Make Your Mark
What is the activity of God in your area? In the list below, you will find ideas and activities that the Lord has used in different locations to make an impact. What is the Lord stirring in your heart? Don't begin an activity because it is a "good idea," but rather see if it is a "God idea" for your time and place.
Have an idea to share? Click on the picture to submit an idea that God has used in your area. It could be the answer that someone else is looking for.
Idea Toolbox
Community Classes
Offer a class to your community on finances, marriage, parenting, addiction recovery, English as a second language, citizenship, art, computers, exercise, nutrition, employment skills, etc. Click on the picture to see a list of links and send us your favorite.
Character Connex AssemblySponsor a high-energy school assembly designed to develop good character traits in elementary age students. Click on the picture or contact us for more information on scheduling an event.
The Seven ProjectA comprehensive outreach strategy targeting Junior High and High School students that includes a school assembly addressing real life and character issues faced by youth today and an evening outreach. Click on the picture to be taken to the NTX Youth Alive 7 Project Page for more information. Also learn more about starting a student led campus club.
Character Mentoring - Project TWhat if you could be welcomed into your local schools to work one-on-one with students as character mentors? Click on the picture to learn more.
Christian MentoringEstablish a mentoring program in your community. Click on the picture to learn more about the difference that can be made in individual lives through mentoring. The Christian Mentoring Institutes's time tested model will equip you with the tools you need for developing a successful program.
After-School ProgramWhere do kids in your community go after-school? What if that place could be your church? KidCare America trains and resources churches to start, fund, and sustain after-school programs in th local community. Click on the picture to go to the KidCare America website.
Adopt a School
Bless a school by helping with needed supplies, sponsoring a teachers' luncheon or snacks, providing tutors, lunch monitors, traffic/car door assistance, and volunteers in other needed areas.
Interdenominational EventGet the churches in your area together to do a project or an event, such as a youth rally, kids outreach, or a blessing booth at your local festival. Much more can be accomplished working together, and it can be a powerful testimony to a community.
Outreach Day
Be a blessing in your community. Pass out water bottles, pump gas, clean car windows, mow grass, paint, clean up a neighborhood or cemetery, host a free garage sale, or find some other way to bless your community. Several ministries call their outreach an "ARK Day" standing for "Acts of Random Kindness." Click on the picture for an extensive list of servant evangelism ideas.
Community Needs SurveyChoose an area of your town and conduct a survey that will give you a better picture of your neighborhood, its people, and the needs represented. Click on the picture to see an example. If you want to increase community participation, then have a drawing for a Wal-mart gift card from the survey participants.
Feed the Local Heroes
Host a meal, or a monthly meal, at your church for the firefighters, police, or veterans in your community. Let them know how much you care. One pastor said the added benefit was the speeding ticket that he avoided.
Prayer BoothSet up a tent or table in your town and offer "Free Prayer and ______" (Cocoa, Dr. Pepper, etc.) Invest "prayerperation," and you may be amazed to see what God will do. Click on the picture to see an example.
Adopt a BusinessAdopt a new business each month. Send a gift basket to a business in your town letting them know that your church is praying for them for that month/week. Include tasty items in the basket, as well as, information about your church and a response card that will allow them to send you prayer requests. Consider placing "Business of the Month/Week" on the church marquee. Click on the picture for an example of what one church is doing.
M&M Prayer
When you see a pack of M&Ms take a moment to say a prayer for your leaders or favorite missionary...May they be sealed in God's protection, their ministry colorful - touching people of all kinds, may it be sweet with the presence of God, almost addictive.
May God melt hardened hearts with the touch of His hand.
