Reachout

Reverberate Team Brainstorms Ways to Serve in Cavaillon, Haiti

Tuesday night our Reverberate Team met at the Restore offices to brainstorm ways to create more relationships with our church and orphans in Cavaillon, Haiti.

There were three major topics/priorties the team contended with:

1. Kid City to Kid connections: Specifically, what can Kids City do to build stronger relationships with the Cavaillon Kids.
2. Orphan Care and Sponsorship: what can we do to help people at Restore become even more generous and sponsor more orphans?
3. Congregation to Congregation: What specific steps can we take to create deeper relationships with the people at the Cavaillon church.

The team has come up with some really cool ideas in each of these areas that we will be exploring. I am inspired that so many people would gather together to work-out how we can serve people so far away.

Restore Listens in Liberty

Nate Williams, Campus Pastor of our soon to be launched Liberty site, led his team at the Liberty Fall Festival last weekend. They set-up a booth and handed out candy bars and water and asked people to take a simple survey. Nate really believes that before launching our campus in Liberty, we need to listen to people to determine how we can best serve them. Here's the note Nate sent to all of the people who served at the Restore booth.

Hey Everyone,

I wanted to give you an update from all of the time that we put in this weekend at booth at the Liberty Fall Festival.

Nine days ago I challenged everyone at the Liberty info meeting to join us in listening to our community. You responded to that challenge in a profound way. During the 3 day period of the fall festival we had 35 people who served in the booth. You were challenged to engage people in conversation as you handed out water. You did that so well, that we handed out nearly 1200 bottles of water. But people didn't just take the water and leave. You invited them to stay and share their opinions about Liberty. We received a total of 255 surveys from these people about what is going well and what needs to be improved. Out of all the people that did stop and talk, we had 14 people sign up to receive more information about Restore coming to Liberty. We even had someone visit Restore for the first time on sunday as a direct result of our booth at the Fall Festival.

This was our first concerted effort to engage our community in conversation and listen for the needs of Liberty. Because of you, we were incredibly effective. This event exceeded everyones expectations and was a great success. I just wanted to express my gratitude to all of you who joined us in listening to our community. I will keep you posted as we sort through all of the data that was collected. It will undoubtedly help us focus our efforts in Liberty. Thanks for joining us on the adventure of listening and serving our community.