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SUMMER SERVE 2014 • Write a note of encouragement to someone going through a difficult time. • Challenge your kids to plan how they would live on a welfare budget for a month (about $400/month for a family of four). • Commit to praying every day for a month for a missionary or organization. • Send a care package to a missionary or US serviceperson - http://www.give2thetroops.org. • Have a job you need done around the house? Let the high school youth group do the dirty work for you, then make a donation to help them go on their missions trip this summer! Go to elmhurstcrc.org/events • Join the Prayer Shawl team. Prayerfully hand-crochet a shawl or scarf that represents the love of God in a tangible way. Contact Ruth Fox at [email protected] or 630-833-5440. • Pack meals at Feed My Starving Children (www.fmsc.org) or Elim Christian Services (www.elimcs.org) • Purchase inexpensive items (examples: goats, chickens, malaria nets, medicines, Bibles) from the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (www.crwrc.org) catalog with your small group for a developing country. • Write a letter to an inmate at Angola Prison. Contact [email protected] for details. • Forego a nice dinner out. Donate what you would have spent to All God’s Children orphanage in Honduras (agcltd.org). • Research a developing country online: pray for that country, prepare a meal from that country, or send a gift to a Christian organization which serves that country. • Prayerfully track the progress of the Water Missions International project in Londalusi, Rote Island in Indonesia (http://elmhurstcrc.org/sllw). This project was funded by our August, 2013 “Walk in a Bucket” event and is expected to eventually provide clean water to over 3000 people. “Christ has no body on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes through which Christ's compassion for the world is to look out; yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good…” ~Teresa of Avila OPPORTUNITIES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE… FROM HOME, YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, COMMUNITY, ELMHURST CRC, THE WORLD HOME THE WORLD 149 West Brush Hill Road | Elmhurst, IL 60126 www.elmhurstcrc.org
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• Write a note of encouragement to someone going through a difficult time. !
• Challenge your kids to plan how they would live on a welfare budget for a month (about $400/month for a family of four).
• Commit to praying every day for a month for a missionary or organization.
• Send a care package to a missionary or US serviceperson -http://www.give2thetroops.org.
• Have a job you need done around the house? Let the high school youth group do the dirty work for you, then make a donation to help them go on their missions trip this summer! Go to elmhurstcrc.org/events
• Join the Prayer Shawl team. Prayerfully hand-crochet a shawl or scarf that represents the love of God in a tangible way. Contact Ruth Fox at [email protected] or 630-833-5440.
• Pack meals at Feed My Starving Children (www.fmsc.org) or Elim Christian Services (www.elimcs.org) !
• Purchase inexpensive items (examples: goats, chickens, malaria nets, medicines, Bibles) from the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (www.crwrc.org) catalog with your small group for a developing country. !
• Write a letter to an inmate at Angola Prison. Contact [email protected] for details. !
• Forego a nice dinner out. Donate what you would have spent to All God’s Children orphanage in Honduras (agcltd.org). !
• Research a developing country online: pray for that country, prepare a meal from that country, or send a gift to a Christian organization which serves that country. !
• Prayerfully track the progress of the Water Missions International project in Londalusi, Rote Island in Indonesia (http://elmhurstcrc.org/sllw). This project was funded by our August, 2013 “Walk in a Bucket” event and is expected to eventually provide clean water to over 3000 people.
“Christ has no body on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes through which Christ's compassion for the world is to look out; yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good…” ~Teresa of Avila
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149 West Brush Hill Road | Elmhurst, IL 60126 !www.elmhurstcrc.org
E L M H U R S T C R C• Volunteer to help in one of ECRC’s eight children’s
ministries, including Little Lambs, Children’s Worship, and the LEAP ministry (for children with special needs). For more information see the church website at elmhurstcrc.org or email [email protected].
• Volunteer to help in the SHE (Sisters Helping Each Other) single moms’ ministry. Provide mentoring, employment leads, clothing, and friendship. Contact [email protected] at 630-600-5070 to assist.
• Join SOS! Servants on Standby are people who want to be aware of the needs of others in our church and if possible provide resources, information, time, talent, and prayer to help meet those needs.
• Bring canned goods, baking items, dry foods, cereal, etc. to ECRC on the third Sunday of any month for the Yorkfield food pantry. Questions? Contact Diane Karpman at 847-636-0200.
YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
• Volunteer at a Habitat for Humanity (homebuilding) project on Thursday, July 31 in Glen Ellyn from 7:30am - 3:30pm. We need 10 committed people ASAP, any skill level is welcome and you must be at least 16 years old. Sign up in the narthex on Sunday, June 8. Contact Don Van Beek ([email protected]) for more details. !
• Interested in helping the homeless? LINK (Love, Interact, Neighbor, Kneel) is a ministry at Elmhurst CRC through which we reach out to the homeless and others in need in the community. Volunteers and donations (specifically furniture and cars) needed. See www.elmhurstcrc.org for more info. !
• Volunteer at Easter Seals Child Development Center (for children 6 months to 6 years old) in Villa Park. Contact Cassandra Salinas at 630.261.6240 or [email protected]. !
• Give your contact information to Josh Becvar ([email protected]) to be a “Minuteman”--available as needs arise at Lampstand Ministries in Chicago.
• Have a heart for the hurting? The Healing Hearts Ministry is a referral ministry to those in need: Addiction, Abuse, Homeless, Divorced, or Pregnant. Contact [email protected] at 630-600-5070 for more information.
C O M M U N I T Y• Do yard work for an elderly neighbor or take a disabled neighbor shopping.!
• Invite a new neighbor (or lonely neighbor or cranky neighbor) for dinner.!
• Do a house project for someone in need. !
• Take your kids and clean up litter in a local park. !
• Do a summer book club on a novel that is set in a developing country or a Christian non-fiction book regarding a justice issue.
• Join the passionate, dynamic, and fun Community Service Team. and make a difference with our community partners. Contact [email protected] or Nina Schroeder ([email protected]) for more information.
• Contact Bob Keizer ([email protected]) to serve at My Brother’s Kitchen in Lawndale the 2nd Saturday morning of any month. !
• Buy lunch for or bring lunch to a homeless person. Eat it with him or her. !
• Go to the New to You resale store link on the ECRC website and arrange a time to volunteer for a day—or more! !
• Run or walk a race for charity !• Go grocery shopping—or buy grocery gift
cards--for the Elmhurst Walk-In Ministry (www.elmhurstwalkinministry.org), our partner in helping the hungry in DuPage. !
• Contact Diane Van Drunen ([email protected]) regarding how you can give support to CareNet Pregnancy Services of DuPage, for women struggling with an unplanned pregnancy.
