If you didn’t already know, I am a major, major fan of the people at Healing Place Church.? I had the opportunity to hang with some of their staff and volunteers back in December.? Serving the homeless and then going on the Midnight Outreach was one of the most profound experiences of my life.? It’s been two months and I am still processing it.
When I came back to Cross Point after my trip to Baton Rouge, I couldn’t shut up about how HPC is just oozing the love of Christ in simple acts of service.? Now Ryan, our missions pastor at Cross Point and Jenni, our Executive Director, are going to go experience the DNA of Healing Place.
Something else we’re doing, and that YOU have an opportunity to do, is SERVOLUTION!? Dino wrote a book with the same title, which I highly recommend you order millions of copies of.? But what’s amazing is the week leading up to Easter, they are challenging churches to just get out and serve.
It’s that simple!
From the Servolution website:
7 Days of Servolution is churches from all over the world coming together to express the love of Christ to the people in their communities through simple acts of kindness and generosity. From April 3rd through the 9th we are asking you to partner with us and churches from all over the world and bring that example set by Jesus to the people in your community. As you know this is the week leading up to Easter weekend. We believe that this is a great opportunity to invite people from all over your community to come out and be a part. Many times it’s during those weekends that people are the most receptive to the Gospel message and we want to help do all that we can to fill churches everywhere for people to have an opportunity to experience the love of God through salvation.
Cross Point is doing it.? And you should too.
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9 responses to “Servolution, Baby!”
Way cool!! It’s gonna be a life changer, as much if not more for the people serving as the ones being served.
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Cool!. Thanks Anne :)
we just did something like this. we called in give love away. instead of having church on mlk sunday we sent teams out into our community to serve for two hours and then came back to our campus for a worship gathering….it was BY FAR one of my favorite memories in church ministry…
the spirit of worship on that day was greater than it has been in a long time and we’ve decided as a leadership that it will most definitely become part of our dna.
do it if you can!!! do it on a SUNDAY MORNING. take a sunday off and be the church;) fun fun!
Awesomly cool.
Way Cool. I will bounce this off of our new church plant this Sunday!
That is good. The UK has just had something very positive in a similar vein. Called ‘Hope 2008’ it was a nationwide project to ‘Do more, do it in word and deed, and do it together’. I was privileged enough to be on one of the news crews for this:
http://www.youtube.com/user/HopeNews
A very interesting report features what HRH The Prince of Wales and the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams had to say about it. Worth a watch.
And I would encourage everyone to think about doing these sorts of projects.
This is really great! I want to find a way to challenge my readers to get involved with this… Thanks for sharing Anne!
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