How to plan at your church
- Name a point person and gather a team to help plan, promote, and pray!
- Consider some ideas for getting involved.
There are two types of serving your church can do for Love Cedar Valley:
Kindness Outreaches (these are acts of kindness that people can come to the Love Cedar Valley kickoff and sign up for on the spot. Participants will sign up under a certain outreach sign and head out with a leader for the 1 1/2 hour Kindness Explosion with a group of 6-10 people to a given location. This kind of outreach will allow people from different area churches to serve together side by side! Your church can plan to provide outreach leaders and supplies for one or more general walk-up outreaches.) Here are a few examples from 2006: Soda Giveaway- Leaders and sodas were provided by Harvest Vineyard for this walk-up outreach at a bus stop.
Nursing Home Visits- Leaders took groups to various nursing homes to visit residents.
Fresh Carnation Giveaway- Ten location leaders provided by Orchard Hill; two location leaders provided by First United Methodist, carnations provided by Orchard Hill and First United Methodist.
Service projects (these projects are planned by churches and filled with members of their own congregation. Some of these projects will go outside of the 1:00-2:30 p.m. serving time, but all try to be done by the 2:45 p.m. in order to worship together in celebration!) Here are a few examples of service projects done in 2006:
Cedar Valley Church - sending a group that day to House of Hope to finish a playground in the backyard. Also going door to door in their church's vicinity with popcorn, free movie rental, and candy package.
First United Methodist - They made goodie bags for staff and students at Lincoln Elementary, their Partner in Education and neighbor. They also sent a group to the NE IA Food Bank that morning to serve. And there were families who went to the Western Home on the 29th to play board games with residents.
Saint John Lutheran - Moms group made May Day baskets with their children and deliver in the neighborhood of their church.
Orchard Hill Church - Sent two groups to work at Habitat for Humanity. A group also went to the House of Hope to paint a dining room, entryway, and stairway. A group went to Longfellow Elementary to paint and decorate a stage area and the faculty bathroom. A group went to two Longfellow soccer games that day to cheer them on and provide snacks and lawn chairs for the teams and their families
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