Edwardsville Food Pantry Reflection

For my service hours this year, I went to the Collinsville KC to serve meals for veterans and families of veterans. I helped at the Edwardsville Food Pantry moving and organizing different types of canned or packaged meals. I went to the St. Mary’s auction and served meals and helped with the auction. Lastly I went to the Edwardsville library, and I helped set up crafts and helped the kids out while they did their craft I also helped do some other little things around there. The day I went to the Collinsville KC, I fulfilled the corporal work of feeding the hungry. By helping serve the food, I felt like I was doing more than just serving food. I was thanking the veterans by showing my support to serve them. I felt that God was working through all the volunteers,
Just like at the KC hall, I felt that I was making a difference in someone's life, even if it wasn’t directly. I knew that the food that we were stocking would benefit someone even if I wouldn’t get to see it first hand. This day was my favorite service, because it was a bunch of guys that got together to do something good for the community and it was awesome to see how God brought these guys together for a great cause. When I went to St. Mary’s, I didn’t necessarily feel that I was impacting the community in a huge way, but I still felt that without my help, it would have been a difficult event to hold without volunteers. With that in mind, I do feel that I did something to help the overall success of the event. The last hours that I completed were at the Edwardsville library, and I liked to do this because I definitely felt that I was having an impact on someone's life. I fulfilled the corporal work of instructing the ignorant, by teaching and assisting the kids with crafts. I enjoyed helping the kids, because it made me feel that I was really helping, and made an impact on their experience, or even if it made their