Outflow Ideas

Serve Norman

To share Christ's love by volunteering at one of the following community agencies contact them directly through the website or phone number that is provided.

Center for Children and Families - www.ccfinorman.org

Children of Promise-Mentors of Hope - be a big brother or big sister to a child whose parent(s) is in jail - http://promise.ou.edu

Cleveland County Habitat for Humanity - www.ccokhfh.org

Excell Hospice- Run errands, do light yard work, or sit with patients- 631-0521

Food and Shelter for Friends - serve meals to the homeless - 360-4954

Meals on Wheels - deliver lunches to the elderly and homebound.  Can be as little at 1 to 1 1/2 hours per week or month - www.csbi.org/mow/volunteer.htm

CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates)for children - respresent the best interests of abused and neglected children who are wards of the juvenile court. - http://www.clevelandcountycasa.org

 

Serve Around the World

Touch A Life Ministries - Helping abused orphans.  This is the organization started by Pam Cope.  Rusty mentioned it in his sermon on Stewardship in the Social Justice Series. - http://web.mac.com/rwcope/iWeb/TAL/Home.html

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Lifeline of Hope - Helping to feed, clothe and educate orphans all over the world.  You can support an individual child, or help support an orphanage.  Founders Jim and Elma Miller helped Brian, Jenny & Zach Jones to become a family. -http://lifelineofhope.org/lifelineofhope

To H.U.G. a missionary visit the "Missions" section of our website

 

Servant Evangelism

Here are some tips on how you, your family, or your LIFE group can share Christ's love to your neighbors in a practical and meaningful way:

  • Invite your neighbors over for a cookout or host a block party for the neighbors on your street
  • Leave an Alameda "invite card" with your tip at a restaurant
  • Hand out bottles of water at the park
  • Take coffee and donuts (or fruit) in to the office for your coworkers
  • Stock the teachers' lounge at your child's school with "snacks of appreciation"
  • Ask a teacher if any students need school supplies or clothes
  • Pay for the person behind you at the drive-thru
  • Scrape a few windshields this winter
  • Go grocery shopping for a shut-in
  • Take cookies to your local fire or police station.  If you want "turn it up a notch", ask a local firehouse if your LIFE group can cook breakfast for them one Saturday.