Whether you volunteer or get “volunteered”, if you live in Tennessee, you probably find yourself involved in all sorts of activities.  In my case, I’m usually the volunteer and I recruit my friends to do events with me.  At the credit union, all 90 of our employees are encouraged to volunteer in our communities each month.  We grumbled a bit at this at first because we all have families and plenty of outside activities, but once we got started, we realized how much fun this “work” was.

Our most recent volunteer event was the Old Hickory Letter Carrier Food Drive, held on May 12.  A team of 15 credit union employees and their families spent that Saturday gathering the food donated by residents in the 37138 Zip.  We collected nearly 7 tons of food for our local Community Outreach Center in Rayon City!  This should help the Center fill requests for food until nearly 2008.  It’s hard to describe how good this project made all the volunteers feel.  We all plan to help again next year, and we felt good about getting our families invovled…showing our children how good it feels to help others.

I’ll write about some of the things we’re involved in here occasionally.  Post a comment and tell us what you’re doing in your community.