Need ideas to get started? We’ve compiled a list of different ways to serve your community.
·      Walk around your neighborhood and pray for your neighbors as you walk past their homes.
·      Do miscellaneous tasks for neighbors who can’t do them themselves, like folks who are ill, elderly, or busy with work or childcare.
·      Rake leaves for an elderly neighbor.
·      Mow the lawn for a single mom.
·      Offer dog-walking services for a neighbor that works the night shift.
·      Foster a shelter animal.
·      Donate blood.
·      Give free music lessons.
·      Coach a youth sports team.
·      Start a little, free library in your neighborhood.
·      Clean up your local park.
·      Help a neighbor or community organization paint a fence or building.
·      Spruce up a run-down playground.
·      Help your neighbors with repairs.
·      Offer to patch up clothes and stuffed toys for a family.
·      Organize books at the library.
·      Host a clothing swap.
·      Host activities for kids in hospitals.
·      Knit scarves or hats for families in shelters.
·      Write letters to seniors in care facilities.
·      Make quilts or blankets for kids in hospitals.
·      Put together first-aid kits for local shelters.
·      Make birthday cards for kids in homeless shelters.
·      Volunteer at your local library.
·      Volunteer to chaperone a field trip.
·      Volunteer with a local nonprofit.
·      Volunteer at an animal shelter.
·      Volunteer at a community center.
·      Volunteer to be a crossing guard.
·      Volunteer at a food pantry.
·      Collect nonperishable food items and drop them off in the food box at the main entrance of Living Word (Brooklyn Park campus).
·      Collect unused makeup to donate to domestic violence shelters.
·      Collect gently used jeans for teens in homeless shelters.
