How can We Love Others more?
How can We make an Impact on our World?
The class came up with all kinds of wonderful ideas, projects Huge and small... and I kept thinking ...here are 15-20 people... Habitat for Humanity? Homeless Shelter? other equally wonderful goals... but, I'm not going to be able to take my kids and go work on a house, or help out much in a homeless shelter... what can I do? As a matter of fact, everyone there has jobs, kids, obligations but the biggest thing that Struck me..everyone there has their own specific Talents and gifts. Instead of organizing a group of people to do a project where we Could make a difference but probably not a Huge difference... what if we organized the whole Church...instead of 10 little groups made up of whoever happens to be there... what if we found out what Each person can do, what they can give, where they can serve, organize everyone into groups that each member can Specialize in...
a group of the men that can work on a house, a group of the women that can cook or babysit, group of teens willing to help with the kids etc.
What if everyone who had Anything to give, time, resources, money, effort, teaching, reading, singing, baking cookies.... what if we took the list of each group of abilities, organized it into a chart of what this total package of people could accomplish...would certainly be bigger than what the individual classes could do on their own... organized schedules and resources and money and babysitting into a larger project that would honestly make an impact?
We need someone with a business head that could begin to organize the talent base available, resources and funds available, people to help get information distributed and get people involved in committing what they have available to use, make this like any other business...find the needs, hire the people suited for the jobs, outline the plan, make up the schedules and communicate clearly between all groups... then we could get to work on something big enough that it would be Noticed... we could all be showing our love for God, for others and make a tremendous impact.
I don't know that this is any kind of workable idea, but it has always seemed that there are about 20 people doing all the work, because no one else knows what they are supposed to be doing, or they aren't good at pounding nails or cooking at the soup kitchen. What if everyone found their place, found the place where their skills and talents fit in and will actually be Useful?
If everyone in our church wanted to actually get involved and could be given a job that Suited their gifts, everyone working together, doing something they Liked, and giving their best, the projects our church could undertake could be much larger, have more people working, more people giving and loving and making a real difference.
sign up example sheet.... Very basic outline thing
Where Can I Make a Difference?
Name, address, phone 3’s, e-mail
Available times, days and frequency
What can I give?
- Finances
- Food
- Resources
- Time
- Childcare
- Transportation
Special skills/training/abilities?
- Construction
- Business
- Organization
- Leadership
- Communication
- Bookkeeping
- Teaching
- Counseling
- Evangelism
- Hospitality
- Helps
Areas I am willing & able to Serve
- Physical labor
- Childcare
- Teaching
- Cleaning
- Maintenance
- Cooking
- Business skills
- Computer skills
- Paperwork
- Resource acquisition
- Transportation
- Group leadership/ organization
- Business planning
- Fundraising
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