Religion 10 Term Project

What did I do?
For my required 5 hours I did three different things. For two hours I aided my church in the cleanup and furnishing of our church house, which (along with the main building) we will be selling at the end of June. I helped wash windows, clean heat registers, and assembled a toilet paper holder and a set of window blinds. After that I spent an hour folding pamphlets for the school to distribute to preschools and daycares in an effort to get more students to come here next year. Then I spent two hours involved in another school project; we baked cookies for the first hour, and for the second we walked to Fernbrae Manor and distributed them to the elderly people residing there.

How is this different from what I did in November for community service?
The last time I did this project, way back in November, everything I did was alone and about half of it was of my own accord. This year I did not plan anything, and everything was done with two or more accomplices. For the cleaning of the church house, I was helped by most of the church. For the folding of the pamphlets, I worked with Nicole and Luke to make mail-ready envelopes for all the daycares. For the cookies and things, I worked with the entirety of the high school student body (or at least everyone who was present that day, which is not the same thing at all.)

Who did I do this with and did I organize the project myself?
Each of the activities I was involved in benefitted a community in some way. The first two hours were spent helping the people who are going to buy our church and move into the house. The second hour was spent assisting Mrs. Harford and the Daycares the pamphlets were being sent to. The last two hours were spent servicing the people of Fernbrae Manor by giving them lots of yummy cookies.

How did this project change or affect me?
The church building and house are now all cleaned up for the new owners, and the house is no longer falling apart from mold and neglect. The folding of the pamphlets will likely help to increase the number of students who come to this school next year, and it will also help the parents of the children who are looking for a place to put their children. The elderly populace of Fernbrae got to eat delicious chocolate chip cookies and were visited by a group of very nice young people (Okay, the “very nice” bit is debatable.)
This project didn’t really affect me in any long-term fashion. Of course I got that feeling one gets when one does something nice for another, and I snitched a crumbled cookie when we were baking them, but otherwise I am pretty much the same as I was before.

Would I consider repeating this or a similar project in the future?
I would most likely not repeat this project of my own accord. I would happily follow along if a group I was involved with did something like it, but actively seeking out such things are not something I am likely to do. Mission Trips to faraway places, however, are an exception- I would certainly want to go on one of those.

Is this something I want to do for a living?
This last question is kind of a strange one; One cannot make a living off of this, as one of the requirements of the project were that one must not benefit from this, either monetarily or through grades or something. Not to mention most ways to make a living benefit the community in some way, so technically all jobs could be called community service. However if the question was asking if I would want to do the specific tasks that I did for a living, then yes, I would gladly take the opportunity to make money baking cookies and giving them to old people. Not so much on the cleaning windows and folding papers for an hour, though.