Giv2 Middlesex Chapter

Giv2 Middlesex Chapter We provide youth from Churches in the towns of Killingworth, Essex, Chester, Deep River, and Haddam an opportunity to serve others in their community.

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Longwood decorated for the holiday
12/05/2023

Longwood decorated for the holiday

On October 10th, Giv2 members got together at the Congregational Church in Killingworth to make sandwiches for St. Vince...
10/23/2015

On October 10th, Giv2 members got together at the Congregational Church in Killingworth to make sandwiches for St. Vincent de Paul's soup kitchen in Middletown.

12/26/2014

Helping kids in Hartford select gifts for their family. Best quote of the night: "Why do you like Christmas?" "You get presents. You see your family. You make people smile" Pretty much sums it up.

Helping kids in Hartford select gifts for their family. Best quote of the night: "Why do you like Christmas?" "You get ...
12/26/2014

Helping kids in Hartford select gifts for their family. Best quote of the night: "Why do you like Christmas?" "You get presents. You see your family. You make people smile" Pretty much sums it up.

12/08/2014

We provide youth from Churches in the towns of Killingworth, Essex, Chester, Deep River, and Haddam an opportunity to serve others in their community.

Bagging food for malnourished children! The hair nets were a bonus!!
12/05/2014

Bagging food for malnourished children! The hair nets were a bonus!!

Minute to Win It games
11/30/2014

Minute to Win It games

Big shout out to Tim Conway of Conway Painting in Killingworth for donating his time to paint the house we scraped. Her...
06/23/2014

Big shout out to Tim Conway of Conway Painting in Killingworth for donating his time to paint the house we scraped. Here's a look at the finished product.

Great group of youth and adults accomplished a lot in one afternoon.
06/03/2014

Great group of youth and adults accomplished a lot in one afternoon.

06/01/2014

Here's the reflection I shared with the group following our work day yesterday. Pictures to follow shortly.

What a garden can teach us By Joel J. Miller

As I trimmed and pruned and cut and dug, I reflected on how gardening helps us better understand certain aspects of ourselves. In one area of the yard, for instance, I discovered a bed completely overgrown. As I pulled out the dead plants, the outline of the bed slowly emerged until at last it was clearly visible. Left unmaintained, however, there was little sight of the previous cultivation.

The relationship to our spiritual lives is obvious. Gardening reminds us that much of life is maintenance. Whether of the soil or the soul, cultivation is not a one-time thing. It’s an ongoing labor, a continual process.

It’s not enough to have worked in one area and then let it slide. All the work will be for nothing. Untended, it’ll be overgrown by the same problems as before. I reflect on my prayer life, my ego, my anger, my difficulty in loving my neighbor. Without constant care, I’m sure to fail. I fail enough as it is already.

After I was done trimming back, pulling down, and raking up, there were a lot of blank and empty spaces in the yard. The clearings brought to mind another thought. Sometimes we have to go to work in our lives and strip them out to make room for new things to grow, to make room for things that are more beneficial, for things that are more beautiful.

As gardeners of our own souls, we are not passive participants in the harvest. If we don’t like the fruit, we can cut down the plant. We are not left with the growth we’ve inherited, with the brush and the tangle native to our natures. By the power the Holy Spirit we can sculpt, we can trim, we can prune, we can make way for beautiful and worthy growth.

A garden is a good teacher. If heeded, our hearts soften as our hands toughen.

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273 Route 81
Killingworth, CT
06419

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