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Re: Ideas on ministry
Before Covid at least our church did a monthly community project. Several hundred folks would show up to do it. Our church has a lower economic scale neighborhood near it and many times the outreach would be to go mow, mulch, weed eat, etc peoples lawns in the area around the church. Other things they have done is vounteered to repaint charities. We also have done things with a homeless ministry near the church.
Apart from that community outreach that varies in what it is we feed around 150 homeless people a hot breakfast in a park every weekend. Also ourch church, working with other churches in our community, provides a couple of nights shelter each week for homeless or endangered women with children. On our Saturday night services in the back area of the church you wll see cots set up all around. These folks are fed and have a place to shower as well.
if your church doesn't have organized community work you could always get the kids involved in serving food at a homeless shelter or something like that.
Another community outreach is one not suitable for kids. On either Friday or Saturday nights a group heads to an area where there are a lot of bars and set up to serve people who have drank too much coffee and hot dogs for free. These volunteers have been thanked but also cursed at. I heard a story about one man who cursed them out and gave them a hard time one weekend coming back the next and apologizing sheepishly for his behavior and insisting on giving them an offering!
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
Last edited by CC1; 01-08-2022 at 12:48 PM.
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