Meet Our Interns: Jaymee

Today I will be introducing our last intern, Jaymee Du Plessis, who will be the Community Events Intern. This means that she will be helping organize the Love Wins block parties. Jaymee has attended The Hartford Project every summer since 2012 and has many great memories. One THP dinner, shared at a host family home, stands out for Jaymee:

Jaymee Du Plessis (mid-pyramid, left) // THP 2015 // Can you spot the other 4 interns in this photo?

The host family was extremely welcoming and conversation flowed naturally, so naturally in fact, that we got caught up in discussing life in Hartford and were late back to the general meeting! I had the opportunity to learn more about the day-to-day life in Hartford, and to get to know some of the people that lived there. I came to realize that people in Hartford are just like me, they have the same hopes and dreams as I do, and I developed a deeper love for the city and its people.

She is excited to serve as an intern this year because she will be able to experience even more of THP and Hartford than in prior years.

Being able to serve in the city that I love has always been something I look forward to every year, and as an intern I believe I can take it a step further than I have in past years and really get to spend time in the city helping others. I hope to gain a deeper love and knowledge of the city. Every year I have gone, I have been blessed to meet amazing people, hear stories, and be pushed far outside my comfort zone. I hope that I will be able to serve and bless the people of Hartford through this internship.

Being the Community Events Intern will be perfect for Jaymee! She will be able to impact those around her as she spends the summer preparing for Love Wins in a city that she is so passionate about.

I love getting immersed in the city life, through living in South Church, working at work sites, helping at Love Wins . . . It is incredibly exciting for me to fully engage in serving Hartford for a week.

Jaymee Du Plessis // Cape Cod 2016

Fun Fact // Jaymee is bilingual - she can speak Afrikaans fluently.

​Favorite Verse // Isaiah 40:28-31 // “Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”

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Post written by Jenna Adendorff.