How are you celebrating the activities, interests and commitments of people that happen outside of church? How can you take your support to them? Intentionally invite each other to activities and events that happen outside regular worship! Have you thought about having people from your congregation go out and be part of the audience, cheering on the young athletes from your community of faith? Perhaps supporting musicians in recitals and concerts? How about projects that are happening like school performances, science fairs? Special scouting or 4H events? Imagine if people across generations were celebrating and supporting each other by attending events and activities.
How could your congregation support school, after school, evening or weekend events that intentionally invite people from your community of faith to these places and spaces?
Would this be a way to support children and youth not active in your community of faith? What if a group of people regularly showed up supporting the proud grandparent, the family and the young person, if you know someone’s grandchild is doing a dance recital, a sports activity, or other event?
How might you support what students in post-secondary are doing?
How might you support the activities and interests of adults of all ages?
Can you include invitations in your PowerPoints for events people have going on outside the community of faith? Add them in a special calendar? Create invitation notices? Perhaps you can colour code the invitations to activities in categories such as one colour for sports, another for music, another for arts, another for education, that sort of thing, whatever fits for your community of faith’s context. Can you engage in intentional prayer for these people and activities? Can you plan to take the family out for a celebratory treat after? Can you take photos to share with the community of faith? Can you create space in newsletters to share news of people’s activities?
