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As you work on your social action project (committed to 12 hours of dedicated time to giving service to others) plus responding in a Wiki format with your group of three, you will answer the following question: In light of your understanding of disciple, what does it mean to be a disciple of Christ to others through your project? You will share your thoughts and observations and actions of setting up to kinds of things you did to what you observed or saw to the final pieces of your project. At the end of your project (Dec. 2 or what you have completed thus far), your group will come up with a group response to what is a disciple based on your social action journey.

Let's start answering this question    tonight.

//What does it mean to you to be a disciple? What is a disciple?//

I am starting to plan a social action project for my classes and with the nature of my course it will be occurring before the Christmas Holidays. Right now the current plan is to have them select a group that they would like to fund raise for and then design, build and raffle off Gingerbread Houses before the holidays. The money raised would go to the group they have selected. This is still a project in the making and may be subject to change depending on the abilities of the students involved. I will keep updating as the project evolves.

Cheers! Anne 

Stephanie Ross and I have put in many hours organizing and carrying out a food drive for our school Notre Dame in conjunction with our local food bank St. Vincent De Paul. I was startled to see how bare the food bank was the majority of the food they had was that which we donated. Yet, the need was very high the volunteers showed me the wall of filing cabinets filled with members who needed food for their families.

In order to carry out our twelve hours of action research we created a student council at our school for this year. We organized the drive, and tallied the food each day, then we organized it so it would not interfer with the janitor. Finally, we created announcements each day and came up with motivational prizes to encourage the children to donate. We also wrote letters to each teacher in the school. We raised over 1000 items! As it turns out it was the highest amount of food that this school has ever raised.

The hardest part of the drive was encouraging others to participate and dealing with the food. It was hard to keep it organized and out of the way in the lobby. It took three full car loads to bring it over to the food bank. The two elderly volunteers then helped us unload our cards. It is funny that I never thought of how hard it would be to carry all the food to the food bank. I also always assumed that everyone had food in Canada. I guess there is a lot that I do not know about.

Toni

Oct 28 2008 To me being a disciple means someone whose actions imitate Christ. A disciple is one who acts justly, follows the commandments, and strives to better society and themselves. In today's world a disciple would have to work hard to ensure that they are morally just because there is many behaviours in this world that they would need to avoid.

Toni

Oct 28 2008 In regards to student council we are currently doing a black and orange day. This is to raise the student spirit in the school. We are hoping that by make halloween a festive time in the school the burdens of being in the educational system will seem lessened. After Halloween we will be meeting to plan out a November coat and sweater drive and a Christmas food drive.

Toni

Nov 10 2008

The Halloween spirit day was a success. In addition to the spirit day the primary division of the school also participated in a room around. The students from each class travelled (via a pre-planned schedule) to each primary teachers room for 20 minutes each. In this time the students were able to participate in a variety of Halloween activities in each room. Activites ranged from a Halloween dance, to crafts, to a scary story and so on... They had a really good time and I think that school spirit was definately raised up!

Toni