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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

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