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Religious Organizations

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Please click on the appropriate page link at left to share the following: = = =For my service, I worked at the Westtown School whose address is 975 Westtown Road, West Chester, PA 19382. To contact T. Deb Wood, the director of this collection, please call 610-399-7685 or email her at Deb.Wood@Westtown.edu. For my service project, I collected clothing, shoes and tolitries from upper school students that they didn't need or want for orginizations such as Safe Harbor of West Chester or Goodwill. This is a good thing to do becuase it helps orginizations to give more items out to people in need, like warmer clothes and shoes for the cold season.=
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 * advice you would give others considering or planning to do this project
 * your name and school year (2011-2012)

Journal Entry: 6/7/11
== Today I met teacher Deb and Phfluger in her office to start our collecting. We then went to Balderston kitchen where the 9th and 10th live to collect items. After gathering the few items that there were, we walked up to stone house. This is where the 9th and 10thgrade boys live and we went in to collect the items and this is where we found success with 3 bags. After gathering these, we went back to the school where I went to the girl’s dorms to get the clothes, and Phfluger went to collect the items from the boy’s dorms. After collecting that, we went back to the old track room to sort through the items and separate them into piles. ==

This service project was really easy to plan and do. One of the reasons was becuase it's at school which made it conveinent and fun. Julia Richards (2011-2012)
===For my service project I worked with Calvary Lutheran Church. It is located at 730 New Street in West Chester, PA. You can contact the youth group leader at ramon.smith@clcwc.org. I helped with various service projects through my church. I helped to babysit kids, rake leaves for the elderly, sing songs for the elderly, decorate the church for Christmas, serve food to people from my church, and be a waiter for a Christmas tea. These all helped out people in various ways, mainly by making people happy. None of the things we did were absolutely necessary, but people were really glad for what we did.===

Journal Entry
===Today I helped to decorate my church for Christmas. We started out setting up a small fake tree (we didn’t have any real ones) in the basement that we decorated with a ton of ornaments that had been made by the Sunday school classes. We also set up the lights on the tree, which would later cause a problem. Then we went to another room in the basement, but we didn’t have the tree, so I went upstairs and the ladies who were in charge of the supplies gave me a tree. I brought it downstairs, but the box didn’t have a base in it, so everyone else unpacked and sorted the branches while I went back upstairs to get a base. They didn’t have any extra bases there, so we had to go to the attic to find one. I brought it back down, and the base didn’t fit right, but it was the best we had so we just dealt with it. === ===The advice I would give to people looking to do anything similar would be to do it with friends, because that will help time go by faster and let the project actually be fun, while not distracting you from the main goal. ===

Hayden Quintana (2011-2012)
For my service project I worked with the Westtown Meeting and with Westtown School. Westtown School is located at 975 Westtown Rd, West Chester PA, 19380. You are able to contact T. Deb Wood by calling 610-399-7685 or email her at the fallowing address __ deb.Wood@Westtown.edu __. For the service I completed I collected clothing, shoes, and other items like towels.

Once I collected the items we organized them by type and then we bagged them all up, and put them outside for pickup. Safe Harbor was the place we donated all of the clothing, and the shoes went to Nike reuse a shoe program. It was a good thing to do because it provided many people clothing.

Today I had to lug all of the clothing outside. It took about 2 hours. First I had to bring it all down stairs and down the hall way. Then I thought about the elevator, so we used it. We finally brought everything down when my hands started hurting.



The advice I would give to others considering or planning to do this project is one do what I did in the hot attic, get lemonade from the kitchen. And work hard and organize well.

**William Pflueger (2011-2012) **