Serve Your Community with Abandon

This is Mark Clifton's advise to churches that to wish to change their community's perception of them. Below I have posted three articles on the topic of serving your community. I plan to post more articles on this topic in future issues of Anglicans Ablaze.

Discovering a New Focus on Service

For evangelical churches, outreach has always been a priority as they live out the Great Commission. From special Christmas offerings for overseas missions to annual summer missions trips, the outreach or missions pastor role has always been outward-focused.

As I work with churches around the country, I’m seeing a shift from the traditional missions and outreach pastor to a serve pastor, community pastor or mobilization pastor who is focused on intentionally serving their community in a practical way. Read More

129 Great Examples of Community Service Projects

Are you interested in performing community service? Do you want examples of service projects you can do? Community service is a great way to help others and improve your community, and it can also help you gain skills and experience to include on your resume and college applications.

Read on for dozens of community service ideas to help you get started volunteering. Read More

While this article was written for preparatory school students, it is full of great ideas that churches and small groups can also use to serve their communities.

Offer Tea Time Hospitality

Here is one way that seniors can serve shut-ins and other members of their community. Read More

When I posted the link to this article, I thought of the 91 year-old-Japanese woman who lived alone in her apartment and who asked her neighbor to check every morning to see if she was still alive.