Volunteer Service Review
Love and happiness increase as much as we share. Shall we listen to vivid stories about volunteer services?
Young Adults’ Passion Cleans the World
On November 30, 2017, we held a cleanup with the slogan “Mother’s Street” behind the Quezon City City Hall. The volunteers were mostly young adults. Whenever we passed by, people asked us where we were from and what we were…
Sharina Aya Z. Gorospe from Quezon City, Philippines
Planting Tree Seedlings
The Canoas Zion planned to perform a voluntary service together with the Department of Environment of the Municipality of Canoas. Our job was to plant tree seedlings in a park. On the day of the event, we met early in…
Bruna Carvalho de Lima from Canoas, Brazil
Pleasant and Happy Volunteer Service
The Baltimore Church visited the Sunrise of Silver Spring, an assisted living facility, to cheer up senior citizens living there by performing various songs and dances at the end of the year. Many of the residents clapped, tapped their feet,…
Melissa Hutchins from Baltimore, MD, U.S.
People Who Make Differences
In April, 2016, there was a record-breaking rainfall in Houston. About 500 mm [19.7 in] of rain poured, which is the six-month amount of rain in Korea. In Greenspoint, located in North Houston, the water rose up to over 30…
Houston Church, TX, U.S.
Love & Unity
I heard the news that we would have a Worldwide Blood Drive to Give Life Through the Love of the Passover. Just in time, it was my class-free day, so I joined it. Since it was a good opportunity to…
Goh Na-young from Busan, South Korea
A Small Good Deed, Big Touching Waves
The day before our cleanup, there was a heavy rain. We were worried that it was going to continue raining and make it hard for us to carry out our cleanup. However, it stopped raining and the skies were very…
The Brasilia Church in Brazil
With Mother’s Mind and Mother’s Hands
Around noon on April 25, 2015, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Nepal. All of a sudden, everything began to shake, and it seemed like the sky was falling and the ground was sinking. The members who were having a peaceful Sabbath…
Tejendra Gautam from Kathmandu, Nepal
Volunteer Service, a Special Time
One Sunday in December, around two hundred student members, young adult members, male and female adult members from the Donghae, Samcheok, and Gangneung Zions gathered together in a hilly village by Mukho Port in Donghae, Gangwon Province, Korea. We gathered…
Hong Sun-tae from Gangneung, South Korea
A Beautiful Mind
With the hope of giving our neighbors in need even a little bit of help so they could get through the winter, we planned a volunteer service to deliver the warmth of Mother’s love with Zion members. It was to…
Choi Yun-heui from Daegu, South Korea
In the Apple Orchard
Whenever the harvest season comes, farmers need a lot of helping hands. They are so busy that Koreans describe the situation this way: “Even a poker which is used for stirring the fire has no time to lie on the…
Lee Sahng-hwa from Daegu, South Korea
At the Flood Recovery Site
At the end of this summer, the southern part of Korea was hit by regional torrential rains. Even people who had lived in Busan for a long time said that they had never seen that much rain. Since it was…
Wahng Ga-ram from Busan, South Korea
Digging Out Potatoes
On Sunday, May 25, we went out to help a potato farm as it was a harvest season. As you can find it everywhere nationwide, farming villages are shorthanded during their busy season. So we couldn’t miss the opportunity to…
Kim Dong-ho From Tongyeong, South Korea
Giving Love in a Lunch Box
I am a young adult—a youth like the dew of the dawn with full of energy. But it sometimes puts me to shame and I feel sorry to people around me. At home, I just eat at the table that…
Lee Si-won from Seoul, South Korea
Good Deeds Open People’s Hearts
We, the Wolpi Church in Ansan, clean up streets every month. Since we don’t carry out volunteer services in a cursory way, residents, store owners, and street cleaners near the church compliment us. This time, we cleaned up Seongpo Art…
Yu Hui-sun from Ansan, South Korea
We Share the Warmth of Love
My husband and I volunteered to deliver coal briquettes. I was filled with emotions as it had been a long time since I had last attended that volunteer service due to some reasons. On the day before the event, with…
Kim Hyeon-kyeong from Gangneung, South Korea
Dusting Out Every Nook and Corner
The Delaware Zion members cleaned several playgrounds in Newark on the last Sunday of January. The playgrounds were located in a good neighborhood, and so we thought it wouldn’t take much work to clean up. But it turned out they…
The Church of God in Delaware, OH, U.S.
Better Is Two than One, Three than Two
You can often see trash and graffiti in many streets of Recife, Brazil. Regular cleanups were needed, but it was more urgent to change the way people think about the environment. That’s why we visited a TV station before the…
The Recife Church in Brazil
Volunteer Service = Joy² + Thankfulness²
I heard the news that the college students of our church were to do a street cleanup in the afternoon on a weekday. I eagerly wanted to participate, but I had a job without flexibility. The opportunity came to me…
Park Su-bin from Seoul, South Korea
The Most Beautiful Mind, Devotaion For Life
A few months ago, some members from the Lima Church in Peru donated noodles, rice, sugar, oil, and water to volunteer fire fighters. When we asked what kind of food they needed, they answered with excitement, “We all like noodles…
Elton Wilson Zelaya from Lima, Peru
Helping Ginger Harvest
When it was still early in the morning, I went to Zion in a hurry because we planned to go to the city of Andong and help harvest gingers. Gingers are one of the essential ingredients of kimchi and are…
Choi Yun-hee from Daegu, South Korea