"My Journey Starts Here"
(Moroni 10:32)

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Family Service Project


April 30th
Trek Family Service Project

As a trek family, you choose a service project that you want to do for this activity. Some ideas are listed below, but these are only suggestions. Feel free to be creative!! You are welcome to combine with other families in your ward, but you do not need to.
Remember to take a few minutes at the end of the activity to add the journal glue-in and record your thoughts about the activity into your journals. (Don’t forget pens and glue-sticks)
This activity covers one of the spiritual preparation goals for the Trail of Faith Award.
Encourage your trek children to look at their Duty to God requirement in the Serve Others Section of the Priesthood Duties OR Personal Progress Good Works #6. This service project can help the youth complete those requirements.
Service Project Ideas:
*Bake cookies together and deliver to the fire station or police station
*Make homemade cards.  Drop them off at a rehabilitation center or hospital
*Put together a care package for a missionary or member of the military
 
*Find an area in town that is dirty and littered and clean it up!
*Singing at a nursing home
*Make/deliver blankets or hats to homeless shelter
*Make blankets, quilts, or dolls for Primary Children’s Hospital
*Organize a board game night at your local nursing home
*Decorate placemats for Meals on Wheels
 *Volunteer at an animal shelter- play with the dogs and cats, help to brush them, and clean up after them
*Babysit for children while parents attend the temple
*Collect, make, or recondition toys or games for a nursery
*Clean the meetinghouse
*Perform errands or read to a homebound person or others in need
*Canned food drive
*Book drive for the library
*Help make flour bags for TREK***

*** The stake leaders will be making 4 oz flour bags to represent the daily rations of the pioneers for each trekker to carry. We would willingly accept any help in putting these bags together. This includes measuring flour into plastic bags, cutting fabric into small rectangles, and/or sewing the fabric bags closed.(Any families interested in helping flour bags for your service project, contact Deena Peterson 801-420-5321 or deenapete6@gmail.com to coordinate and get supplies.)