..for the second time. Our congregation did this in the spring of last year, and decided it was such a great experience for both the members and recipients we are celebrating spring and no church again today. I way lying in bed this morning thinking of hundreds and hundreds of people getting up to go out and do good all over the place. It's a really neat idea. Just going out and providing cleaning services, painting, bushwhacking, office help, whatever the need is, and saying: Jesus sent me. (Not literally, but just by doing the things we do to help people who are in need.)
The group I would be associated with went last year to the food bank and packed boxes of staple items that are delivered once a month to surrounding counties to low income families who need the assistance to make ends meet. Canned goods, pasta, rice, other shelf-stable items, plus some dairy and a bit of fresh meat. Other groups went to non-profit offices and helped out: paperwork, cleaning, painting, landscaping. One group decided to go to a trailer park and clean up, then invite the residents for a picnic, play games with the resident's children. I know some are going to a church in a low income area with a lot of homeless people, to prepare breakfast, participate in their morning service, and then serve lunch to the neighborhood. Some went out on the bike trail to pass out bottles of water and energy bars. My friend PC is going to give the man who stands on the corner trying to sell Sunday papers some snacks and a drink.
I am going to work. : (
I don't know if this idea was original with the church staff, or they adapted/borrowed it from some other group -but I love the idea of being the 'feet and hands' The Free Methodists are very mission oriented, both locally and globally. I'm not itching to go and tell the world, but I think the practice of sharing the gospel without saying a word is a remarkable way to let people see what we believe.
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