10 Ways Your Youth Group Can Serve Your City

  1. Paint a mural.Even non-artists can participate! Read this story from Benton Harbor, MI
  2. Go on a local “mission trip” to their city.Service begins at home as these teens learned in Newark, NJ, U.S.
  3. Create awareness about drug abuse.These youth marched through their city of Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe
  4. Pick up trash at a beach or park or in a neighborhood.Invite non-Adventist friends to join you in service as was done in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
  5. Take part in a city-impact day. 200 youth in Mexico City, Mexico used origami, drama, a "Sabbath sofa," and more to reach out
  6. Do monthly community service.Adventists in Kigali, Rwanda were commended by a top government official for their service.
  7. Provide yard care for seniors or disabled. Just one of many approaches to service in Allentown, PA, U.S.
  8. Clean a zoo while offering free food, health books and more. Like #CareTeamKorat in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
  9. Provide backpacks to your city's homeless residents.And provide dinner while you're doing so--like members in Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.
  10. Plant trees around the city.Like students in 36 Adventist schools around Goiás, Brazil




Bonus: get involved in Global Youth Day!