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Taking food to the home-bound |
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Taking Holy Communion to the home-bound |
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Visiting people in the hospital |
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Visiting people in prison or a juvenile detention center |
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Visiting people in a nursing home |
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Making gifts or arranging bouquets for patients |
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Caring for young children |
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Tutoring school children |
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Befriending a teenager like a big brother or sister |
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Listening to your neighbor's problems |
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Providing transportation to doctors or shopping |
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Picking up groceries |
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Collecting goods for a food pantry |
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Working in a soup kitchen |
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Providing money to a ministry that houses the homeless |
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Serving in a food or clothing center for the needy |
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Helping in a shelter for battered women |
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Serving as a hospice volunteer for the terminally ill |
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Taking in a foster child |
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Caring for AIDS victims |
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Helping at church retreats or workshops |
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Cooking or baking for functions at church, school, Scouts, etc. |
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Doing yard work or housework for the disabled |
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Opening your home to an unmarried pregnant girl |
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Opening your home to a foreign exchange student or visitor |
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Assisting refugee families attempting to adjust to our country |
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Coaching or assisting in youth sports games |
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Directing or helping at school plays |
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Assisting with Scouting groups |
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Helping provide enrichment programs for single adults |
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Helping engaged couples prepare for a lasting marriage |
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Befriending a newly married couple to teach by example |
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Organizing or helping in a marriage enrichment program |
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Leading a divorced-separated group toward healing and new growth |
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Helping parents solve parenting problems |
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Stuffing envelopes for a non-profit organization's mailings |
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Organizing fund-raisers for the church or other worthy cause |
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Finding major donors for fund-raisers |
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Assisting during the fund-raisers |
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Joining boycotts to influence television programming |
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Joining a door-to-door evangelization team |
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Helping women find alternatives to abortion |
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Helping women recover from the trauma of past abortions |
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Helping people adopt children from foreign countries |
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Helping parents of Religious Education students feel welcomed by the Church |
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Babysitting for parents who attend spiritual enrichment programs |
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Helping the unemployed improve job-search skills |
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Influencing your child's school by serving on the PTA |
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Influencing the local school board by attending meetings |
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Influencing government by writing letters, making phone calls or attending meetings |
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Helping Pro-Life candidates get elected to office |
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Praying regularly for pastors and other clergy |
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Praying regularly for the people and needs of your church |
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Being part of a prayer phone chain |
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Sending get well cards to sick church members |
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Helping to serve Holy Communion during church worship |
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Reading the Scriptures during the worship service |
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Serving as usher or greeter in your church |
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Singing in the church choir |
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Playing a musical instrument during worship or programs |
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Assisting the altar servers |
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Organizing or serving coffee fellowship after worship or meetings |
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Praying on a healing team |
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Helping new parents prepare for their baby's Baptism |
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Helping people grieve and heal from tragic losses |
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Planning or helping at special children's services or retreats |
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Sharing your faith with new candidates for church membership |
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Organizing or helping Vacation Bible School |
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Sharing your faith in a church youth group |
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Sharing your faith as a Religious Education teacher |
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Opening your home to a Bible study or faith-sharing group |
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Answering calls on a telephone hot-line |
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Helping publicize events you would like to see promoted |
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Assisting in the church or town library |
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Influencing which books are purchased for a library |
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Video-recording or photographing special events |
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Creating artwork or crafts for church, nursing homes, etc. |
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Sewing Baptismal garments |
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Sewing clergy garments |
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Funding a needy child through sponsorship programs |
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Helping to fund a missionary or mission organization |
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Organizing collections for victims of natural disasters |
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Cleaning garbage from local natural areas |
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Doing articles or artwork for church or school newsletters |
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Performing clerical duties for a non-profit organization |
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Collecting funds for a child who has huge medical bills |
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Organizing a children's play group to give mothers a break |
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"Adopting" a grandmother or grandfather who has no nearby family |
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Offering your special skills (eg. carpentry, computers, cleaning, plumbing, etc.) to church or other non-profit organization |