Try This: 4 Fall Community Connections Ideas

1. Offer orange slices to football players after practice or hot chocolate and coffee to fans at games on cold fall nights. Volunteer to videotape practices or games for coaches, or enlist your own cheerleading section, wearing church T-shirts to support junior varsity or freshmen teams.

2. Send teams of three or four people to rake lawns and gather up leaves free of charge, deliver baked goods and invite residents to church.

3. Rain gutter cleanup. You’ll need some ladders, trash bags and gloves. It’s messy work, but homeowners appreciate it.

4. Consider a harvest event such as a pumpkin patch, carnival, hayride or other activity designed for family fun.

Find more fall outreach ideas »

Check out more “Try This” idea starters »

Outreach Magazine
Outreach Magazinehttp://outreachmagazine.com

Outreach magazine publishes ideas, innovations, resources and stories to help church leaders reach their communities and change the world. Founded in January 2003 by church communications company Outreach Inc., Outreach is an award-winning, bimonthly periodical for church leadership and is available by subscription and on Amazon.com. Find out more at outreachmagazine.com

David Uth: Loving People One at a Time

“The more central the gospel becomes in your ministry, the more you can fly above all of that division because the gospel transcends it.” -Pastor David Uth

Reviving Personal Evangelism

If we are going to see more people saved in North America and more people engaged in personal evangelism, then we desperately need the Holy Spirit to work in all our hearts. Simply put, we need a mighty move of God in our land.

Oak Park Church: Outreach in the City

Rather than solely coming alongside communities following major natural disasters, the church decided to use the ministry’s life-saving—and life-giving—equipment year-round.