The Importance Of Service In Southern Virginia, Mclean Bible Church

Service can be seen as a burden, or as an enlightening experience. This year I began to comprehend the impact service can have, if you put your heart into it. This year I learned why service is important, how service can change me, and how God's face can be seen in service. For people who serve it is evident that the more you work God, the more you want to work for God, and the better you feel about it. I attend a massive church, one of the biggest in northern Virginia, McLean Bible Church. For my service, I chose to serve three times for long periods of time, rather than many short times. The first time I served I helped to organize food in the food pantry, so that my church's outreach program could deliver it to the people who needed it. Following that, the second time I served I organized clothes so that the outreach program could give it to people who needed …show more content…
Because I go to such a big church, so many articles of clothes, and items of food were donated, but I couldn't help but notice that not very many people came to serve. I learned why it was important to serve my first week there, because we could receive as much food as we wanted, but without people organizing and delivering it, it would be worthless. I realized that all the people donating food were nice people.., but the real people shining God's light were the people serving early Saturday, for no other reason then they wanted to. At first I did not feel apart of the service community very much, because I didn't know anyone because on Sunday I do not usually speak to anyone, but by the third week I felt like I was apart of it. The third week I went to serve ready to finish my hours and get it over with,