Today, Jon and I met with the principal of Agoura High School, asking how we could be of help to him by serving needs at the school. He was very receptive to the idea, and will get back to us with a list of projects/needs we could help with.
To put this in context, on June 1, we will be encouraging our whole congregation to serve for two hours on a practical hands-on project, with many going to Agoura High School.
(ABF will be one 50+ churches in the Conejo Valley that are participating in this Serve Weekend. Because Agoura High School is in our own backyard, with high-schoolers parking in our lot and on our street every day, it’s a no-brainer. We can all walk over there after church on Sunday June 1, work for a couple of hours, then walk back here and have a lunch together, where we will have a chance to share our experiences and talk about what we learned.)
This June 1 event is already being planned our Elders and staff. We’ll all gather for one worship service at 9am on Sunday, June 1, then leave our youngest children here with early child-care, while our older kids, middle schoolers and high schoolers and adults all head out for a two hour community service project, then come back here for lunch.
Then, after June 1, since our HBF’s typically don’t meet during the summer, we’d like to ask each HBF to pick one project during the summer, from one hour to one day in length, to do together, anytime from June through August. We will all have the whole month of May to brainstorm and plan it. (It can be anything, from visiting a nursing home, to weeding the yard of an elderly person, to serving lunch to a Habitat for Humanity work crew, to picking up trash along a road, to .... well, sky's the limit.)
And throughout the summer, once your group has completed that project, we’ll invite someone from your HBF to give a quick report to the church on what you did. (And for those not currently in a HBF, but would like to participate in a project, we’ll be taking sign-ups on May 4 after the service – so nobody has to be left out.)
So please begin thinking and praying about how God may want your group to put shoe leather to our faith!
- Dale
