The Big Serve is coming up! Registration is closing in just a few days! Please consider registering and please consider being willing to coordinate a site. The Big Serve is such a joyful event at Grace every year. We gather together and worship and hear from God’s Word and then we make our words into action and we go out to be the church. This event has the chance to have a massive impact on our community. Not just because it might look nicer, but because people can see the love that Jesus put in us for them.
It is special that we would give up part of our Sunday to serve our community. This can impact not just people through our service but through our being willing to give up “our day” for others. Most people who have any knowledge of Christianity know that Sunday is a special day for us. Us being willing to give time, effort, and energy to them on a Sunday can speak something significant.
But what if landscaping or light construction aren’t your thing? There are other ways to serve! We will be doing a diaper drive for a local community pantry and all it takes to serve there is a smile and a willingness to explain to people what we are asking for as they go in and out of Walmart. In fact, our first diaper drive two years ago was so successful that the Heartland Pregnancy Care Center here in Newton still does not need more diapers. That previous drive wasn’t a short-term blessing to them but a long-term one and we are hoping it will be the same for the Porch Pantry as they seek to provide basic needs for new or struggling moms in Newton.
We have seen some long-term relationships come from this yearly service and our reputation as people who love where they live has grown. If you cannot be with us as we serve on April 21 please come worship with us at 9 AM and then pray for us as we go out. That the blessing of that one day will last and that lasting relationships will be born. Praying with us and for us is just as real of a role as swinging a hammer. You can also ask about the projects another person did afterward or encourage someone who you know has skills to serve.
Thanks to all of you who have already registered! We are so excited for those who have stepped up to be Site Coordinators already. This is a great role to serve in. You do not have to know how to do every aspect of the project. We will find you those people. You just have to coordinate communication on the days ahead of the event and on the day of the event.
I am always grateful for our church. We have so many wonderful people so ready to serve Jesus. It is rarer than we might be used to here at Grace for people to be so willing to serve and it is so worth celebrating. I am looking forward to sharing this day with all of you and loving our community like Jesus would!
Register now by clicking this button!
Pastor Will