Thursday, January 22, 2009
project serve
Ignite participated in its annual Project Serve fundraiser on Monday. Project Serve is kind of a big deal. Basically, all 70 staff members meet in a parking lot on campus early in the morning on MLK day and go out from there to volunteer at various organizations around the city. In the afternoon, we all regroup and head out to the site where our August retreat will be held and do some clean-up around the site for a few hours after lunch. The fundraising part comes in when each staff member tells their respective network about our volunteer efforts in case they feel led to donate money to Ignite and its mission. As the Fundraising Exec for Ignite, my joy and my challenge was to plan, organize and coordinate all logistics for this service day during Christmas break.
Going into Project Serve, I felt like no matter how well I prepared, things were going to go wrong. After all, what else should I have expected from trying coordinate 70 people? But man, was I wrong. Aside from a few very minor things, everything went off without a hitch! Nearly everyone showed up on time, no one got lost (that I heard about), I got some heart-warming feedback from the staff about their morning activities at the different volunteer sites, and the organizations we went to were very pleased with our service.
It is hard to describe the immense feeling of satisfaction I get from seeing God's hand of blessing on my efforts to plan, organize, and coordinate these Ignite fundraisers. I can't help but feel really proud of what was accomplished through my God-given commitment and dedication to serve Ignite and the freshmen we will receive in the fall. I can definitely call this project a success and I know that God will bless the humility and efforts of the staff with financial provision as well.
Going into Project Serve, I felt like no matter how well I prepared, things were going to go wrong. After all, what else should I have expected from trying coordinate 70 people? But man, was I wrong. Aside from a few very minor things, everything went off without a hitch! Nearly everyone showed up on time, no one got lost (that I heard about), I got some heart-warming feedback from the staff about their morning activities at the different volunteer sites, and the organizations we went to were very pleased with our service.
It is hard to describe the immense feeling of satisfaction I get from seeing God's hand of blessing on my efforts to plan, organize, and coordinate these Ignite fundraisers. I can't help but feel really proud of what was accomplished through my God-given commitment and dedication to serve Ignite and the freshmen we will receive in the fall. I can definitely call this project a success and I know that God will bless the humility and efforts of the staff with financial provision as well.
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