{"id":1207,"date":"2018-08-30T20:38:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T01:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/?page_id=1207"},"modified":"2018-08-30T20:38:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T01:38:53","slug":"outreach-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/?page_id=1207","title":{"rendered":"Outreach Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outreach Swap Session notes 8\/2\/18<\/p>\n<p><b>Ideas People\/Churches have carried out<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blankets\/stuffed animals given to police to carry in cars to comfort kids (Vicki Burdick, Riverside, CA)<\/li>\n<li>Buy 1 get 1 free pizza (or similar) \u2013 use 1 pizza for self and give other to homeless shelter; raise money to give more pizzas using coupons (Debbie James, Verona, NY)<\/li>\n<li>Raise awareness for health issues (e.g. kids who have strokes) by donating stuffed animals with tags including information about the issue to hospitals (Kellie Galarneau, Shepherd\u2019s Fold, TN, kstivers15@gmail.com)<\/li>\n<li>Hold community movie nights. $99 for copyright license for movie showing; can rent equipment (Kristin Camenga, German SDB Church, Salemville, PA, kacam@ajcindustries.com)<\/li>\n<li>Community baby shower (Trish Nagle, White Cloud, MI, nananagle@yahoo.com)\n<ul>\n<li>Pregnant moms and moms of kids under 2 invited; advertise on Facebook<\/li>\n<li>Devotion; games\/prizes (winners choose gift)\/drawing for grand prize; food<\/li>\n<li>Shopped clearance to get strollers, high chairs, pack N plays, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Women\u2019s group raised money and were matched by church evangelism and outreach budget<\/li>\n<li>Connected to local child protection to get info, gifts, speaker<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Communicate with people in city\/town offices \u2013 find community liaison, find out about local programs already in place to join in; e.g. mentor program for school students or partnering with a local church that feeds kids lunch in the park every day of the summer (Gretchen Zwiebel, Boulder, CO)<\/li>\n<li>Connect with the elementary school and survey teachers to see what needs are for classroom and include birthday on survey; provide materials and on birthdays, give gifts\/note with prayers (Sarah Shick, White Cloud, MI, sarahjshick@yahoo.com)<\/li>\n<li>Self-care\/Wellness fair for women \u2013 a talk, screenings, massages, coloring (Rebecca Olson, Berlin, NY)<\/li>\n<li>Food pantry (Sharon Gay Dailey, Southeast Atlanta, sharongmdailey@gmail.com)\n<ul>\n<li>Provides a box of groceries once a week following a sermon, music, gospel presentation and invitation to prayer<\/li>\n<li>At Thanksgiving, provide a hot cooked meal<\/li>\n<li>Back-to-school time, provide backpacks with school supplies<\/li>\n<li>Extra people invited for the special events (people invite their friends)<\/li>\n<li>Deliver boxes to those who can\u2019t come or deliver leftover boxes to whomever wants them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Family Fun Fest (Althea Rood, Dodge Center, MN, althear@yahoo.com)\n<ul>\n<li>Held on Sabbath afternoon<\/li>\n<li>Tied to VBS closing on Sabbath morning<\/li>\n<li>Inflatables, hula hoop contest, people available to pray with others<\/li>\n<li>(used to be connected to weekend community celebration)<\/li>\n<li>Time to Revive \u2013 evangelism tool, cooperation with other churches<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Galentine\u2019s day celebration (Elizabeth Lawson, Sarina Villapondo, Colton, CA)\n<ul>\n<li>For women on Valentine\u2019s day<\/li>\n<li>Snacks\/photo booth\/speaker<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sewing days (Ruth Burdick, Seattle Area, WA via Ginny Evans, allabouthistory@gmail.com)\n<ul>\n<li>Invite crafting friends or those who want to learn how to sew<\/li>\n<li>Focus is on building relationships; can lead to invitations to more spiritually focused events such as women\u2019s retreats<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Manna bags \u2013 prepared bags that can be handed out to homeless (has been done in Bay Area SDB, Colton, CA, Seattle Area, WA)\n<ul>\n<li>Toiletries, socks, first aid kids<\/li>\n<li>Nonperishable snacks, tuna<\/li>\n<li>Gospel tract\/ church contact info<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Reaching Internationals (Ron Davis, rcdavis16@sbcglobal.net)\n<ul>\n<li>ESL program with English training<\/li>\n<li>Invite International college students to dinner or to stay during vacations (colleges often have programs to pair with international students)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sell cozies\/other crafts to fund camp scholarships for needy kids (Pat Williams and Gretchen Zwiebel, Boulder, CO, patwilliams1947@gmail.com)<\/li>\n<li>Support community warming shelter for homeless \u2013 for cold or rainy nights (Phil Lawton, Shiloh, NJ)\n<ul>\n<li>Space for people to sleep with meals night and morning<\/li>\n<li>In Bridgeton, NJ, one church to host and another provides meals<\/li>\n<li>Get donations from convenience stores<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>More ideas<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Backpack for kids being rescued from their home (Gabi Osborn, Boulder, CO, gabi.osborn99@gmail.com)\n<ul>\n<li>Blanket, stuffed animal<\/li>\n<li>Backpack important to carry their things \u2013 otherwise might just be given a trash bag<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Provide job preparation \u2013 clothes for interviews, resume help, interview coaching<\/li>\n<li>Work with restaurants to pick up leftovers to donate to homeless shelter\/food pantry<\/li>\n<li>Diaper giveaways (WIC doesn\u2019t give diapers) or diapers to shelters for those escaping domestic violence<\/li>\n<li>Become a licensed foster home; can be especially helpful if church has children\u2019s or youth programs to provide support<\/li>\n<li>Volunteer for community clean up day or other similar programs to be a witness within community events<\/li>\n<li>Encourage small business owners to consider hiring ex-cons or those who struggle to give them a hand up<\/li>\n<li>Support businesses that work to help others \u2013 e.g. those that hire refugees or provide food in exchange for work<\/li>\n<li>Assess the skills in your group and see how they could serve the community\n<ul>\n<li>Carpenters could go around to homes and help with home repair<\/li>\n<li>Crafters could create blankets for babies in the hospital<\/li>\n<li>Young moms could exchange daycare and share about life skills<\/li>\n<li>VoTech schools may have teen parenting programs that you could support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Monthly sharing of women\u2019s skills\/talents such as cake decorating, scrapbooking, etc. (Michaella Osborn, Boulder, CO, michaella.osborn@gmail.com)<\/li>\n<li><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a> Sponsor a refugee family as a church (Michaella Osborn, Boulder, CO, michaella.osborn@gmail.com)<\/li>\n<li>Collect toys or winter clothing from the community to give to kids identified by the school<\/li>\n<li>Pay off bills for students who get behind in paying for school lunches so they can have food; work with school to pack food for the weekend for students who don\u2019t have enough food.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outreach Swap Session notes 8\/2\/18 Ideas People\/Churches have carried out Blankets\/stuffed animals given to police to carry in cars to comfort kids (Vicki Burdick, Riverside, CA) Buy 1 get 1 free pizza (or similar) \u2013 use 1 pizza for self and give other to homeless shelter; raise money to give more pizzas using coupons (Debbie&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/?page_id=1207\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":1202,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1207","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1207\/revisions\/1208"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdbwomen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}