We began our day with some coffee from a local shop around the corner. It well-prepared us for an exciting hands-on helping day. Our big project today was to help at a thrift shop which supports the Hamilton Welcome Inn, which is a local community center. The center supports the community especially those people with low income. A few weeks ago the thrift shop was taken over by a new manager whose goal it is to get the shop organized better. And so we helped to clean up their workshop where the volunteers sort all their donations. After setting up a nice break corner for the many volunteers who come to the shop to help each week, we got to help sorting cables, hangers, books and .... Christmas donations....
For us as a group it was so nice to accomplish this work together. We definitely could feel, that working together at a project can truly move mountains! And it was beautiful to see how happy the people are who give so much of their precious time to help to build up the local Hamilton community.
For dinner we went again to the different houses of L'Arche Hamilton. We continued building community with the members and had heart warming experiences. In one house we were part of a birthday celebration for a 75 year-old core member, in another house we took part in the knitting session of a core member and another community got to knot bracelets after discovering it on the wrist of one of us. Definitely an enriching evening for all of us!
-Sister Carmen
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