Neighborhood “get acquainted events”
Picnics – Father’s day barbecue, luau
Smaller block parties, particularly in blocks where we have RWCC or Lifesong members.Blue's Brothers Movie night
Bob Samala's band to do an oldies night / karaoke kind of thing, kids fiddling.
ice cream social
4th of July event
Harvest Festival
Christmas Caroling
Live Nativity in the park
Sport activities such as a basketball tournament in a park, soccer, baseball, softball, (perhaps including a hotdog dinner with it).
some kind of talent show in the park? With a barbeque or some such thing?
passing out some free information about planting and growing things in the area, or places to visit on a weekend, etc. Many of these people will be new to the area, so we can help them get oriented.
Service events
Yard/house work volunteers, Specifically for single moms and/or families of deployed service people.
Play days - play dates for parents and kids in the park with but perhaps with supervised activities while the parents are nearby chatting?
Recycling project
Free Car Wash - could go door to door and offer our services - good way to meet people and get a feel for the community - could also do it at one of the members homes and just invite people in.
Back-to-School project: Passing out paper or pencils to homes with school children. Maybe a good way to find out where the children are so we can invite them to children’s events later.
Election Service Project - Such as helping at the poles
We could offer transportation to the VBS at RW.
School Related Events
Teacher Service event: helping them move in, bringing in treats 1st week of school, etc.
Perhaps a luncheon during the preparation week.
Art, drama or music events for Children
Teaching Events
Financial
Marriage Seminars
Child Rearing Seminars
Handy-man training
election debate where we present the issues and both candidates without vitriol. Perhaps a carefully structured debate between a democrat and a republican in our church. The goal would be not to win, but to inform. To serve, not to campaign
Some event which allows us to share truth of the Gospel as well. Show a film which does it, or introduce a topic which allows us to speak to interested parties after the event or something? Ideas?
Church Events:
Pot Luck
Special Music or Drama Program
Christmas Program
"Introduction to Sunday School" program
1 comment:
I left a comment on the last posting which I'm copying over to this one, since you may miss it otherwise.
Carol suggested flyers which are a very good idea. Two thoughts about that:
1) Flyers can be part of any event we do. In fact, I think we should make it a policy to never leave people empty handed. Sometimes it could be gifts, sometimes flyers, but always a plan to have people leave the event with something in their hands.
2)We need to remember the added force behind a good website (which we're going to have.) Rather than flyers which encourage people to call (which is fairly high risk and initiative) we could leave flyers which encourage people to check our website, than we can have a space on our website where people can "sign up", submit their information and ask for help in certain areas. This is much lower risk, and initiative for many people. Of course we can always give them the call us option as well.
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