Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Service Project


You know, we are talking about doing service projects with our 7th grade Sunday School class, while I was talking about this with someone (can't remember who) the comment was said, " it would be nice to have an ongoing project so that there was committment and possibly noticable results, not just to swoop in and do something for a day...."

This idea has had me thinking. Perhaps there is a need for relationship service: at a nursing home, at the Salvation army-somehow, at channel one, boys and girls club, making hospitality bags for homeless and having them in our car(like we talked about this summer), are there people in the community that need help shoveling, decorating, wrapping, shoppping, some place that GIFT could impact regularly. not everyone would have to committ every time but we could rotate dates and families --- i don't know...now i am thinking off the top of my head.....

Just wondering how the discussion went and what was decided. Was there a decision to do a project. were there other ideas?

We have been talking about helping the homeless and making "care bags" to have in our car since the early fall with Tor and Solveig. We have been slow to make them but have given some gift cards to a couple of homeless men.

So Tor earned $10 shoveling the neighbors driveway last week. On Sunday on the way home from church we saw a homeless man on the corner. A few minutes later Tor decided that it would be good to check to see if the man was still there on the way back to the Christmas program and he would give him one of his $5 dollar bills. Yea! So we checked and Tor gave him his $5 and wished him a Merry Christmas!