{"id":25722,"date":"2020-06-17T04:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baonline.cog7engage.net\/?p=25722"},"modified":"2023-08-29T11:28:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T17:28:17","slug":"how-can-our-church-serve-our-community-at-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baonline.cog7engage.net\/how-can-our-church-serve-our-community-at-this-time\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can Our Church Serve Our Community at this Time?"},"content":{"rendered":"
That number is meaningful in my Family. That number keeps growing. It represents the number of days my family has been sheltering in place, selectively going outside, and starting the social distancing of what is the \u201cnew normal\u201d in our country. But, there is another number that I want to talk about today. How can our church serve our community at this time?<\/a><\/p>\n No, it’s not my age, it’s not a birthday, nor a code. This number is the total number, so far, that my local church has delivered care packages of fruits and vegetables to our church families and families from the community. When this pandemic<\/a> hit our region, we had to be creative, we had to be resourceful, and we wanted to continue serving. But how? How can we serve without a handshake, without a hug, without a personal visit, without sitting in the living room sipping some coffee and reading the Bible together? How?<\/p>\n We had to look in our “Christian Toolbox” and see what we needed to use. Is it charity? Is it love? Yes, yes all of the above, but we also had to take out another tool that God gave us: Creativity<\/em>. I love how a pandemic helped us sharpen our creativity and think outside of the norm. How can we deliver a message? Let\u2019s Livestream. How can we show we care? Write and send a letter. How can we pray for them? Park outside their house and pray from a distance. How can we serve? How can we continue HIS work? How can we keep the community among our families?<\/p>\n [bctt tweet=”I love how a pandemic helped us sharpen our creativity and think outside of the norm. – Janna Wiley”]<\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cFor we are God\u2019s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.\u201d Ephesians 2:10 NIV. God had prepared us in advance for this. He knew this was coming, so he prepared creators, people with ideas, people with creative minds, people that love to serve God and His church.<\/p>\n This thought of delivering care packages to families came to us by necessity. Someone brought a prayer request to our prayer group of a mom that tested positive for COVID-19 and she was quarantined in her house with her 3 children. She had no family, no support system, and no way to get food for her children. The school district where the children attend was delivering food at the doorstep every few days.<\/p>\nTwenty-seven<\/h3>\n
Creativity<\/h3>\n
Care Packages<\/h3>\n