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  As of right now, I haven't completed any service hours to reflect on because I signed up for a nine-hour golf tournament volunteering shift this Saturday. So, I was going to start my other volunteer hours after that. I received an email previewing what the day will be like, and it seems like I will be volunteering at a bar station and judging or reffing one of the mini golf stations. I haven't gone to the Main Street mini golf event previously, but after doing research, I learned that this is an annual charity event that raises money for the Oshkosh area community pantry and their goal of eliminating food insecurity. This seems like a great idea to raise money for a really good cause of preventing food insecurity, all while being a fun experience for the volunteers. It says on the flier, that if you donate 4 items, you can get one stroke off your team's score, and if you donate 16 items, you can get 4 strokes off of your score. Which I think is a great and funny way to get people to participate. I also read on the Oshkosh community pantry website that they have donated approximately 3,027,352 pounds of food in 2024 which is a crazy amount to think about. It's inspiring to think about how many people's lives that can impact and I can't wait to help be a part of what seems like a giving organization that also incorporates the community so well. This is similar and different to the historical community engagement that we are studying because the monasteries had their own community of charity for people to come in, and Oshkosh food pantry has their own community for people to come in as well. It's also different from each other in the sense that Oshkosh food pantry only provides food while in class we learned about other things being provided as well besides just feeding the hungry. They also provided healing for the sick for example. This also connects to class right now as in a way, Oshkosh food pantry discussed in class/our training that they can exclude certain foods if they don't seem of good quality and always stress keeping the dignity of the people that come in. However, Oshkosh food pantry allows anyone to come in and take food out of a selection of their own choice and don't exclude anyone or require a certain level of money to obtain their resources. This relates to class because of how the hospitals would welcome strangers and the poor just like Oshkosh food pantry does for anyone that comes in with the same morals of charity but also the idea of poor relief. For example, in class we discussed washing, public baths, the big seven charities like feeding the hungry, drinking the thirsty, clothing the naked, burying the dead, etc.

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