Because we finished our porch yesterday, our crew got to do
something different today and work at a free food market. Serving the people who needed help was fun,
but the best part of the job was talking to another volunteer. She seemed to take so much pride in her work
and helping others, and I was surprised when she told me that a mission group
had actually worked on a porch for her trailer recently, which is exactly the
type of work we had been doing. Even
though she needed help (she actually brought home some food herself) she still
took the time to serve her neighbors.
After we finished we went to a local ice cream shop that was similar to
Custard Time. As we waited in line and
ordered a woman asked us what we were here for, so Amy told her about our
mission trip. As it turns out, that
woman had work done on her house by mission trip kids 11 or 12 years ago and
just happened to be in town to visit her sister and pick up furniture with her
grandson, who is my age and will start at Ohio University in the fall. She was so appreciative of what we were doing
and paid for all of our ice creams as a thank you, making Amy keep the extra
money left over to use for something else on the trip. What really struck me was seeing how thankful
and kind she was all these years later, and just the fact that she now has the
extra money to be able to give $40 to us made me so happy. She said, “I was meant to be here and you
were meant to be here today, and what you’re doing is really good.”
-Rachel McIlvaine
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