The community that I have chosen to right about is one that I have grown up in. I have had my struggles with it but I have also had moments were there is no other place in the world that I would rather be and that is the religious community. Growing up in a religious community has showed me many things over the years. Over the years I participated in community service through my church like working the church fish fries and helping out with the religious education program. I think that the most influential thing that I have done through the community is going on a retreat to help out at retirement homes. during the course of the trip we helped the people who worked at the home catch up on things that normally they wouldn't have time to do. While we did have to do all the grunt work, I learned important life lessons from the people at the homes like not to let the joy leave your life and the people that we lose here on earth can still live through us. The religious community that I grew up in is one of love. so much so that there are ways for the church to help those who are in need, for most of us we give to the churches that we go to because we are told we are making a difference by giving. Most of us don't bother to see how we are making a difference, in my community back home I got to see how a difference was being made. While I was at home I saw the pregnant teen mothers getting help, the people who couldn't afford rent get a little bit of extra money from the church and food be given to those who couldn't buy it for themselves. This is my community a community that supports each other and that strives for a better world were there is no suffering.