (July 4th) I'm leaving for something called Appalachia Service Project. Basically, our group gets in a bunch of vans, drives for several hours, and arrives at a city/town in the Appalachian region, and get to work. We stay in what is reffered to as the Center (typically an old school, sometimes a school still in use...one year a group stayed in an abandoned hospital....).
Basically, what we do is work on houses. Sometimes it's roofing, sometimes it's insulating, sometimes you're under a trailer, sometimes you're digging foundations...it can be anything, really. The house I worked on last year was an old trailer, and it was really, really beat up. It's a lot of work, but tons of fun, as well.
I guess the point of this really, (I think I said that twice already) is to see if anybody else has done anything of the sort? Or if you've ever though about it. Or heard a cool story about someone who once did. Discuss