Helping at Nur-Allah

Today, Anna P., Lauren B., and I went to do our first official service day at the Nur-Allah Mosque. On Sunday’s, we will be helping out with the Sunday school program. The Sunday school program has about ten children enrolled and on Sunday’s the children will learn about Islam, they will pray, and they will also learn different languages and a range of different subjects. But, today we were helping clean at Nur-Allah and were introduced to what we were doing. After helping out for a while, we sat down and talked to two of the sister’s of Nur-Allah that run the program. We first talked about the details of what we will be doing, and then we just started talking about the children that will be attending. Sister Carol and Caroline began talking about how Nur-Allah is a space for the children to learn about their religion and feel safe doing so. They told a story about the day after Trump is elected, some of the children came home crying because they thought they were going to arrested for their faith, and that is why they are so passionate about helping the children grow and feel confident in their faith. I am very excited to continue to do service and Nur-Allah and to meet and teach the children.