Learning to Serve

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Darryl's Dilemma

Darryl's church is focusing on serving

Topics:	Campaign, Curriculum, Modeling, Service, Shepherding, Study
Filters:	Facilitator, Group Leader, Host, Lead, Teacher
Purpose:	Discipleship
Date Added:	January 30, 2012

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Total Reader Responses: 2 (see below)

Darryl's church just started a church-wide campaign on serving. Each Sunday the pastor is sharing about practical ways people can serve—in their small groups, in their neighborhoods, in the church, and more. The pastor is also sharing inspiring stories of how congregants have been serving in different ways.

To support the campaign small groups are to pause their current studies for five weeks and focus on each week's sermon topic, talking through their questions, experiences, struggles, and triumphs. Darryl has a few questions about how to make this work.

Darryl's group is in the middle of a study on Ephesians from SmallGroups.com, and he wants to know how to pause the study in a way that honors group members and their desire to study Ephesians, but also gets them excited about the next five weeks.
Darryl knows how important modeling is, and he wants practical tips on modeling excitement about serving.
Darryl's group is mostly seekers and new Christians who have not done much serving in the past. He wants to know the best way to help them to start serving.

What advice do you have for Darryl?

Posted: February 07, 2012

arose (Guest)

I recommend serving together as a group. It allows the more mature Christians to model with actions, not just words. You can visit a senior center, volunteer at the local food pantry, read to kids at an after school program (look in low-income areas), feed the homeless and a number of other things as a large group. Our group also spent every other Saturday this summer serving each other by doing some much needed yard cleanup and we look for ongoing opportunities to serve the community (sorting donations at the YWCA is our latest project that we found out about just by talking to one of the gals in our group who volunteers there). Our church also partners with other churches in the area to feed the homeless in a downtown park each once a month after church. The local shelters often don't have meals on Sunday so several hundred are lined up by the time volunteers get there because they know the meals will be there.

Posted: February 01, 2012

Buz nielsen (Guest)

Your church has to have widows or widowers. They need our help emotionally and physically. They may be too proud to ask for it or may have asked in non verbal ways... Knock and serve those who may have served others for so may years before us.