We as Christians have a duty to fulfill. That is to portray the work, legacy, and mercy of our savior and God. As part of our Christian Ethics course at Bishop James Mahoney we are challenged and required to illustrate the meaning of what it is like to be a Christian and what our faith is really supposed to be about. Each student is required to fill a minimum of 10 service hours, a minimum of five hours that pertain to the corporal works of mercy and the rest volunteering in our community and serving others. We are also challenged to go beyond that minimum and not have a mindset of “it’s just an assignment” rather to discover something else within that one might not have known was there and make a lifestyle change to be more giving.
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The best experiences that I found were really interesting went on throughout the days of me helping out there. They were the stories that the residents told. I was at the houses over Remembrance Day and that week and I based some of the activities that I had done on the topic of remembrance. One lady grew up in England and went into the army at age 17. She was one of the many nurses working in the army at the time. She told me different stories about her time in the army and some of the things that she had endured while saving some of the men’s lives. There was another lady who was 103 years old who told me that she had grown up in England as well, and her family had come to Canada for a better life. Her father and two brothers were just about to go out and fight in the First World War, and the war had ended the day that they were going to leave to fight. She told me this a day before she had passed away. Some of the days were not all that easy either. I would always try to include and try to encourage the residents to participate but sometimes they would not, and it would drain you mentally. I was warned and knew that some days some of the residents would have company, fall and be hurt/sick, or not feel up to it but I had to adjust to the situations that I was put …show more content…
As said in Matthew 5:16 “In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven”, I think this is why all of us are here, so that we can proclaim our love to the Lord through helping our fellow brothers and sisters! I felt I portrayed this in my volunteering through spreading good works and helping for nothing in return but giving glory to Him every day. Every day before I’d go to volunteer and even in the summer to work there, I would pray that God would guide me through the day, and show me how he was working through me to help these people, and that he would grant good health to the residents at the houses. God sees everything that we do and is always with us in our lives. He much more appreciates when we use Him and define Him in a light of good rather than evil. Everyone should use this as a model when ploughing through
The best experiences that I found were really interesting went on throughout the days of me helping out there. They were the stories that the residents told. I was at the houses over Remembrance Day and that week and I based some of the activities that I had done on the topic of remembrance. One lady grew up in England and went into the army at age 17. She was one of the many nurses working in the army at the time. She told me different stories about her time in the army and some of the things that she had endured while saving some of the men’s lives. There was another lady who was 103 years old who told me that she had grown up in England as well, and her family had come to Canada for a better life. Her father and two brothers were just about to go out and fight in the First World War, and the war had ended the day that they were going to leave to fight. She told me this a day before she had passed away. Some of the days were not all that easy either. I would always try to include and try to encourage the residents to participate but sometimes they would not, and it would drain you mentally. I was warned and knew that some days some of the residents would have company, fall and be hurt/sick, or not feel up to it but I had to adjust to the situations that I was put …show more content…
As said in Matthew 5:16 “In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven”, I think this is why all of us are here, so that we can proclaim our love to the Lord through helping our fellow brothers and sisters! I felt I portrayed this in my volunteering through spreading good works and helping for nothing in return but giving glory to Him every day. Every day before I’d go to volunteer and even in the summer to work there, I would pray that God would guide me through the day, and show me how he was working through me to help these people, and that he would grant good health to the residents at the houses. God sees everything that we do and is always with us in our lives. He much more appreciates when we use Him and define Him in a light of good rather than evil. Everyone should use this as a model when ploughing through