I belong to a small inner city AOG church and we have homeless meals twice a week, outreach on buses and the streets and financial help for those with heating their homes. Does your church have a special *flavor* in terms of it’s ministry for the community?
We provide a lot of clothing and food for people, and work with the homeless shelters. We also help fund hospices for the dying, and have aided refugees who come to this country destitute and starving. We’ve paid for funerals for people whose families couldn’t afford them, and assist people with paying light bills. We’re giving out free Thanksgiving dinners now. So most of it tends to be geared toward helping the needy, more than anything else.
September 29th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
We provide a lot of clothing and food for people, and work with the homeless shelters. We also help fund hospices for the dying, and have aided refugees who come to this country destitute and starving. We’ve paid for funerals for people whose families couldn’t afford them, and assist people with paying light bills. We’re giving out free Thanksgiving dinners now. So most of it tends to be geared toward helping the needy, more than anything else.
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September 29th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
We do a bunch of random stuff. Whatever we can do to help. We have a lot of fundraisers. Last year we had a childrens choir from Uganda sing at our church and then we all gave an "offering" to help them build a school. We collect food for the pantry and we are having a coat drive right now for the homeless.
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September 29th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
I’m involved with the soup kitchen; and occasionally I help out with the nursing home group.
My church has about five branches smaller groups within the church and each one focuses on specific areas of the community.
One has a motor cycle ministry;
One has a military/veterans ministry;
One has a prison ministry
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September 29th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
my church is very small and has only been around for 5 years (we also have had financial problems) so we aren’t majorly involved in anything right now. We are this year though doing operation Christmas (sponsored by operation care of dallas). This is very exciting for everyone at my church.
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September 29th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
One of our pastors is the chaplain of the Fire Department for the city our church is in and we have a prayer project for the leaders and workers of the city, we have a food bank that’s open on Saturdays, we have jail ministries to a ladies’ and a men’s prison, we have an outreach to a nursing home, we also have an outreach to the neighborhood teens and the teens of our church the second sunday of every month, and an outreach to a men’s halfway house type thing. Those are all the things we do on a regular basis… there are other things here and there though.
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