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Building a SERVEdayEVERYday Culture

Take a listen to this interview with Ps. Dino Rizzo and Tori Townley on how to build a #SERVEdayEVERYday culture! You’ll hear about new serve ideas and resources, talk through best practices, and leave feeling equipped and encouraged to see, serve, and love Jesus in humanity — all just in time for SERVE Day 2020!⁣ ⁣

Watch it here

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So much fun today at the Outreach Picnic! I love serving with these amazing leaders. #wegettoserve #outreachleaders #dreamcenter #servedayeveryday (at Oak Mountain Lake) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2soqywnatK/?igshid=1owac8xuhzt8n

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Santa’s elves wrapping hundreds of presents! Incredible! #servedayeveryday #dreamcenter #dreamcenterICT #theAltarChurch #wichita https://www.instagram.com/p/Brgxw-hhWGB/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ohj9ebb6dads

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Our hearts are SO FULL from #SERVEday20! 

Let’s all take some time to pause and thank Jesus for all He has done. Reflect on the stories, remember peoples’ faces, whisper their names in prayer...Scroll through your pics and just sit in awe of His love. 

Psalm 89 says “I’ll never quit telling the story of Your love...” HIS* love is the story today and everyday. Let’s live our lives telling it! 

Don’t forget to share your #SERVEday20 story with us here so we can celebrate all God has done! 

We love you all so much & can’t thank you enough for opening your hearts and lives to serve Gods precious people. It doesn’t stop here! Its a #SERVEdayEVERYday LIFE!

PHOTO CRED @elevatelife.tv 

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Building a #SERVEdayEVERYday Culture Pt. 2

This week, Ps. Dino Rizzo got to sit down with Ps. Jamie Waldron and Kathleen Elie who oversee outreach at Elevation Church and hear about all of the amazing things happening there. From LOVE Week to partnerships, to disaster relief, to the #SERVESmall movement and so much more. Take some time to watch the interview, gain insight, wisdom, and a refreshed vision to keep serving strong! It's an incredible convo - and right on time for #SERVEday20. 

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Read more and download this weeks PDF here. 

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Outreach Quick Guide: Gas Buy Down

Contributed by: Jennifer Carlile, Outreach Director at Turning Point Church in McDonough, GA

The Idea: Choose a local gas station to takeover with kindness - offering to knock off $1/gallon for customers.

Number of Volunteers Needed: 30-50 (Depending on the number of pumps and size of the gas station, ideally you will want 3 people per gas pump and several volunteers to help with traffic flow.)

Budget: Flexible but $1,000-$2,000 is a ballpark recommendation

Basic Instructions:  

Before the Event: (About two months out) Choose a location and call the gas station manager or owner.  Share about your goal and plans and ask permission to use their facility. Be sure to discuss how to best submit payment.

(We are usually asked to submit a check at least two weeks prior to the event.)

Day Of:

1. Set out banners or yard signs advertising a “Gas Buy Down”  (Remember this is a gas “buy down” – so we don’t pay someone’s entire bill, but take $1 off the gallon)

2. Set cones out to block each entrance except for your exit. This helps to control your flow of traffic.

3. Divide volunteers into teams (Recommended: 3 people per gas pump and 5+ helping with traffic flow)

*Our church parking team is essential to this outreach. They help line cars up around the building and guide them through so that we do not cause a traffic block. They are super helpful to have especially at major intersections.

4. The gas pump teams will talk and pray with those receiving gas and offer them a church invite card before they leave. *We make sure that customers pump their own gas – we do not pump it for them.

5. The traffic flow team will space out through the traffic line. While people are stopped, team members will engage in conversation saying something like “We are so excited to see you today” and ask how their day is going.

6. Let the cashier know when you are ready for them to take the dollar off the gallon. Be sure to continue checking back to see where you are on your balance so you don’t go over budget.

Tip: we typically go over our budget by a couple of hundred dollars because we want to honor everyone who waited in line.

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Outreach Quick Guide: Portraits for Senior Citizens

The Idea: Many senior citizens living in nursing homes or assisted living centers rarely have an opportunity to have their picture taken. For some it may have been decades since their portrait were last made. Take some time to pamper them, get them all dressed up, speak words of life over them, make them laugh, and capture a memory they can treasure.

Basic Instructions:

Contact local nursing homes and assisted living centers

Request permission to set up a photo shoot session

Find out how many residents to plan for

Schedule a time to come

Be sure to advertise the photo shoot ahead of time to the residents (they can even invite family to come out for a family portrait)

On the day of the shoot:

Check in with the center staff

Set up a pampering station

Set up backdrop, chair, camera, flashers, etc.

Set up photo printer

Set up any extra elements (such as props, refreshments, fun music, etc.)

Once set up, let residents know you are open for business

Make appointment times if needed

Begin pampering

Start photo session

Make residents laugh, feel beautiful, and know how wonderful they look

Print, cut, and frame photos

Make sure residents leave knowing that they are loved and cherished

Number of Volunteers Needed: 10-20 (While anyone can do this serve, inviting professional photographers, make up artists, hair stylists is a plus)

Supplies Needed:

Camera, backdrop, chair(s)

Printer and photo paper (cutter if needed)

Props (optional)

Frames (optional)

Spruce Station Can Include:

Make Up (powder, lipstick, etc.)

Hair Care (Brushes, bobby pins, combs, gel, etc.)

Manicure Sets

Boutonnieres & Corsages

Neck Ties

Hats/Scarves/etc.

Music (Bluetooth speaker and upbeat playlist)

Refreshments (optional)

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Check out this news interview with Ps Jeff Little, Milestone Church. It’s so amazing to see how serving the people in our community throughout the year can help them find the hope of Jesus through the local church - especially at Easter.

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The World of the Generous - Ps. Chris Hodges 

If you want to get to the very core of what SERVE Day is all about, this message from Ps. Chris Hodges will rock your world. 

Click here to watch now.

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The nature of a church itself is outreach. If a church doesn't see outreach as their purpose, then they're not a church. They're a Bible college. The very fact that you exist - to preach the Gospel to people who are lost - is outreach. What do we exist for, if not to reach people who don't know Christ?"

Ps. Miles McPherson, The Rock Church, San Diego CA

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Ps. Dobie Weasel grew up on a Native American reservation where he experienced, as many First Nations people do, a life of hardship, pain, and addiction. In his teens, he gave his heart to Jesus and immediately began spreading the love of Christ to others. And he has been doing so ever since. Through his ministry "Life Tribe" Ps. Dobie is working to bring hope, healing, and the gift of dreaming back to the lives of the often marginalized and overlooked - yet deeply valuable and extraordinary people of Native America. Ps. Dobie helps us see with new eyes where we maybe couldn't see before, awakening our compassion, and inspiring us to stay close the heart of our Father.

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Check out this more of this week’s serve highlights and get the download here