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