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| This playground is an example of how I
was taught to serve my school. In sixth grade, my school was located in
a shopping center. My classroom was between a Chinese restaurant and
the seventh and eighth grade classrooms. In the classroom, there was a
bucket called "Pennies for the Promised Land." My classmates and I
would bring in our pennies, nickels and dimes and place them into the
bucket. This was to raise money for our new school and playground. At
the end of the year, my classmates and I were able to choose what kind
of playground would be placed at the new school. There are many other ways that Trinity taught its students to serve. For example every year, the Trinity students would participate in Samaritan's Purse. The Samaritan's Purse is an organization that travels all over the world and gives boxes filled with necessities to children who need it. The students were encouraged to decorate shoe boxes and fill them with toys, clothing, and toiletries such as hair brushes and toothe brushes. My friends and I decided to work together and make several boxes. We decorated T-shirts for the children and filled the boxes with pens, pencils, paper, jewelry, hair brushes, and toys. We made about fifteen boxes total. By supporting this organization, my school was able to reach out and help children around the world. It taught me that it is important to help and give to those who are less fortunate. Finally, we helped one of Trinity's graduates who was stationed in Iraq. He wanted to collect soccer balls so that he could give them to the children in Iraq. The students at our school brought in many soccer balls. The soccer balls were deflated and placed in boxes to be shipped to Iraq. We were able to fill several boxes with soccer balls. We were able to not only support an officer in Iraq, but we were able to help the children there as well. Trinity continually teaches its students to serve. Trinity provides many opportunities for its students to become involved in the school community as well as communities around the world. By serving, we are able to help others and to create a more productive society (Putnam). Trinity taught me the importance of looking out for the interest of others rather than only thinking about myself. |
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