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INFUSING COMMUNITY
SERVICE INTO OUR
SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT

Building spiritual leaders with a heart for community and

service

1
Membership
Orientation

PROJECTS

2
Spiritual
Maturity Class
PROJECTS

3
Ministry Class

PROJECTS

4
Missions
Class

Community
Service

PROJECTS

The outward display of our inward spiritual maturity can be measured by

how much impact we have in our community

Start of class, members are asked to select a community focused service out
of an approved list of community service projects.
The community service will have to be delivered by the end of their class in
order for them to progress to the next class.
Evidence of the community service performed can be captured by the
media department or individual class cameras.
These testimonials of service executed by the various classes can be used in
promoting and encouraging others to sign up for the classes.
One HSDC offering has the potential of delivering 4 community service
projects.

Community Service Ideas

Ideas can be broken into four groups/categories :

General Ideas

Neighborhood
Enhancement

Helping the
Children, Family
Orphans,
& Friends
Hungry and/or
Homeless

Some sample ideas can be found in the next four slides

General Ideas
1. Practice random acts of kindness
2. Pick a Saturday morning to provide bottle water for joggers on the Lekki/Ikoyi bridge
3. Clean an overhead pass (pedestrian bridge)
4. Adopt a classroom
5. Free car wash

Neighborhood Enhancement
1. Help neighbours paint and repair their homes.
2. Arrange for the local health department to conduct neighbourhood health checks.
3. Volunteer to teach a class.
4. Work with the local health department and a school to set up an immunization day or
clinic to immunize children against childhood diseases.
5. Volunteer to clean up a couple of streets, including the roads and gutters in your
community.

Helping the Orphans, Hungry and /or

Homeless
1.
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Visit an orphanage
Help cook and/or serve a meal at homeless shelter.
During National Nutrition month in March, organize a nutrition awareness campaign.
Organize a food scavenger hunt to collect food for the needy.
Alter and repair clothes for the needy, elderly and homeless.
Gather clothing from your neighbour and donate it to a local shelter.
Make "I Care" kits with combs, toothbrushes, shampoo, etc. for homeless people.
Bake bread on National Bread Day in November and deliver to the hungry, homeless or just your
Children, Family
neighbours.
& Friends
9. Donate art supplies to kids in a homeless shelter.
10.Make a care package with blankets, socks, T-shirts, etc. for the homeless.
11.Start a food drive at your school , workplace or business.
12.Prepare a home-cooked meal for homeless people around your area.
13.Raid your closet to find toys and clothes to donate to the less privileged
14.Help raise money for a charity
15.Set up a Saturday Reading Hour where you visit an orphanage once a month, bringing books to share
and leave behind.
16.Become a Big Buddy for one or more of the children at an orphanage.

Children, Family & Friends

1. Surprise your parent(s) or neighbours and offer to babysit a sibling, relative or friend.
2. Read a book to a younger kid a blind person or an older neighbour.
3. Cheer up a sick friend with a visit or phone call.
4. Celebrate a birthday by asking friends to donate items for causes instead of gifts.
5. Make get well cards for people in hospitals
6. Conduct a clothing repair or sewing workshop for needy people.
7. Assemble a new parent's kit for the arrival of a new born.
8. Collect old magazines and donate them to day care centres.
9. Collect unused make-up, perfume and other cosmetics for a centre for abused women.