Ideas that Work
July 1, 1997
Mobile Car Wash
One week before vacation Bible school, a group from our church, mostly VBS teachers and helpers, went to the homes of unchurched families in the community to wash cars for free. We took a pickup truck filled with rags, buckets, hoses, and Windex. At each house, we explained what we were doing, washed the cars, talked with the people, and handed out invitations to VBS. The day before the Bible school began, a woman from the church returned to each of the homes with a fresh reminder.
Drive-in Movie Night
Near the end of summer vacation, in order to give junior highers the opportunity to meet incoming seventh graders and to introduce their friends to the church in a nonthreatening way, we held a Drive-In Movie Night. The teens were dropped off at the church parking lot near dusk. Each brought a lawn chair and a can of soda. The church provided popcorn. We used a king-size bedsheet for the screen and a portable sound system. Teens enjoyed a fun night of harmless '50s drive-in flicks, now in video, mixed with some Christian music videos. They met one another and the youth pastor. In addition, holding the event in the parking lot made cleaning up the spilled soda and popcorn a breeze!
[Editor's Note: To show videos in this way, your church needs a license for public performance. To obtain one, call the Motion Picture Licensing Corporation at 800-462-8855 or 310-822-8855.] Community Connection
To make our church better known in our community and to demonstrate servanthood, the Crystal Lake Evangelical Free Church spent a week last summer doing public service projects. We contacted the park commissioner, mayor, and school board to see what work needed to be accomplished. We cleaned parks; cleaned and prepared the new ...
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