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Spring into Action - Servant Outreach Ideas for Spring!

2010-02-27T08:47:01Z

I found an article with some ideas for Spring evangelism:

http://www.outreach.com/print/articlea.asp?article_name=a-SpringIntoAction

Has your church ever done a Spring Event? Possibly around Easter?

Where have you found a need in your Community?

2009-10-26T08:42:23Z

Our community is in a suburb of a city where the needs are masked. We have found that people are hurting because of the recession in their homes. They are unable to pay their bills or have a full pantry of food. How about you where have you found the needs to be the greatest in your community?
-Bob

My story of service ...

2009-03-12T07:38:29Z

My church has done the Faith in Action model for the past few years. We close our doors for one Sunday and go out into the community to serve. Last year my husband and I signed up to help clean some local trails. What a great way to serve the Lord, fellowship with other members of our church we had never met and be the hands and feet of Christ! A few churches in our area partnered together over one weekend so it was amazing to see thousands of people wearing our service T-shirts across the county. Our community was able to see first hand our Faith in Action and it was a wonderful way to witness!

What’s your story?

Great service Ideas from Element Church

2009-09-23T19:39:58Z

http://elementinsider.com/2009/09/20/sunday-rumination-be-the-church-day-9-20-09/#comment-859
First off, I”M EXHAUSTED! No amount of words can describe what happened today. Adam will hopefully have the full video recap up this week sometime.

The deets: (details)

— Canceled church (inside the walls) today to go have church (outside the walls).

— Over 200 volunteers (not counting kids) at 6 projects today, hopefully making a LASTING impact to people.

— We paid down the price of gas by .50 cents per gallon for four hours today.

— 5864 gallons of gasoline was pumped over four hours by 80 volunteers today.

— Gas buydown volunteers were OFF THE CHAIN!

— Had lots of great conversations and even was able to pray with one gentlemen while he was in line. He asked for prayer for he and his wife. His wife has a brain tumor and will be having surgery on Sept. 28th. He had brought his vehicle through one time and one shared his story with the volunteers at his pump. When he pulled off they huddled and prayed together. Then he came back through and ASKED for prayer. VERY cool

— Doing the buydown on Sunday was really cool. It was a steady stream of cars ALL day long but never got overwhelming. The Saturday buydowns in the past have been chaotic.

— If you haven’t heard about our shoe giveaway, you can read about it HERE.

— The kids (mostly the adult volunteers) organized 2787 pairs of shoes today. You can check out what that looks like below.

Almost 1200 pairs of kids shoes. LOVE that!

— The General and Terri will be taking all the shoes down to New Mexico tomorrow to deliver to the church we are partnering with.

— 30 – 40 volunteers COMPLETELY remodeled a gentleman’s house that was in DESPERATE need of work.

— He didn’t have a bed until today. Got new appliances, furniture, doors, walls, ceiling, roof and one of our volunteers bought him a KICKIN’ new bike.

— Capitol Roofing donated a brand new roof. It was AWESOME! The change in him the past few weeks has been amazing.

— Bunch of volunteers re-did one ladies entire landscaping and gutters. Others helped another lady repair and paint all her trim on the house, foundation and windows.

— Still others did some MAJOR landscaping repair and fix up for a couple that REALLY needed some help. The volunteers and projects were UNBELIEVABLE. Don’t have time to share even HALF the stories that came out of today

— We capped off the evening with a celebration service tonight. Close to 300 Elementers came out to worship God and recap the day. It was a VERY hectic service for the staff but it was an AMAZING time together.

— Alright, my brain is fried! I am absolutely WIPED!

Following Christ,

Jeff

Event at Church Location

2009-05-26T19:03:35Z

While other groups went to do service projects we had a group stay at church. This worked out good because of stragglers that came to church on Sunday and didn’t know we cancelled services. Two different projects were at church. We had a group writing letters to military and then we had a group doing a free car wash and free hot dogs on the BBQ. People couldn’t believe we wouldn’t accept donations for the car wash or for the food. Having it at church was extra good pr as it was right onsite and people knew where we have our normal church service. They related it to the building which was good, even though we were trying to make a statement that its not about the building. But anyway, it was a great day.