Meals On Wheels Reflection Paper

Firstly, I chose to complete my sixteen hours of community service through my church, Spring Creek Baptist Church, and an elderly assistance program called Meals on Wheels. At my church, I did janitorial work, primarily cleaning the kitchen and sanctuary. I would say the reason I chose my church to complete my community service hours was because it has played a major role in my life and been a place that I felt safe. Going to this church has always been a sort of sanctuary for me and something about just being there relaxes me. Honestly, I have been volunteering in the church since I was a little kid, but this time it was different. This time I was not simply doing it because I wanted to, but because I had to. On top of that, I had to tell people, people that I know and have grown up with, what I had done. I had to face the consequences of what I had to done in an extremely real way and it was terrifying. If I have taken anything away

Meals on Wheels is a wonderful non-profit organization that provides delicious food and assistance to elderly men and women who are no longer able to provide for themselves, whether for financial or physical reasons. Once a week, you are given a route in your area with several homes which you are to provide a week’s worth of food to. It has always been interesting to me the diversity between the places we deliver the food to, everywhere from million dollar homes in the Woodlands to rundown apartment complexes. Also, the diversity between the people we were delivering the food to. For some of them, the Meals on Wheels volunteers were literally the only human interaction they had throughout their week, while some of them had family living with them full-time. Some were warm and welcoming, loving for nothing more than to tell us about their valiant son risking his life in the Marines, while others would have loved nothing more than for us to drop the food off at the front