


POSSIBLE OPERATION INASMUCH PROJECTS
Operation Inasmuch, its title taken from Matthew 25:40, is an emphasis upon random acts of kindness performed by a congregation in its local community. Moving members “out of their seats and into the streets” allows a church to impact its community with the love of God in concrete fashion. There is no cost to the recipients of these acts of kindness and no obligation for a response. The effort can be done as an annual event or become an ongoing part of a church’s ministry to its community throughout the year. It also offers church members an opportunity to invite neighbors and others to join in these acts of kindness as a part of their testimony related to their service in the Kingdom of God
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Nursing home Ministry
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Sewing projects for Nursing Home residents (make a bag for their walker or a lap blanket)
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Home bound/Nursing Home visitation
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Make visitation record books for home bound/nursing residents
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Craft class at an assisted living home
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Provide respite care/in home babysitting or childcare
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Take flowers to a nurse's station in a clinic or hospital
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Clean a senior adults home
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Make "Life books" for foster children and deliver them to Social Services (a notebook in which they can put pictures, notes, letters, etc. for memories)
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Make suitable hats for chemo patients (knit or crochet)
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Provide for a needy child's birthday party
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Hold a baby shower for a Crisis Pregnancy Center
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Collect clothing or food for local needs
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Help at the food closet or soup kitchen
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Prepare and deliver lunches for participants
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Offer childcare for children of participants
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Cook a meal and deliver it
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Write letters to prisoners
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Install smoke alarms
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Home repairs
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Building wheelchair ramps
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Yard work for the elderly or disabled persons (mow, rake leaves, trim bushes and shrubs, clean gutters)
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Cut and deliver firewood to someone that would use it
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Plant a garden for someone
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Plant and take potted plants to individuals or families
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Landscape a school/EMS building/fire station
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Clean up a public play ground or park
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Wash cars and/or clean bathrooms at a service station
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Grade gravel drives and roads
- Clean up trash along road sides
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Make bird feeders out of plastic soda bottles
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Home safety checks (clean chimneys, working windows, safe outdoor steps and porches etc.)
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Vehicle safety checks
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Vacuum car interiors
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Blood pressure checks
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Plan a work project at a local Baptist Children's Home unit
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Camp Duncan- participate in projects such as construction and/or trail clearing and development
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Prayer project: 1) Have a prayer team pray before and during Project Inasmuch 2) Set up a prayer tent in a neighborhood (usually in conjunction with other projects in that area) to receive requests from locals 3) Do a prayer walk around local school or OIAM projects
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Host a back yard Bible Club
- Hold a Christian concert in a park, preceded by door-to-door invitations with Gospel tracks
- Organize soccer/softball/children's games or a one day sports camp
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Rummage sale-sell items for $1 each to benefit the Food Bank and/or coalition
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Hold a block party for a neighborhood
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Go to a laundromat and hand out quarters
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Give away new or gently used children's Bible story books
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Affirm public servants (take cookies or give a Bible to firemen, policemen, nurses, etc.)
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Distribute bibles in a neighborhood
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Coffee Connection- offer free coffee to people as they pass your church in the morning. Have information about your congregation and Bibles for them as well
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Free Breakfast-offer fellowship and a free hearty breakfast to the people in your community once a week
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Prepare several ready to bake meals to be stored in the church freezer and given to those who are in need of a meal
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Enlist the assistance of a licensed hairstylist in your congregation to provide free haircuts once a month