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DePaul Catholic's mission statement is “DePaul Catholic provides a Catholic experience of educational sharing which promotes, protects and nurtures the dignity of each person while fostering a communal commitment of love and service to all of God's people.” This year, Junior year, our service was to help the less fortunate and I did my service at Father English's Community Center distributing food and clothes during the Christmas season. Saint Vincent DePaul is well known because he began to train and organize priests for work to help fund a variety of charitable projects. His legacy is a perfect example of what DePaul Catholic has does with the Christian Service Project given to the students of DePaul Catholic since year one. Every year students are given different charitable projects to “promote, protect and nurture the dignity of each person” is exactly what Saint Vincent DePaul had intended and what is stated in DePaul Catholic's mission statement. This experience was by far the best out of all the Christian Service Projects I have done in my three years of DePaul. I handed out clothes and foods during my service time during the Christmas season and it felt great. It felt like a “cinematic” experience, something that would only happen in drama movies. I saw the smile on people's faces when I handed them the food and clothes and it put a smile on my face as well. The most difficult part of the experience was definitely when I saw a mother and her child, a very young child no older than six years old, came in on a particularly cold and windy day for food and clothes. They left with only a little bit food and clothes because they did not have much money to spend. I felt terrible because I could not assist them myself by giving ... ... middle of paper ... ...atory for Christian Service hours to be done. Instead, I would make it so every student who decides to participate in the Christian Service Program gets immediate extra credit in the form of a homework or quiz grade. Not only that, but only students who do the Christian Service Project can be elevated to an honors or advanced placement version of the class. Along with a pass on homework and tests for the student's religion class. I would also make it so the only thing a student would have to hand in is a completed time long along with his or her final project. If this system were to by incorporated as the new Christian Service Program it would draw in students to voluntarily participate in it which would benefit the student and the school. The school would gain a lot of recognition for having a high amount of students who willingly volunteer to do community service.

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