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.
