- Create a prayer book of community and national leaders.
- Create “Vacation Backpacks” by collecting used backpacks from school and filling them with activities kids can do while traveling. Use a check-out system.
- Plant flowers or deliver paper snowflakes at the nursing home (Residents love to hear kids sing too.).
- Create a bulletin board display in the church showing soldiers on active duty connected to members in the church.
- Prayer Drive (instead of Prayer Walking)– leave a note attached with a ribbon tied to the homes of kids’ friends.
- Clean rural mailboxes – leave a note of prayer.
- Have a litter pick-up day.
- Clean glass storm doors for a service project.
- Serve or clean up a community holiday food distribution dinner.
- Make invitations for kids in your neighborhood for VBS.
- Rake leaves for neighbors.
- Clear ice and snow from the sidewalks of neighbors’ houses.
- Volunteer to wash tables and collect trash at church dinners.
- Become a pen pal for a missionary kid (imb.org).
- Make a large appreciation card and deliver it to local police department or other community leaders.
- Create placemats for nursing home.
- Visit someone who is lonely- pray together.
- Donate dolls, board games, ball gloves and sports equipment to local shelter.
- Wash car windows of elderly and single mothers after church.
- Create a class directory – call, text or email everyone on Saturday to invite to Sunday School.
- Interview pastor to discover ways to pray for him and the church – create a Bible bookmark as a reminder to pray.
- Collect winter coats for distribution.
- Email community leaders – encouragement and thanks.
- Collect cans to redeem for annual mission offering.
- Purchase a box fan and deliver it to someone without air conditioning.
- Paint a fence for a service project.
- Adopt a local fire station to tour and pray for firefighters.
- Create a valentine for nursing home residents and deliver.
- Collect toothbrushes and toothpaste for homeless.
- Create a nativity scene from craft materials and deliver it to a homebound member or neighbor.
- Ask a senior adult to be your prayer partner for one month.
- Send a drawing and prayer to a local soldier serving away from home.
- Provide a coffee and cake fellowship after church or before Sunday School for a senior adult class.
- Ask for chores at home to earn money for annual missions offering.
- Plant flowers for homebound neighbors and friends to enjoy.
- Collect new toys for holiday charity.
- Assemble manila envelopes of drawing paper, coloring book pages & crayons for use by DHS office or police department.
- Collect used and new Bibles for a local shelter.
- Collect and donate grocery bags for local food distribution.
- Create puppets and perform a puppet show for preschoolers or nursing home residents.
- Do yard work for homebound, senior adults or single moms of the church.
- Conduct “Lottie Moon Post Office” by delivering Christmas Cards addressed to church members in their Sunday School classes.
- Help clean-out church flower beds and plant flowers.
- Become a “secret” prayer partner to a senior adult for one month – send or secretly deliver a weekly note of encouragement.
- Send notes of appreciation to your church staff: pastor and other ministers, instrumentalists, secretaries, custodians, etc.
- Create and deliver invitations to church activities to neighbors.
- Conduct a FREE Family Movie Night at church for the neighborhood, complete with FREE popcorn or other snacks.
- Do at least SIX random acts of kindness for various neighbors throughout the year.
- Host a Summer Splash Party at church for the neighborhood kids – play water games.
- Serve as greeters and ushers at church.
- Prayer walk in your neighborhood – leave notes of encouragement at the homes of people you know.
- Make a Christmas Ornament for neighbors and invite them to church Christmas events.
- Host a New Year’s Eve Fellowship for the neighborhood kids – provide games & snacks.
- Create and deliver valentines to the local Baptist Collegiate Ministries for International Students along with a basket of goodies.
- Create and deliver goody bags with notes of encouragement to teachers at the local school.
- Assemble and deliver personal health care bags with notes of encouragement to be given out at local shelters.
- Create and distribute to church members a prayer book of community and national leaders. Send notes of encouragement to one or more of these leaders.
- Participate in National Children’s Ministry Day Activity (Usually the 2nd or 3rd Saturday of February).
- Participate in International Mission Study- Lottie Moon (November/December).
- Participate in North American Mission Study- Annie Armstrong (March/ April).
