I work at Sugar Creek Bible Camp and for the next three weeks we're hosting an AmeriCorps group. They arrived today and we've had a great time so far welcoming them and getting to know them. They're here as volunteers to help us tend to our trails and to clean out our forests of unwanted plantlife. The entire AmeriCorps team of volunteers get a monthly stipend of some hundreds of dollars.
Just to make sure you heard me, I'm going to clarify: Our volunteer Americorps group gets paid to volunteer with us.
To further clarify, here is the definition of a Volunteer: a person who performs a service willingly and without pay.
To calrify even further: they are getting paid.
On top of that, one of our eight volunteers is just leaving a "job" as a "volunteer" firefighter who got "paid" for his "work."
Apparently, this is becoming a trend.
I am now, and forever more, going to introduce myself as a volunteer no matter what type of job I end up doing. Teacher? No. Volunteer Educator. Garbage man? No. Volunteer Waste Removal Officer. It's all about the titles. How much better will I feel once I convince everyone that I'm a volunteer?
Right now, I'm a volunteer blogger.
We're really excited to have Americorps here. I, in particular, am most excited because my life just transformed from having zero people my age around me all the time to eight people my age...
So if I make volunteer friends... will I have to pay them?
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