Volunteering
Published on Nov 15, 2019
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I used to think that volunteering my time was pointless, it wouldn't make a difference in the world because I am just one small person.
I was proven wrong when I began volunteering over 20 hours a week to my church.
This is my journey of turning volunteering into something fun rather something we dread.
I began volunteering by simply serving 2 Sunday's a month in the tech area at my church. This took me a couple of months to get into after I started attending my new church. It was easy, all I has to do was press some buttons and only give a few hours a week and it was a great start for the long road a head
Then after a few months of only
serving a couple times a month
I decided I wanted to do more.
I began serving in tech every Sunday, working with the program Propresenter, almost like PowerPoint.
This was perfect for me at the time because I was helping out my church but I didn't have a ton of responsibilities.
When I started serving I avoided working in kids areas and helping out with our youth group on Wednesday nights. After four months of serving in tech, I decided to take that next step and volunteer in the kids programs because no one wanted to help in those areas so I knew that would benefit the church.
After I became for involved with the church and began serving all of the time, I got invited to help with this big conference we were hosting. I was beyond excited for this, I was going to make a difference is so many
peoples lives. I got to help set it all up, which included organizing, cleaning, grabbing food, setting everything
up, which these are all things I enjoy doing. This was a great experience and I got to learn a bunch of leadership skills, along with learning new things about myself as well.
This event was a big moment for myself, and I enjoyed every second of it. We had a week long program for middle school and high school kids, we had games and food, the whole thing. I got to be a leader at this event, and even planned a majority of it.
After many months of serving and volunteering hundreds of hours I decided to apply for an unpaid internship at my church. This included most of the responsibilities I already had, such as serving on Sunday's but now I got to help make decisions and learn how to become a better leader especially within my church. I enjoy being in charge of volunteers while volunteering myself because now I can get people to see how amazing it is to volunteer.
My internship grew into even more responsibilities and helping out within my church. I began taking over our Midland Campus, which is one out of the three campuses the church has. I became a coordinator, which means I'm there to train, delegate tasks, set up, tear down, and make sure everything runs smoothly. This was a great experience since I am going into management and this is pretty close.
Now after my internship ends, I will continue my volunteer work at the church. I will become a part time volunteer employee, I will become the director of the Midland campus.
So now anything with Midland
will go through me, I will be
in charge of everything
which will help take
some stress off of
other people and I
will get some
more skills from
doing this.
I highly recommend giving up some of your time to helps others, volunteer at the place you practice religion, help your community, or those less fortunate. These activities I have done for my church have been amazing, the best experience of my life so far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTwSNrDn0kw
Check out this video to see what volunteering can do for you!
Also check out Life Church Michigan's YouTube videos to learn a lot about what I experienced!
https://www.youtube.com/user/LifeChurchMichigan
Photo by ray sangga kusuma
