My personal experience with community service is very limited. Through my church group and my school we would serve meals at the homeless shelter various times during the year. We would be at the shelter for increments of five hours at a time. Two hours were allotted to prepare parts of the meal, another two were used for serving food, and the last hour was used for cleaning up the kitchen and dining area. The only other community service I have done was through my high school Science Club; we would walk around the neighborhood and pick up garbage. To sum up, I have technically done many hours of community service, but lack a broad variety of service experience. Community service in general is very good at helping people with an immediate
