How Can I Be Involved Personally?
Consider what next steps you can take with the desire to apply Micah 6:8 in order "to act justly, love mercy and walk humbly with our God..."
Check out the following: These can be done by youth groups, individual students or families and can include adults.
- MAP Teams (Momentum Applied) week-long or weekend opportunities throughout the year to do ministry. Here are 8, tentatively-planned MAP Team options open to students, adults, and youth groups.
- Cambodia Momentum Orphanage (in the spring of 2009)
- Thailand Momentum Orphanage (in the spring of 2009)
- Pearlington, MS - continue to help what Momentum 2007 started...in rebuilding this community after Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. This small community of 800 residents still needs our help!
- Haiti/Nicaragua or a Third World Country - deliver food to a third-world country that was packed here in the U.S. through the ministry of Feed My Starving Children.
- New Mexico - work with Native Americans on an Indian reservation
- Appalachia - serving people in rural America. Work with people connected with The Happy Church
- San Francisco - serve/minister to the homeless and gay community
- Urban Hope/Philadelphia: CE National's inner-city ministry in Philadelphia, Pa. info@urabanhope.net. Here is a sampling of some of the Fall opportunities at Urban Hope:
- September 12-14, 2008: Cambodian Weekend
Through this weekend we will be ministering in a park in South Philadelphia where there is a large Cambodian and Southeast Asian population. - October 17-19, 2008: Homeless Ministry Weekend
This weekend we will be working with homeless men and women in the city of Philadelphia through providing food, clothing, conversations, and prayer. - November 14-16, 2008: Fire Prevention Weekend
This weekend we will reach out to families in our community through installing smoke detectors and replacing batteries in their homes - "Run Across America": a challenge given at conference by a student, Tim Serafino, to run across America and give to the needs of the poor. Contact Tim at timserafino@sbcglobal.net
- Consider going on Operation Barnabas International. a limited number of OB Alumn will have the opportunity to serve on an international team next summer. Tentative plans are for the team to go to a country in Africa.
If interested in any of the following MAP Teams, contact CE National:
These teams are organized by local churches/individuals, and they will establish the criteria, costs and details for your ministry. Contact CE National to be put in contact with the leader of the MAP teams.