Service Project

We just finished a service project here. It was really interesting. When I lived in the dorms as a freshman and then an RA, I had the chance to be involved in making the humanitarian aid kits. Today, we unloaded a gigantic truck full of boxes of them (and other stuff, like blankets and food). Humanitarian aid stuff, pretty much the only kind of missionary work that is allowed in the Middle East. You know, laws and traditions against converting to Christianity on pains of death make the whole proselytizing thing kind of hard...the "container" - the term for the truck with all the boxes in it - was unloaded in the village of Habika, which is in the poorest region in the Jordan. It was a neat experience. We had to take out all the boxes, count them carefully, and put them in piles so the various NGO's could take them. At the very end, we opened one of the boxes and gave some humanitarian aid kits to the little Jordanian kids who were helping us. Let me tell you, being on this end of it is completely different. You see how much it matters.