Small Ways to Serve

You don't have to cross the ocean to be on the mission field, you just have to walk outside. There are so many ways to serve friends and even strangers. Serve through love whether at church or in your community.

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Galatians 5:13

Write encouraging notes

Pay for someone's meal

Volunteer at a food bank

Offer free childcare

Listen to your friends

Teach Sunday School

Help your family

Cook for others

Donate old clothes

Volunteer at church

Donate to a missionary

Share your creativity

Support small businesses

Share your faith and beliefs

Write thank you cards

Donate blood

Give sincere compliments

Lead a Bible study

Send "coffee money" to a friend

Bake for your neighbors

Tutor your favorite subject

Host a free sports camp

Donate old sports equipment

Mentor someone

Send care packages

Send flowers anonymously

Drive someone without a car

Clean someone's house

Pick up litter

Leave a large tip

Volunteer at a hospital

Donate books to teachers/libraries

Host a bake sale for a charity.

Mow someone's lawn

Call someone to catch up

Invite someone to church

Send encouraging texts

Post something positive

Create homeless care packages

Bake for hospital staff, firefighters, police

Host a bingo night at a nursing home

Let someone pass you in line

Hold the door open for someone

Dog/house sit

Volunteer at a run

Volunteer for VBS

Wash someone's car

Visit a shut-in

Host a game night

Help someone move

Take someone out for coffee

Check on your friends

Volunteer at an animal shelter

Celebrate your friends and family

Write cards to nursing home residents

Buy groceries for a family in need

Smile, it's contagious

Sit with someone new at church/school

Pray for others

Love unconditionally