Elderly

• Spend time at a random nursing home

• Pick up groceries for elderly

• Visit nursing homes

• Local Missions work: Serve the elderly

• Visit people in old folks home

• Play bingo at nursing home

• Volunteer to help elderly in TC/Roanoke

• Prepare meals for the elderly

• Nursing homes

• Mow Elders lawns

• Help elderly maintain home

Ill

• Prepare meals for the ill

• Make a meal for someone who is ill

Community

• Community food/clothes drive

• Serving Community in need/tornado relief

• Hand out socks for kids house to house

• Have a Bara Ice Cream truck for community

• Fix houses, paint houses in community

• Praying - Drive around community & pray for each household

• Witnessing - Hand out tracks

• Inviting people to church

• Cook outs - Feed the community

• Providing trash truck for large garage items to community

• Volunteer at women’s shelter

• Help promote knowledge of dangers of sex trafficking in our area.

• Work outreach to women in danger on the streets

• Local Missions work: Food Pantry

• Give to food pantry

• Collect blankets for homeless

• Serve at homeless shelter or soup kitchen

• Hand out water to those asking for money on the side of the road

• Go through your closet and collect clothes for the needy

• Donate old clothes & toys

• Donate more to the community

• Give donations to children in need in our community; donate time!

• Feed homeless

Church

• Serve the church - kids/setup/programs

• Connect a families ministry

• Have a bible study for women

• Call someone who has been gone from church awhile

• Mission trips (domestic, international)… Nicaragua…

• Set up the church

• Set up and tear down

• Watch Youth Pastor’s kids during youth

• Help out once a month with BLT set-up

• Serve more for the church

• Elderly church mentoring program

• Young Life

• Work Crew

• Mission trip

• Serve church

Families

• Helping a family in need

• Take a meal to a widowed mother

• Watch a friend’s child

• Reach out to widows and orphans

• Take meals to families that are struggling in any way

• Movie night for families

• Marriage enrichment program

• Make a meal for someone who had a baby

• Make a meal for someone in need

• Baby sit new moms

Neighbors

• Take a little gift to new neighbors

• Build relationships with neighbors

• Mow neighbors lawn

• Serve neighbors in need

• Walk your neighbors dogs

• Know your neighbors

Students

• Tutoring (online or in person) for those struggling

• Send encouragement cards to college students

• Mentor a kid at school

• Spend more time mentoring high school kids on college/ career choices

• Sit with kids without friends

• Sitting with students alone in dining hall

• Be a resource and tutor other students

• Drive people to school

Schools

• Donate books to schools in need

• Volunteer at local school

• Thank teachers

• Help families in need at the schools

• Help with the special ed at school

• Go cheer on your local HS sports teams

• Volunteer at a local school

• Volunteer at Westlake Academy or Byron Nelson

• Help pick up around school

• Help clean up at school/gym

Organizational

• Start an organization that helps students plan their future after high school

• Clean out closets & give clothes to Goodwill

• Local missions work: Habitat for Humanities

• American cancer society. Volunteer.

• Appollo rescue (volunteer)

• Volunteer - play with dogs - clean cages at Appollo Dog rescue

• Volunteer with Special Olympics

Financial

• Giving money

• Financial education counseling

• Donate money that would be spent on superficial items to improve the lives of others

At Home

• Help my parents around the house

• Serve my parents

• Make time for games with family

• Serve family - be supportive

• Watch sports with my husband

• Watch the notebook with my wife

• Kiss your wife every day

• Stay awake, spend as much time as I can with my wife!

• Cook more for my husband. Take more of an interest in his hockey.

Relational

• Send encouraging notes/cards letting others know they matter

• Actually listen and pray for & with the people that mean most to me but also people I feel a heavy heart for

• Help other people shine to showcase their gifts

• Take a friend/family member to lunch

• Ask advice from a friend

• Write thank you & encouragement notes

• Make a meal for someone in need

• Host a play date for kids

• Treat someone to ice-cream

• Write cute notes with compliments for people

• Being nice to annoying people

• Home when someone is hurting, don’t just call. Go to them and pray with them.

Service Men & Women

• Send thank you cards to servicemen & women

• Make a monthly meal for local police/firefighters

• Bake cookies for fire + police departments

• Volunteer in community - support police in TC (blue lights)

• Write letters to soldiers fighting

• Spend time with war veterans

At Work

• Help my co-workers attitudes and be a beacon of light for them all

• Write a weekly note to a co-worker

Miscellaneous

• Hand out gift cards at Walmart

• Offer a word of encouragement to passers by

• Spend time with little kids

• Help girls to see their worth

• Local Missions work: Clean Up’s

• Baskets of “stuff” for people sitting in waiting rooms of hospitals

• Bring tennis balls to a dog park

• Smile at 10 people you don’t know every day

• Pickup 3 pieces of trash every day

• Serve God more in my life

• Share God’s word

• Pray for someone

• Pray for one another/others

• Worship

• Help that lady with all the special need kids that goes to the Roanoke Pharmacy (mason or Kim knows her name)

• Make dinner for someone in the hospital

• Give someone a hug

• Give a stranger a hug

• Holding door

• Pay for someone’s lunch - randomly - a stranger

• Don’t just think about doing it. Do it!

• Find a person in need and simply listen to them

• Smile at everyone you see

• Help more