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Ways to Serve Your Brother
by Christy Wardle
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Plant or weed a garden
Prepare a meal for someone in need
Write a letter of appreciation
Print out a scripture a day, and leave it for someone. Try to find
scriptures that address something they might be struggling with, and give
comfort.
Pick a person you don't know very well at school and every time you see
them, smile and say hello for at least week.
Be a secret friend for someone you don't normally do things with. Find out
about their likes and dislikes, hobbies, talents, etc. and plan
accordingly.
Make beanbags for a local children's hospital or women's shelter
Read to younger children as part of a Library story time, for a teacher,
at a local Boys and Girl's Club/YMCA or daycare.
Volunteer to help out with a Primary sharing time or activity
Everybody loves getting cookies ;o)
Visit a senior center and "adopt" a grandparent. Visit them at
least once a week.
Make inspiration packs for the missionaries from your ward and send them
out. Include stories, poems, art (or cartoons), anything that will help
inspire them, and help them teach.
Collect magazines and books to donate to a senior center or
hospital.
Wash windows or windshields
Make copies of your family recipes, and give them to friends and family
members
Visit the Family History Center nearest you and prepare 3 names for
baptism
Make blankets for your local children's hospital or NICU
Learn how to knit or crochet, and make potholders or dish cloths for the
local homeless shelter (to use in the soup kitchen)
Have a winter clothing drive and donate the clothes to your local homeless
shelter
Pick up litter in the park
Tutor an elementary student in math, reading or another subject you are
proficent at
Go tracting with the missionaries
Make a "rainy day" or "Sacrament Quiet Time" kit for a
busy mom to use with her children. Include coloring pages *printed from
the web*, games, puzzles, etc.
Vacuum someone's living or family room
Rake up leaves
Collect cans of food for your local food bank
Help to clean the church building every week for a month
Volunteer to say the opening or closing prayer in one of your church
meetings for a month (this includes activities).
Help to sort clothes at a thrift store like the Salvation Army, Deseret
Industries or Goodwill
Wash dishes at home every night for a month. Or, volunteer to wash dishes
at the next ward activity.
Take an elderly person's dog for regular walks
Volunteer at the animal shelter
Hug at least three people a day
Let someone go in front of you at the checkout line or in traffic
Volunteer to babysit so a mother can go grocery or Holiday shopping
Make and freeze single servings of different sauces, etc. and take the
frozen meals to a widow or widower to eat when they need them. Write the
cooking instructions on the bags, or tape them to the bags.
Help to take Enrichment Night fliers, Newsletters, etc. to the homes of
ward members
Write weekly letters to missionaries from your ward
Ask the missionaries if you can help them mark Books of Mormon
Write down your testimony and make copies for the mission office to put in
Books of Mormon to be handed out.
Mow lawns
Make teddy bears for the local police or fire department to give to kids
they rescue (FREE PATTERN)
Help a child in primary memorize the Articles of Faith
Mend clothes and replace buttons
Teach someone to read
Help someone to paint a fence or house
Go through your jewelery, shoes and clothes. Take what you don't wear
anymore to a women's shelter.
Interview an older relative and tape your conversation. Afterwards, type
up the history, and send copies to your family.
Read a book a day to a child for a month |
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More Ideas
1. We are packing/sending care packages to members overseas who are
in the military. We are sending snacks, games, etc. One sister said
her husband was amazed at how excited they were to receive a bag of
clothespins!
2. Another sister in our branch told us that in her husband's unit
there are a lot of single men who have NO ONE writing or sending them
packages---not even their own mothers! For the next FHE, we are
asking every member to write a letter to a soldier. We will give
them to that sister who will mail them to her husband and he will
give them out. Think of what it would be like if no one contacted
you for 3-6 months.
3. We are collecting non-perishable food items to take to 2 group
homes for the intellectually disabled in our county. Many don't
budget well and this will help out quite a bit.
4. This service project we won't begin until mid-to late-April. We
are going to pack care packages for the nonmembers in our 2 sisters'
husband's units. We hope to ask each family to pack/ mail them to
the soldiers directly. This is if we can get name/mailing address of
the men in the 2 units. |
