So you want to start serving your community but you don't know where to begin? How about setting some goals and committing to reaching them.
Before Restore Community Church launched, our lead team sat down and put some service goals on the calendar. For us 24 service projects BEFORE LAUNCH seemed right. We deliberately varied the size and impact of these events. We experimented. We didn't have 24 events planned before we set this goal--all we knew is that we wanted to be doing 24 things in the community and then we got to work.
We held ourselves accountable to this goal. Each week as our lead team meet we would check in to see how we were doing. We assigned ourselves events and asked our launch team members to join us. We devoted time and resources to these projects. As we counted down to launch we pushed ourselves to make them happen.
Having a goal (in this case a number of out reach activities) gave us something to work towards and embedded this notion in our culture that we were going to be a church that served the community.
So I encourage you--set goals. Put them on the calendar and make them happen. Quit planning to serve and start serving.
