The Plan:
a. Who did we serve? (Our target population)
We aimed to serve families, specifically children, who will be in the hospital over the Christmas holidays.
b. How did we serve them?
(Was there a style of service or specific act of service that most effectively ministered to our target population?)
We served them by using our creativity in making fun cards with notes that will hopefully encourage them to have a wonderful Christmas and New Years. We want them to know that owe love and care for them. We are still going to pray over and give them the children, but we have to wait for an ok. It would be wonderful to do that really soon so they don't loose the holiday spirit.
What level of evangelism is this on the E-scale of evangelism?
This probably was an E-1 Evangelism being that it was outside of our church but still in our home area.
c. Where did you serve them? Was there a location or a specific event where our target population gathers that is more effective for us in serving them there than any other location?
We made cards and did much planning at church. Since we are still waiting to hear back from Gettysburg and Hanover hospital, we plan to deliver the cards as soon as possible and hopefully some candy while being able to share God's love to them. We really believe this will bring hope to them though they might not see it yet.
d. When did you serve them? Was there a particular day and/or time that was better than others?
Monday, is when we made the cards. We weren't able to deliver the cards yet but plan to do it next week before Christmas break.
500-700 word report on the outreach as well as a critique of our planning and execution that will include 3 things that were planned or executed well and three things that could be improved.
My Report:
So, the girls and I have had a tough time in figuring out what to do with our Community Outreach. We thought of doing an outreach event in Biglerville or surrounding areas. None of those plans worked. We then thought about doing it at the church but didn't think that would really work. We wanted to go out from the church, not exactly in it.
Eventually, Bonnie came up with making cards for kids in the hospital. We have been working on a date to take them in. We have Christmas, New Years holiday cards made up for little kids. One afternoon, Kimmy, Kriston, Bonnie and I sat down and made the cards. We did about 5 cards each, that's how many I've done. I'm also trying think up and research where we can drop the cards off at. My part in this was making the cards and having an idea of writing encouragement and inspirational verses or quotes. We aren't sure if we can do that yet, however it's a wonderful idea. Kriston brought markers, crayons, and colored pencils. I believe Kimmy may have called the hospital or brought things but not sure. We all made at least 5 cards and planned on taking them in together.
What I've learned from this assignment, is that we do want to reach our church with hope and faith and love. One of the most important things is going out into the community reaching those who may have never heard the gospel, may have given up hope in church, God, or even themselves. Where these cards go, it will make a young kid happy and hopefully they can have a wonderful holiday season as well as a blessed New Year. Hopefully they can pray and thank God for all they do have. If not, at least that they can be happy through the holidays, because we know also how hard holidays can be.
Three things that were executed well:
1. I think the overall idea was great! I loved being able to get creative and work with my best friends on reaching out to families before break. I enjoy making cards, and hopefully being able to get them and their families to come to church.
2. The actual cards were a great idea. In that we were able to create our own ideas in how to make the cards and see the cards in a powerful way to reach little kids.
3. The last thing is probably just the quality time spent with my 2nd year/staff girls. I love our whole GMC team but I feel it's nice when we sometimes split and have small group time. It's truly a blessing to me that I was able to make cards, to reach out to kids, families, with my best friends in the world. This is the way we share the Gospel of Jesus.
Three Things that could be improved:
1. Probably better communication with places we wanted to reach out to. We should have called a lot sooner as well as continue to try and get a hold of them.
2. I know I was sort of unclear in what each of our jobs were. We all did something but we could have planned better.
3. Last thing is timing. I think with us up in the air about one outreach and changing to the next, it didn't help my brain personally. I already had much to think about, without this. Next time hopefully we can start planning and grasping what we want to do within the first week we get the assignment. That is where the brainstorming power comes in!
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