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1. Create puppets and perform a puppet show for preschoolers or nursing home
2. Interview pastor to discover ways to pray for him and the church — create a Bible
bookmark as a reminder to pray
3. Prayer Drive (instead of Prayer Walking)— leave a note attached with a ribbon tied to the
door of friends children know
4. Clear ice and snow from the sidewalks of neighbors’ houses
5. Donate dolls, board games, ball gloves and sports equipment to local shelter
6. Volunteer to wash tables and collect trash at church dinners
7. Make a large appreciation card and deliver it to local police department or other
community leaders
8. Create “Vacation Backpacks” by collecting used backpacks from school and filling them
with activities kids can do while traveling. Use a check-out system
9. Collect toothbrushes and toothpaste for homeless
10. Adopt a local fire station to tour and pray for firefighters
11. Wash car windows of elderly after church
12. Collect and donate grocery bags for local food distribution
13. Litter pickup day
14. Sing at nursing home
15. Paint fence for a service project
16. Create placemats for nursing home
17. Assemble manila envelopes of drawing paper, coloring book pages and crayons for use
by DHS office or police department.
18. Serve or clean up a community holiday food distribution dinner
19. Rake leaves for neighbors
20. Create a prayer book of community and national leaders
21. Visit someone who is lonely
22. Send a drawing and prayer to a local soldier serving away from home
23. Create a bulletin board display in the church showing soldiers on active duty connected to
members in the church
24. Collect used and new Bibles for a local shelter
25. Collect new toys for holiday charity
26. Ask for chores at home to earn money for annual missions offering
27. Create a class directory — call or email everyone on Saturday to invite to Sunday School
28. Create a nativity scene from craft materials and deliver it to a homebound member or
neighbor
29. Purchase a box fan and deliver it to someone without air conditioning
30. Collect cans to redeem for annual mission offering
31. Clean rural mailboxes — leave a note of prayer
32. Plant flowers for homebound neighbors and friends to enjoy
33. Provide a coffee and cake fellowship after church or before Sunday School for a senior
adult class
34. Ask a senior adult to be your prayer partner for one month
35. Email community leaders — encouragement and thanks
36. Collect pop can tabs for diabetics
37. Become a pen pal for a missionary kid
38. Make invitations for kids in your neighborhood for VBS
39. Create a valentine for nursing home residents and deliver
40. Clean glass storm doors for a service project