At our Sunday service a while back we made a list of things we can do to work toward accomplishing the mission of Christ in our community. Below is that list and a few notes of encouragement about how to go about it.
OUR IDEAS
Interact with the needy through volunteering
- Work at the food bank
- Volunteer at Care Net
- Food drive for the food bank (tell your kids why your buying an extra bag of food!)
- An international student or two
- A stranger in the neighborhood or from the store
- A next door neighbor that you haven’t connected with
Random Acts of Kindness
- An organized day of service (does someone want to plan this?)
- Randomly act kindly on your own! Clean a yard, mow a lawn, bring a meal, buy someone’s lunch!
Celebrate Recovery
- KO Spangler leads groups that help people struggling with addictions and hang-ups to overcome them. Join her in starting a group right here!
- Three or four people are needed to join KO in a group training to make this happen here in Pullman.
Do Good to your enemies
- An extremely difficult step – but worthwhile.
- Find a way to bless someone who curses you or give to someone who would harm you.
Some Cautions and suggestions
Don’t go alone! Every idea we have can and should be accomplished in community with someone else. Jesus always sent his disciples in two’s and threes – it increases our safety, and our joy!
Listen to God. The Holy Spirit will prompt our words and actions as we listen. He has prepared the soil of hearts and minds ahead of time, if we are listening He will direct us into effective mission.
Don’t wait, act! Sometimes we don’t hear the voice of God, but we should act anyway. Don’t let lack of “spiritual direction” paralyze you into inactivity. God’s grace is sufficient when we miss the mark, the point is to try in love!
What are some other ideas? What have you done to move toward making these ideas a reality? How can we creatively reach our culture?
