Are you wanting to get involved in #CRMissions?
Here are ways you can serve offsite and from your home!
AGAPE RESOURCE AND ASSISTANCE CENTER
- Housing
- Adopt a family – provide encouragement and lift their spirits with an occasional card, email, maybe provide a meal. Provide special birthday or holiday support. Be creative on ways to help these single moms provide happy, encouraging environment for their families!
- Quality Family Time – Moms come home from work tired. They love to spend quality time with their kids, but are often too tired and rushed to figure out what would work. Create a Family Activity Box, fun for the whole family. Here are some ideas
- Puzzles
- Deck of cards – Go Fish, Uno, etc.
- DVD movie and popcorn
- Board games for all ages
- Be creative – create memories!
- Childcare and Development
- Birthday in a box – imagine how it would be if a family could not afford even a cake for their children’s birthday. Create a birthday party in a box: fill a box with a cake mix, icing, paper plates and napkins, a blank birthday card mom can sign.
- Create a fun and memorable celebration for kids age 1-16
- Crafty Kids – put together craft and activity bags to help kids learn creatively and have fun at the same time.
- Education
- Tutor for success – our moms and kids need help with difficult subjects, usually math. Your help getting ready for tests and helping with homework will help them succeed.
- Wheels 4 Success
- Ride Share – when moms work full time, it is hard to get kids to their after-school activities or after school care. Build a team to help moms get kids to where they need to be.
- Apartment Liaison
- Serve as a point of contact for the residents in various high referral apartment complexes in Bed Start service areas. Follow up with apartment manager, referring organization, or forward a need request to another contact or organization.
- Grant Application Writer
- Identify Collin County Homeless Coalition, HUD, etc. grant opportunities, asses which ones are suitable for Bed Start, and apply for those grants
FAMILY PROMISE OF COLLIN COUNTY
- Provide dinner for guest families during rotation. Food can be picked up from you!
- Write notes of encouragement to families in the program, welcoming them to our church
- Pray for families in the program
FOOD DRIVE
- Shop for food
HEAD START
- Shop online/offsite
LITTLE DRESSES
- Sew dresses for little girls in need around the world
LOCAL SCHOOL MINISTRY
- Make birthday cards for the school staff
MEALS ON WHEELS
- Purchase items and decorate harvest boxes – list of items is provided online
OPERACION ABRIGO
- Purchase supplies to take/send to Mexico, send letters of encouragement
PISD SCHOOL-AGED PARENT PROGRAM
- Purchase needed items
- Write notes of encouragement to student parents
PLAIN-O HELPERS
- Serve on the Phone Team
SCHOOL SUPPLY COLLECTION
- Purchase school supplies
SHARING SHOES AND JOY IN PERU
- Write encouraging notes for children and families
- Pray for the ministry and the families
SPRING CREEK VILLAGE
- Pray for the ministry and the families
- Write encouraging notes for families
SUMMER LUNCH PROGRAM
- Assemble weekend food bags at home and deliver them to the church