Helping with Katrina Relief at Church
At church this past Sunday Joy and I signed up to donate time and goods to the Relief effort. So we were happy to receive an e-mail a few days ago telling us about one of the first ways that Joy could help as an organizer/coordinator — Data Entry!
OK, so it wasn’t really coordinating anything just yet, and it didn’t require much organization, but doing data entry is the first step to getting things coordinated so we can match up people willing to help with tasks that need to be done and people who need stuff.
So, Joy wrote back and told the church that she would volunteer from noon to 8PM, and that I would be coming along with her for one of those two hour shifts to help out too. So, yesterday at noon we drove over to the church and started inputting all this information into an internet-based database. It was fun, and probably just what Joy had been wanting for a while.
Joy always wants to spend time with me, but I always want to be active and doing something when we hang out. I feel weird or unproductive or something (I don’t know) when we just sit around doing nothing. So, we have thought of a lot of things to do since we’ve gotten married, and doing community service together was one of our favorite ideas.
Even though sitting in front of two computers next to each other wasn’t fun for long periods of time, we did get to sit, talk to each other, “hang out,” AND get something done. I was happy. Joy was happy. I am thinking that we’ll be doing more of this type of thing again in the future.
Oh, and to top it off. At one point we went to take a break. I can’t omit this part! Joy has found a puppy store that is a block away from our church. She loves puppies and really loves to visit this store and see all the puppies there. So I just had to go and see all these puppies with her, and I did. Good David.
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