{"id":44098,"date":"2021-05-21T13:59:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T17:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/?p=44098"},"modified":"2021-09-01T14:12:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T18:12:43","slug":"2021-community-service-day-another-step-toward-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/2021\/05\/2021-community-service-day-another-step-toward-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Community Service Day Another Step Toward \u201cNormal\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The return to Community Service Day after a spring 2020 hiatus was another recent return to nearly normal activity in a pandemic-adjusted world for EMHS students on May 21, 2021. The full day of service in the surrounding area for high school students is a long-held tradition that was missed by hosts and students last spring.<\/p>\n<p>A short <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1BH_NK1ImR8nrVgZlpWnGnVAnDUC9azQU\/view?usp=sharing\">devotional video<\/a> by seniors Karla Hostetter and Hailie Mast \u201ckicked off\u201d the event on Thursday afternoon, followed by individual frozen fruit bars and ice cream as students left the building; this replaced the typical shared morning launch in the auditorium and end-of-day ice cream party. A few other COVID adjustments included students driving themselves or being dropped off by parents, and smaller group sizes almost entirely outside. Work sites included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Limpieza de Blacks Run<\/li>\n<li>Iglesia Cat\u00f3lica del Sant\u00edsimo Sacramento<\/li>\n<li>Brethren and Mennonite Heritage Center<\/li>\n<li>Campamento y Centro de Retiros Brethren Woods<\/li>\n<li>Comunidad Menonita Preescolar<\/li>\n<li>Harrisonburg Mennonite Church<\/li>\n<li>Centro de retiros Highland<\/li>\n<li>Guarder\u00eda Lindale<\/li>\n<li>Massanetta Springs<\/li>\n<li>Iglesia Menonita de Park View<\/li>\n<li>Project GROWS in Verona<\/li>\n<li>Virginia Mennonite Missions<\/li>\n<li>Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community<\/li>\n<li>Weavers Mennonite Church<\/li>\n<li>Eastern Mennonite University Special Collections (historical library)<\/li>\n<li>Projects\u00a0 in the school library and classrooms for girls varsity soccer team who needed to leave early for competition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Eighth grade students helped with the elementary annual field day as their service to the school.<\/p>\n<p>Sixth grade enjoyed a visit to the Tide Spring in Linville and a traditional trip to teacher Larry Martin\u2019s cabin for a cook out. Seventh graders explored downtown Harrisonburg on foot.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The return to Community Service Day after a spring 2020 hiatus was another recent return to nearly normal activity in a pandemic-adjusted world for EMHS students on May 21, 2021. The full day of service in the surrounding area for high school students is a long-held tradition that was missed by hosts and students last\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":44223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[323],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-44098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith-formation","tag-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44098"}],"curies":[{"name":"gracias","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}