Tag: community service
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6 Great Reasons to Network in Your Community
Networking is when you’re meeting with civic officials, business leaders, community groups, nonprofits, etc. Here are 6 great reasons to go network in your community today. I’m sure I don’t have hard numbers to prove it, but I would argue that there’s a tangible difference in the health of a church plant between planters that […]
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3 Reasons to Coordinate Benevolence with Your Community
Churches don’t stand alone in their communities. Here are 3 great reasons to coordinate benevolence with other groups in your community. Church benevolence programs often take the form of helping with groceries, paying utility bills, providing clothes, etc. Those are the kinds of needs that other groups are probably already addressing in your community. Avoid […]
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Who Should Your Benevolence System Help?
A benevolence system is all about people. But who should it help? At the end of the day, it’s a people process through and through. And there are several categories of people that your benevolence system could help: People from the Community Turns out that this is the least agreed-upon group of people. Not because […]
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How to Create a Church Plant Benevolence System
As you get connected in your community, sooner or later someone will contact you for help with a utility bill or car repair. What are you going to do about church plant benevolence when it comes up? There are lots of scriptural mandates around the concept of benevolence, including Jesus’ parable about the eternal reward […]