Time to Step Up

An event at Drake University Thursday afternoon  and evening (9/24/15) has the hopes up of about 75 organizations in the greater Des Moines area.  The Young Professionals Connection is sponsoring its annual volunteer fair at the Olmstead Center on campus.  This is an event aimed at helping all parties involved become better and what they do and who they are.

Organizations, such as the Urbandale Optimist Club which I am representing, will gain new members and manpower as they go about the business of providing volunteer services in the community.   There was actually  a waiting list for the event as of a couple of weeks ago.    People who attend have the opportunity to take part in a couple of break out session as well as seek out options for giving back.   There have been innumerable studies and articles that show by giving back to a community through service, the volunteer is enriched and becomes a better person for doing so.

There is something about human nature that makes us want to help.  I have heard from the pulpit and elsewhere this is how we were "wired" up as a species.   We are all here to serve a purpose and to serve others. But it's ok to ask , "what's in it for me?'   It should not, however,  be the overriding factor in making the decision to step up. Volunteering allows us to serve others in so many ways and it is just a matter of finding what "trips your trigger."

There are all kinds of possibility to find that trigger at the event at Drake or at volunteer fairs in any city across the land.  We just need to get out and look for that group that help us live out our passion and in the process make the community we live in just a little better.

And who knows in the Des Moines area, some people might just become an Optimists in Urbandale.  If you are not in the Des Moines area you can learn more from Optimist International.