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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eh, we get SSL hours for our church’s holiday bazaar. [/quote]

How? I thought the organizations had to be approved.[/quote]

DP.  I think the policy says the volunteering can be for a religious institution as long as the activity itself isn’t religious.  So if you help at a church bazaar or a synagogue outing to clean up a river, it’s ok, but if you are helping at Sunday school where the activities are religious, you are out of luck.[/quote]

Helping a teacher in a classroom is helping a teacher in a classroom. How does the nature of the service change based on what the teacher happens to be teaching? If the service student is helping a toddler use scissors to cut out a picture of a lamb, why does it matter whether the lamb is going to pasted into a barnyard or a barn where there happens to be a baby in a manger nearby?[/quote]

I agree with you.  I was just explaining my understanding of the policy. [/quote]

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