The annual Art and Soul camp at Wesley United Methodist Church in Aurora helps young people give back to the community.
An assembly line of kids and volunteers make over 100 sandwiches Monday night at Wesley United Methodist Church in Aurora during the four-day Art and Soul camp which ends Thursday. The sandwiches were for a community fridge in the city which offers access to food 24 hours a day, seven days a week for those in need. Lucy Jackson, 10, of Aurora has attended a unique camp at her church the last couple of summers and says she looks forward to coming back every year.
The camp began with a free dinner for more than three dozen kids as well as more than a dozen adult volunteers who later turned their attention to making piles of sandwiches that would later be delivered to a community fridge stationed outside Fresh Start City Church at 10 S. Lancaster Ave. in Aurora.
She said the kids in the camp can learn lessons from being a part of the project to make sandwiches for the community fridge. “Many kids are in full-day day camps, so this provides for an evening connection as well as for volunteers to participate,” Scott said. “A lot of parents struggle to find something for kids to do later and we provide a free dinner and something in addition to a full-day camp.”
“We teach kids how to be there for their community as well as spreading kindness and also loving themselves,” she said. “Kids learn more about sharing and doing something for others that they don’t even see, like the sandwiches,” Smith said of the camp. “They know what it’s for, and it’s a very important thing for them. The second part is you don’t always only receive but you also get to give. Even if it’s not money you give of your time and yourself.”
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