Growth Ideas 101: For Love of Reading (July 16, 2025)

How might a love of reading be a ministry opportunity through your community of faith? This July one community of faith is supporting a community partnership with their local literacy association and is supporting 37 children who are getting tutoring. How about reading buddies in your local school? At your local library? Offering reading support to newcomers looking for English opportunities? helping shut-ins, taking library books to them? Reading to residents living in seniors homes? Offering a story time outside? Hosting an author to do a reading and to share about their work? Hosting a book sale? Setting up that tiny library? Hosting book or article talks? Checking out new children’s books read-a-loud online to get ideas for books, planning a fall book ideas event to share book recommends to plan for holiday gifts of books, providing historical moments others can read about your local area, setting up a book corner, … your own creative ideas …Perhaps you can pair “literacy and lunch” or “books and cooks”? Share your ideas with me.