I am wanting to improve our lame Christian club into something exciting and appealing to our youth at my school. We really want to volunteer and offer youth outings like a regular church youth group. I need some ideas for that, fundraisers, and mission trips. Please and thank you:)
First of all pray
second, I would say to get a sponsor/someone who really knows about ministry work and missions trip to sort of guide and help you along the way. Maybe your church pastor or a youth minister or a community pastor, minister or established group that already does missions.
In the meantime you could always volunteer at shelters, have drives (clothing, food, toy) and donate the collections.
#1 by awsome_funny_monkey on February 1, 2010 - 2:14 am
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first get ideas from others and then a sponsor and go from there.
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#2 by Thomas Jefferson on February 1, 2010 - 2:42 am
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Go to a mosque. Or a jewish temple. and preach your beliefs.
Are you saying that without the Christian label, nobody would volunteer?
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#3 by Christian101 on February 1, 2010 - 3:22 am
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First of all pray
second, I would say to get a sponsor/someone who really knows about ministry work and missions trip to sort of guide and help you along the way. Maybe your church pastor or a youth minister or a community pastor, minister or established group that already does missions.
In the meantime you could always volunteer at shelters, have drives (clothing, food, toy) and donate the collections.
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#4 by Warumono 悪者 on February 1, 2010 - 4:12 am
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Your school has a Christian Club?? Man, I missed out on some stuff when I was in school, well not really.
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#5 by XMIrish on February 1, 2010 - 4:24 am
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Wow an actual question! Well take a trip somewhere like a retreat to some natural wonder and observe the sheer beauty of creation. This might give an opportunity for your group to get more out of it. With fund raising I think your standards (Car wash, sales) would be adequate. And if all else fails charge a fee for going on the trip.
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#6 by Paladin on February 1, 2010 - 4:58 am
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Read the local paper(s) to discover what the needs of your community are, and see if there are any civic groups (Lions, Kiwanis, Sertoma) that already have identified projects your club can help with. Does your area have a serious drug problem? If so, you might organize an anti-drug campaign for the area’s elementary schools. Is your community trying to go green? Try to round up some experts from a nearby university or Keep America Beautiful chapter to come speak at a free public workshop. Do any of your schools grow their own vegetables? If not, help build some school gardens. If they already do, hold a fundraiser to buy some composters and let the kids compost their cafeteria food scraps.
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