Friends -
Thank you so much for your prayers this morning. I was encouraged by your presence! I hope that we can commit to spending time in prayer on a regular basis.
We told God this morning that we are open to His prompting, leading and guiding as we seek to move forward in this. And as we surrendered our hearts, we heard several things from God:
> Food
> Simple Relationship Building
> Continuing Engagement of Children
> & Reading and Learning Programs with Children
Just click on "Comments" to post your thoughts. Please sign your name so we will know who is talking. Let's start by simply sharing any ideas for simple things that come to mind over the course of this week. Also, please affirm ideas from others that excite you!
Look forward to hearing from our little "Community" of Ministers!
Peace -
Joe James
People
6 years ago
2 comments:
What about getting those who we are serving involved in the giving. For example, if we decide to cook breakfast once monthly, we could still plan the event, but have our friends that we've already established work with us to cook or serve. This would be a good thing for the kid's self-esteem and give them an avenue to show Christ's love to others. Whatever we decide to do, we need to make sure the honor goes to God (opening and closing with prayer and making sure their personal needs are addressed in those prayers.)
At our prayer meeting on the 12th we discussed several different things.
First we had several things that we need to continue to pray for.
1. guidance
2. volunteers
3. leaders to be raised up from
the apartment complex
4. the ability to meet needs there
5. eventually the ability to
reach other complexes in our
community
Second we discussed putting a booth together for the ministry fair. A few of the things we will need or try to include will be:
1.pictures(kids,apartments,etc.)
2.a tri-fold
3.a needs list(things people from
church could bring to help)
4.sign up sheet for prayer
warriors
5.maybe a time line sheet for past
and future events at the
apartment
Some of the different ideas were:
1.target a specific population or
problem
2.focus on one building at a time
3.host dinners at the apartment
maybe asking residents we have
gotten to know to co-host
4.have a storytelling time
5.have a lending library at the
apartment then trips to the
public library for responsible
book borrowers
6.donation box for books at the
church
7.blanket the complex with prayer
I believe we have several groups interested in doing a joint project for the missions project on Nov.8. I have been very encouraged by the new interest in country garden. My prayer is that God will continue to give us guidance for this ministry and that we will allow God to have the glory for everything that occurs.
Jeff Smith
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