Day 8 Family Promise Banaszak

When I signed up for this class I expected mostly hands-on stuff, like playing with little kids, talking to homeless people, making meals, or anything like that. But the first few days at Family Promise we sorted their donation room. Then, we brought mattresses to and from churches and storage rooms. After that, we copied papers and put them in folders. But now that we're pretty much all done, I wouldn't trade my experience there for anything. There were times when we could play with the kids, and we did make a meal for the families, just not as much as I expected. Which is fine by me! I think something that most people don't realize is that most of the work you're going to do if you chose to live your life serving is behind the scenes work. Even though it may not seem like it, stuff like that sometimes helps even more than interacting with the people. I mean, yeah, playing with little kids and making like six boxes of macaroni is fun, but having fun isn't the point of serving. It's just an added benefit. And I don't even think we did the hardest work there! People are there everyday doing things like typing up papers, cleaning the donation room,  transporting donations back and forth from different shelters, etc. Help is help.