Intergenerational Calvin Event - volunteering at reSource Store

 

This past Tuesday, Nov 28th, Calvin's youth group hosted an intergenerational community service opportunity of sorts.  

The youth group volunteered here last year, but this year I also invited mentors and Young Adults to come out as well, and we got a few : ) 

21 people came out to assist in any way that was needed from 7 - 8:30 p.m.  

Here are some of our youth taking all yellow-tagged clothing off the racks for further recycling elsewhere.  

Sam enjoyed pricing new clothing to go up, in that he was given a "sort of" gun to use. : ) Thankfully he didn't accidentally price his finger for $2.99 : )  He is priceless after all.  

Emma and Miranda also priced clothing.  

In the back, several sorted through boxes of material.  

April was given the task of sorting through toys.  Lots and lots of toys : ) 

Ryan and a few others took down lots of boxes to begin pricing them. 

Megan also sorted through items donated and had to decide what stays and what goes.  Power : ) 

It's amazing how many yellow tags there were : ) 

It took this group the whole time to get through all the clothing.  

Oh, and I see Elijah noticed me taking a picture : ) 

Evert and Erik are hard at work as well. 

Jonah discovered many interesting items. 

Nothing too historical though??  

And the removal continues.  

Ryne and Cameron sorted and priced clothing. 

Ryne thoroughly enjoyed describing to us where each piece may have come from : ) 

Wilma made sure the games were complete and priced them for sale.  

Megan eventually got help from Marika and her dad, who was somewhere else as well pulling double duty helping them and throwing out any garbage we accumulated.  

And yes, we accumulated some.  

Sam takes out the fruit of his labour for others to put out on the floor for sale. 

Way to go Sam!! 

Housewares.  We didn't sort them, but It just looked nice : ) 

After 1.5 hours, which went fast, we were done! 

I gathered the group together for a group photo, but these boys wanted their own. 

So they got their own.... ish : ) 

Nice work fellas :) 

And here we all are, minus 2 who I think I missed somehow.  

A great group. 

Thanks to alllll of you who came out. 

The work may have sometimes seemed mundane, but it was all for a good cause to raise funds for the Ottawa Christian Schools. And your 1.5 hours of volunteering translated into 31.5 hours of work that now doesn't need to be done by other regular volunteers.  

Whoot!!!! 

Till next time : )