SERVICE IDEAS

Here is our first Service Idea List:

-Serve at Soup Kitchen- Tri-City Union Gospel Mission  www.tcugm.org                                            Serve meals, prepare & serve meals, sort items for their store
-Walk Dogs/ Pet cats at Humane Society
                 collect items to donate to Humane Society
-Play with/read to kids at hospitals                                                                                                           -Balloon animals for kids in hospitals (found out can't do so moved it to giving to homeless kids at Gospel Mission
-Yard work for Elderly/widows
-Visit rest homes
-Piano playing/dancing/playing games/talking  at rest homes
-Food shopping/collecting for food banks- get list & contacts
-RAKs
-Bishops storehouse
-Pick fresh fruit & share it
-Collect things for women's shelter
-Write anonymous kind notes
-Notes of gratitude
-Tape quarters to candy machines & rides at the mall
-Buy food gift cards to give away
-Drive through service (pay for the cars items that is behind us)
-Plant flowers for someone
-Give a family fuzzy socks (Braelin's idea;)
-Safe Harbor Crisis Center needs
-Indexing
-Picking up trash
-Donating books
-Make FHE kits for young families/ quiet books
-Heart attack people
-"Ding Dong" door ditching
-Tie fleece blankets for cancer center & project Linus
Write to missionaries
"Gift boxes" for missionaries in our mission
-Fetal demise bracelet sets
-Hygiene kits
-Heifer Society (buy animals for families in Africa)
-Smile week
-Sincere compliment week
-Family secret service week
-Gratitude week
-Service people Gratitude week:                                                                                            Firefighters/Police appreciation
Cookies / thank-you sign for Garbage workers
Life savers or other treat/Thank you signs for postal workers
-Bus stop dollar coin project
-Good Will donations
-Back to school donations (backpacks,school supplies)
-Coats for kids                                                                                                                                Collect hat, scarves & mittens (or make fleece scarves) to donate to local schools

-Book of Mormon project                                                                                                                         -Church humanitarian projects
-Water 4 Africa project/ A Long Walk to Water project
-Pull weeds for others
-ARC of Tri-Cities- Parners n Pals Summer Camp
-Hospice House
-Sewing projects
-Buy flowers or plant & give to random person in the parking lot

-Volunteer Chore Services: Catholic Family Services                                                                       Help the poor/Elderly with home projects                                                                                    

 

This is the list so far. It was super fun coming up with ideas & talking to some of the organizations! If anyone has any other ideas let us know.  My kids have now started asking what service we will be doing at our upcoming vacations this year.  I love it!!

-- Rebecca