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My Community Service Experience

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Being a volunteer member was the best experience I’ve ever had. Throughout the community service time my perspective has changed even though it was only 30 hours of community service. My community service place was at PACS, which is a place that sells some used clothes, shoes, and other useful stuff at low prices to homeless people or poor people. My job was to organize all the clothes and clean it up (goods and processing). Even though most of their stuff were used, we needed to clean it and only keep the best quality items. There were about 20 -40 volunteers’ total at PACS. Many people were willing to help others and they were real friendly. Since our customers were mostly homeless people or poor people, I have learned how I can help the homeless people. Even though I can’t help them with money, I realized that I can use my little time to help them. Before I started my community service, I couldn’t fully understand other people’s situation. Honestly, I did not love them, especially those people who wear dirty clothes and people who smell bad. However, while I was serving them, I figured it out that all people are the same. It doesn’t matter what their situations was or what they look like. There are no differences between homeless people and us. In Matthew 19:19, it says “Love your neighbor as yourself”. Also I learned how to be a positive person in every situation. I was not fully thankful in my situation. I had few things that I hated in my life. However, now I know that I am a blessed person just like others. God has given us a great environment and we are living through God’s gift. Even those people who are starving, they are always smiling unlike me. I felt embarrassed in how I felt like how I didn’t like my life. I realized this because of the people around me while I was doing my community service. Some volunteers were handicapped people and some of them were elderly people, but they were always smiling and

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