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What Can Your Church Do?
Here are several ideas your church could use to reach your community:
- job training
- baby-sitting service for single parents
- friendship evangelism in a public housing development
- refugee resettlement assistance
- adopting a public school with tutoring and after-school care
- Saturday kids clubs
- community organizing to address neighborhood issues
- mentoring children of prisoners
- small business incubator
- housing rehab with Habitat for Humanity
- door-to-door evangelism and home Bible studies
- divorce recovery services
- parish social worker or nurse sponsored by a church coalition
- soup kitchen or food pantry
- financial counseling
- sharing the gospel through the arts
- home services for persons with disabilities
- mentoring and advocacy for women on welfare
- kindness evangelism
- family counseling and parenting seminars
- conflict resolution training and mediation
- car repair service for low-income families
- support groups for addictions or abuse
- summer revival services
- educating and lobbying about environmental issues
- GED, ESL, or literacy tutoring
- shelter or transitional housing for homeless persons
- youth sports league
- fitness and nutrition program
The possibilities are endless.
—Adapted from Connect the Dots Workbook: Assess Your Church and Community Context To Develop a Plan for Holistic Ministry, by Heidi Unruh with Ronald J. Sider and Philip N. Olson (2002).
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