How Can I Serve

Program Ideas

There are many ways to serve within our women’s ministry group.

Pray for others in your group

Send a prayer card

Bring snacks

Send birthday or get-well cards

Call to check on those who miss a meeting

Offering to lead a meeting

Helping with set up or clean up

Serving snacks to those who struggle with getting around

Bring food to someone who is going through chemo or just had surgery, or had a death in the family

Invite someone to come with you to Women’s Ministry

 

Activities

Play Pictionary – using the word or phrases about serving. Set up a dry erase board on an easel. Write words or phrases about serving on small index cards. Divide group into two teams. Each team will have a chance to send someone from their group to draw a word or phrase about serving. The rest of the team tries to guess that word or phrase. For more on playing Pictionary see the link below.

https://gameonfamily.com/how-to-play-homemade-pictionary/

Make a craft to share with someone to invite them to Women’s Ministry.

https://modpodgerocksblog.com/handmade-gift-ideas/

https://abeautifulmess.com/diy-mini-pinch-pot-planters/

 

Ways to Serve Word Search

See link below for a word search with hidden words on serving. You could search for the words

yourself to make the answer key or pay the small fee to download the answer sheet.

https://thewordsearch.com/puzzle/528302/search-for-ways-to-serve/

 

Service with a Smile

“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” 2 Timothy 4:7 (NIV)

In our world today there are many wars and conflicts with fighting going on between nations where soldiers and citizens lose their lives. We also see conflicts and fights in our own nation between political parties, community groups, churches and even our families. Everyone wants their side to be recognized as the right side.

Paul shares in 2 Timothy 4:7 that he has fought the Good Fight of Faith. He is not talking about physical fights or verbal fights; he’s talking about spiritual fighting. Your enemy is out to trip you up and get you to fall out of the race. Paul speaks of in Ephesians 6:11-13 about putting on the full Armor of God because we are in this spiritual battle. We need to keep our faith in Christ strong, knowing God’s Word and keeping in the word and prayer, and loving and serving as God leads us.

In the midst of this spiritual fighting, we are called to serve so that God may be praised. Satan does not like it when we serve one another. He wants us to remain self-centered and concerned only about our needs. ^“Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever” (1 Peter 4:10-11).

In what ways can I serve others? What does God want me to do? Mother Teresa said “Faith in action is love, and love in action is service. By transforming that faith into living acts of love, we put ourselves in contact with God Himself, with Jesus our Lord.”

God calls us to serve – this is God’s love in action. We need to be open and aware of opportunities to serve. It may be simple acts of service (sending a card of encouragement, calling to check on someone, cleaning up after a program) or it may involve long-term serving (helping someone through a severe illness; visiting someone in a nursing home weekly.)

Vaughn J. Featherstone said, “My beloved young friends, determine to serve one another. Opportunities for Cristian acts of service do not always come at convenient times. Listen to the spirit when your flesh is weak. “For truly the Master said, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto Me” (Matt. 25:40). The blessings are tenfold when we do those good, kindly acts of Christian service when it is inopportune or not convenient.”

When opportunities to serve come at inconvenient times we may have to go out of our way, or sacrifice something we want to do to help someone else. We do not serve, however, for recognition or just when it is convenient, we do it because it is as if we were doing it for Jesus Himself.

How can you serve? Take a moment to think of ways you can serve in this women’s group? What has God been nudging you to do as we have shared today?

Rick Joyner said, “True Christianity is a life of sacrifice. It requires that in everything we live for the Lord and others, not ourselves.”