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Outreach & Missions
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| Vision Statement Do Missions: Be The Change
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| Mission Statement |
Engage Colonial in missions while significantly impacting a limited number of missionary partners
Our values are God-centered and God-honoring with focus on serving, evangelizing, teaching and bridging. (there is an image of this that would be great to use)
Our objectives are: to engage, inform and inspire Colonial about God's work in our personal lives, church, city and world.
to inspire the next generations of people to engage in world missions.
to infuse the outreach mentality into everything at Colonial
to build upon the legacy of our current ministry partners while moving forward into new frontiers.
Outreach Calendar
| Event | Date |
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| India Mission Trip | February 16-26 2008 |
| Testify to the Light | Saturday, February 2, 2008 |
| Peru Mission Trip | July 12-22,2008 |
Outreach Volunteer Opportunities
Prayerfully consider giving your time to any of the volunteer opportunities below. Look for sign-up information in the Common or call Sherry Parr, Outreach Assistant, at 952-925-2711 for more information.
Calvary Baptist Church – Minneapolis
- Prepare and serve a meal for 80-100 homeless at Calvary Baptist Church yourself or with a group on the second Sunday of the month.
- Tutoring on Monday afternoons
Volunteers Enlisted to Assist People (VEAP)
VEAP is a food shelf that provides assistance for families in need. VEAP offers volunteer opportunities ranging from hot meal delivery to warehouse work. Other volunteer opportunities include transport of donations, office work, coordinating client needs, couriers, building maintenance, or mission fair representatives. Please call Karin Meier at 952-888-9616 for more information.
The People’s Exchange
Serve food, organize clothing, lead Bible study, help clean People’s Exchange, assist driver in picking up donations, donate food or gently used clothing/furniture.
Young life South
Needs adult volunteers to help with the young people.
Total Victory Christian Center
Needs volunteers to work at their thrift store in Bloomington.
Community Emergency Services (CES)
Needs volunteers for the following:
- Painting project
- One time project of sorting food, possibly in connection with their March food drive
- Office project, computer work with a start and end date
- Friday afternoons, volunteers needed to staff the produce line
- Each Tuesday pick up day-old baked goods at Patisserie Margo in Edina (near Hwy 100 and 50th) and deliver to CES at 1900 11th Ave South in Minneapolis
- Volunteers to pray for them
Missionary Service Opportunities
ICM is seeking team members to serve in Africa in regional Ministry Support positions in Kinshasa, Congo; Cairo, Egypt; Johannesburg, SA; Nairobi, Kenya; and Lagos, Nigeria. In addition, there are opportunities to serve in other sites in Africa as well as in our ICM USA office in Bakersfield, California. If you are interested in serving for a period of time from 6 months to 2 years or in career missionary work, contact Dr. Phil Walker at pwalker@icm-intl.org.
ICM Vision Ventures
VisionVentures are short-term mission trips to some of ICM's Africa ministry sites. Churches send organized teams, and other individuals join ICM organized and led teams. If you are interested in joining a team or visiting, contact Deb Snell at dsnell@icm-intl.org or John Cappelen at johnc@icm-intl.org.
Become light - Reach Out Day-By-Day
Let the ideas below inspire you to reflect God’s light into the dark places around you
- Buy coffee for the person behind you in line
- Purchase Target gift cards and share them with those in need
- Make and share meals at various food shelters
- Visit the elderly (regularly)
- Visit your family members; reconnect with estranged family members
- Engage in conversation with strangers
- Read to children
- Tutor young people
- Listen intently
- Be open and respond to requests for help
- Offer to hold a crying baby on an airplane
- Mend broken relationships
- Pray for others...really pray for others
- Mow a neighbor’s lawn when they’re out of town
- Become involved in your community
- Open doors for others
- Do things that “aren’t your job”
- Grocery shop for someone
- Sit with a person who is alone at a restaurant
- Buy someone’s meal anonymously
- Compliment someone’s work or service
- Smile deliberately
- Ask questions
- Go out of your way to help someone
- Take some canned foods to a food shelf
- Buy some diapers and give them to a mother in need
- Leave your change in the vending machine
- Help a young person experience the arts
- Pay for someone’s parking
- Meet the people in your apartment building
- Invite someone to lunch
- Develop a prayer list
- Offer to watch a friend’s children
- Get involved with service projects at Colonial
- Get involved with local missionaries at Colonial
- Go on short-term mission trip
- Financially support Colonial’s local and international missionaries
- Answer a call to go into full time mission work
Think of your own ideas to reach out!
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