Tag: serving

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Pop Culture isn't all bad

Sometimes in the church world pop culture gets a bad rap...rightfully so many times, but I was browsing CosmoGIRL (yeah I do that from time to time...don't judge me, haha) and saw that they are encouraging teens to volunteer.  They teamed up with dosomething.org to get students some answers on how to get involved. The article titled: "Do something, Like Volunteer" had some decent things to say about why teens should be volunteering.

They gave these tips about why to volunteer:

• The Number 1 reason you should volunteer is because you're passionate about a cause. (I would DEFINITELY agree with this one.)
• It will get you off the couch
• You can pick up some new skills
• It looks good on college applications
• 38% ranked community service fourth in a list of most valued criteria for getting into college. (from a survey done of college admissions counselors)
• Obama plans to enact his plan of giving financial aid in exhange for service hours.
• "you'd be amazed at how happy you can make someone else by giving an hour a day or a few hours a week..."

They gave some "How To" help for volunteering (If your church is looking for partners some of these might help.  I haven't researched any of them but just a thought):

 

• Text "Do something" to 30644 to get local monthly volunteering opportunities
• Act Now! Action ideas using Do Something's action matrix
• Enter your zip code on dosomething.org to find custom opportunities

  Dosomething.org has projects and causes to get involved in.

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Food Drop '09

For some reason it always takes me a couple weeks to really digest the impact of our Annual Food Drop.  After it was over I just went right back into my own little world of "that was awesome but I got a lot to do."   So, I finally got around to looking at some of the photos I took this year and it was evident that our students had a great time which always makes me happy. The Food Drop is a huge help to all the people who we delivered food and personal care items to but the Food Drop is a HUUUGE win for us too because we all get to serve together!!!  At our workshops when people ask us, what's one thing you guys "do well", one of the top three things that's always on the list is serving. Kudos to their parents, our children's ministry ministry, and our unbelievable Life Missions teams because serving isn't something that you adopt over night! Sure we get to see a passionate group of students who have no problem serving but it started well before they got to GSM. I got tons of pics but I couldn't resist posting these faces.