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We have found there are three primary reasons many youth stay involved in a church; Relationships (young people go where there relationships are), Serving Others, and having Responsibilities. Hands-on Service Projects can incorporate all three.

In addition to the organizations officially promoted by the NALC (listed below), Gary & Laurie have had great success with the sites listed on the left. Most of our service ministries are "all church" ministries. Long ago we stopped using terms like, "the youth group is doing..." or "the youth of the church are..." Most everything has become intergenerational.

We've used...

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Let's start with NALC Disaster Response.  NALC Disaster Response has resources and capabilities to assist in early response and longer term recovery. They can open the gates to material resources, networking, counseling, training, and volunteers.

They also offer Disaster Response Funds, Disaster Care Kits, and "Stuff the Truck" events. 


Connect with Mary Bates. Contact information to the right.
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Samaritan's Purse. We love Samaritans Purse, but we especially love Operation Christmas Child. It has become an all church event. A High Schooler leads the project, all ages bring in boxes, little kids help sort through items, Middle Schoolers check and wrap boxes, and High Schoolers deliver them to the drop off center. Boxes are placed on the altar and prayed over. It is truly an all church experience.


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The Souper Bowl is another intergenerational winner. For decades on SuperBowl Sunday we have collected dollars for local food pantries. Want to make it more super? Have the youth contact the food pantry for a shopping list. Put kids in groups. Give them a clipboard, calculator and shopping list and set them loose in the grocery store. Drop off the food on the way home and take a brief tour of the food pantry. Have the kids sign the looooong grocery receipt and hang it in a prominent place. Everybody wins and youth will flock to sign up again.


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 Water Missions International is a nonprofit Christian engineering organization providing sustainable safe water and sanitation solutions for people in developing countries and disaster areas.

Imagine walking miles and miles each day just to get a drink of water.  This is a reality for millions of people each day. Involve your church in a water Walk

A “Walk for Water” mimics the walk that those millions of people take each day to collect water.


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The Salvation Army is know for their bell ringing outside of shopping areas at Christmas time. However, they will pick up used items from congregations. For years we have found that a clothing drive is a great service project. Advertise it in May as "clean out your closet" month. Have members bring donated clothing items to the church. Have members of all ages sort through the clothes and schedule a pick up. Everybody wins! FYI, there are many other organizations that will do the same such as Good Will and clothingdonations.org.


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Laurie and Gary have been sponsoring children through Compassion International since the 1980's. Our current sponsored daughter is Laura Evelyn from El Salvador. We give youth in our church the opportunity to donate some  of their own money to help support Uwase. They also get a chance to write her and we read to them the replies. Over the years several families have since started sponsoring children on their own. We ask youth to bring in pictures of their family sponsored child to introduce him or her to the class. It has been a good ministry opportunity.


NALC Service Ministry Partners include...

NALC Disaster Response
NALC Disaster Warehouse
810 Main St.
Caldwell, Ohio 43724
740-509-1132

Mary Bates
NALC Disaster Response

Awakening Lives to World Missions
Rev. William Moberly
10508 Savoy Drive NW
Albuquerque, NM  87114-4595
505-803-5271
[email protected]
www.alwm.org

China Service Ventures
Rev. Paul Martinson
1407 Cleveland Ave N
Saint Paul, MN  55108-1410
651-659-1396
[email protected]
www.chinaserviceventures.org

East European Missions Network
Rev. David Breidenbach
2111 Golf Course Rd SE, Suite C
Rio Rancho, NM  87124-1634
505-990-1639
[email protected]
www.eemn.org

Friends of Madagascar Mission
Rev. David Lerseth
PO Box 46381
Eden Prairie, MN  55344-6381
847-445-8177
[email protected]
www.madagascarmission.org

World Mission Prayer League
Rev. Chuck Lindquist
232 Clifton Ave
Minneapolis, MN  55403-3466
612-871-6843
[email protected]
www.wmpl.org

India Transformed/UEMI
Ms. Gwynne Gonnerman
PO Box 22420
Denver, CO  80222-0420
720-404-1631
www.indiatransformed.org

Lutheran Bible Translators
Dr. Mike Rodewald
PO Box 789
Concordia, MO 64020-0789
800-532-4253
[email protected]
www.lbt.org

SMI Haiti
Ms. Kit Brunson
8327 Haggard Ct
Martinsville, IN  46151
317-496-4622
[email protected]
www.smihaiti.org

Lutheran World Relief
Mr. Daniel V. Speckard
PO Box 17061
Baltimore, MD  21298-9832
800-597-5972
www.lwr.org

Malawi Orphan Care Project
Mr. Kenneth Ekegren
53 Park Ave W
Mansfield, OH  44902
419-512-9710
[email protected]
www.malawiorphancareproject.org
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