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Be The Change Morning Teas
Be involved in our Be The Change Morning Teas! Teams you can be involved with include Cleaning Blitzes, packing CityCare Food Packs, writing to letters to women imprisoned for their faith, Prayer Teams, University Teams & Random Acts of Kindness Teams!
Facts from our Be The Change Morning Tea on Thursday 30th April 09':
- Everyone contributed a Gold Coin Donation for the Food Kitchen in Mumbai!
- 124 women made 470 food packs for our CityCare Foodbank
- 47 women were involved in cleaning blitzes of our Hills Chapel, City Campus building and two homes
- 55 women pampered the elderly in nursing homes
- 104 women knitted for hospitals and the homeless
- 386 letters were written to women
- 69 women prayed for Bobbie, Colour London & Colour Kiev, Living Hope women, Be Her Freedom, Watoto & CityCare
- 30 women made and delivered lunch packs for all the children in two disadvantaged primary schools
- 21 women were on 2 university campuses
- 96 women were out and about doing Random Acts of Kindness, including delivering home baked goods
Testimonies from the Morning:
"Today at Be the Change Day, we launched the Sisterhood Knitters. Some women had already completed beautiful rugs, scarves and hats; others with needles poised, were ready to start. It was truly heartwarming to see how everyone was encouraging each other and I quickly found women who are willing to teach and help in any way. What a happy day and a wonderful start to an ongoing creative endeavour." Beverley
"A team of three ladies had the privilege of extending a helping hand to a busy family with one child and the mother expecting. The family had just moved into their new home; good times were shared and stories told as we, together, were able to help set up the kids room with toys and books, as well as clean the bathrooms, kitchen and floors." Kerryn
"Our Be The Change morning at the nursing home today was incredible. We massaged hands & shoulders and trimmed, filed & painted nails. It was such a great morning; we had lots of opportunity to sit and listen to their incredible life stories and even pray with some people. The nurses and director were thrilled about us coming and are very keen to have us Hillsong girls back anytime we want." Tina
Facts from our first Be The Change Morning Tea on Thu 5th March 09: • 143 food packs ready to be given through Hillsong CityCare
• 15 homes cleaned
• 262 letters written to women
• 82 women praying for Colour & our City/ Nation/ World!
• 9 teams of women doing Random Acts of Kindness!
• A great team at a university campus
A list of Hillsong Sisterhood Kindness in Action Community Programs:
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The Colour Sisterhood Collective Giving
- One80TC Australia
A
program aimed at young men, 16-35, to help eliminate their
self-destructive habits, by addressing the needs of the whole person.
Adopt-a-FamilyConnecting with new immigrant or refugee families, to help them adjust to Australian life.
Children's HospitalTo minister to parents and children in hospitals.
Embrace (Aged Care)Connecting with the elderly through nursing homes - individually and through small events within the homes.
Playgroup - Growing TogetherCommunity
children's programs run through Hillsong Kids, these initiatives help
make the season of life for parents of 0 to 5 year olds enjoyable and
connects them with others on the same journey.
Practical Parenting - Growing TogetherNew
Bubs (Birth to 12 months) and Early Childhood (12 months to 5 years of
age) mornings to give parents relevant practical advice and support
during this season of life.
Pregnant & Pampered Nights - Growing TogetherPregnant
& Pampered Nights are held for the 'Dad and Mum to be', where
they are made to feel extra special with massages, treats and guest
speakers who can answer the questions they may have for the next
exciting season.
Prison MinistryConnecting with women currently serving time to give them hope & friendship.
SAFE (Sexual Abuse: Freedom and Education)An educational and support program made available to any people in our community who have been affected by sexual abuse.
Scripture TeachingConnecting with young school students and bringing scripture into their worlds in the classrooms setting.
Solo Mums OutreachConnecting with single mums and helping them practically wherever needed.
Street TeamsA
community engagement program that empowers residents to address and
implement crime prevention strategies through community enhancement and
community inclusion, including random acts of kindness.
Watoto - Adopt an Orphanage
Ideas to Get started:Kindness
can be given (and experienced) in a number of ways.Here is an array of
ideas on how you could be a blessing to others.We hope it stimulates
your own creativity!
Extend your Heart ideas:
- Prayer Works -
Mobilise women who will diligently pray for all kindness endeavours
that come out of your local church and ministry.
- Mobilise Wisdom -
Mature women being available to give advice to younger women. Those who
have 'been there and successfully done it' before.
- Poetry in Motion - Send a card with a nice verse to someone.
- Ring Ring - Ring
and have a chat with someone who you know lives on their own and take
them out for lunch if they are able to get out.
- Paper Oh! - Hand deliver your neighbours' local newspapers to their door.
- Adopt a Friend -
Make an effort to become a friend of someone in church, someone who is
not in relationship with Jesus, or maybe a student who has just moved
to your town and would benefit from a family environment.
- Help Line - Make an encouraging phone call to a woman going through a tough time... "you will make it!"
- Hands of Warmth - Go visit the Children's Hospital and bring a smile to a little face.
- Young Forever - Take out a young person; this will need to be carefully done due to people needing to be pastorally approved.
- Just a small word - Thank everyone in your day that helps you in any way at all.
Extend your Time and Energy ideas:
- Heart to Heart - Pool human resources to BLESS those experiencing tragedy.
- The Beat - Initiate a group of women who clean houses or make meals for those who are sick or needy.
- Wash Day Happy - Bring in the neighbour's washing for them.
- Bringers - Be available to bring and coordinate to bring women and children to Hillsong Sisterhood and church.
- Baby-sitters - Offer to baby-sit and give a couple a night out.
- Food Works - Cook a meal for a neighbour/family.
- Action Speaks - Take a flower to all the shop assistants where you regularly shop
- Iron-a-thon - Do a solo mum or an older person's ironing for them.
- Born To Shop - Offer to do shopping for the sick or elderly.
- Lady Drivers -
Drive someone to their doctor's appointment. Offer to drive a busy
mum's children to soccer, school carnivals, church etc.
- Sweet Things - Bake a cake or pudding for someone.
- Soft Touch - Organise a pamper day for five friends.
- House minders - Offer to house-sit while folks are away on holidays.
- Dig Deep - Do the garden for your neighbour, the sick, frail or solo parent.
- Free Pass - Pay for the tolls of the 1 or 2 cars that are behind you.
- Surprise! - Visit the elderly with your children.
- Suds Away - Wash someone's car. Have a day when you use the church car park for the locals.
- Sip & Clean - Have a 'cuppa and cupboard' day. Clean cupboards for people unable to clean their own for whatever reason.
- Kids Galore - Organise free child care in centres across your town.
- 1+1=2 - Do some kind of workshop on how to budget.
- Vollies Are Great - Volunteer to do an outreach with some kind of charity program.
- Squeaky Clean - Pay to have someone else's pooch washed when you organise to have your own pooch washed.
- Party Animal - Have a neighbourhood party for no reason at all - invite the people on both sides and across the street.
- Mums Rule! - Take
a mum with young kids somewhere where the kids can play.She can have a
coffee and relax, and you do all the supervising of the kids (e.g.
local leisure centre, soft play etc)
- Green Grass - Mow the front lawn of the people next door.
- Play Detectives - Find out from your church those who have practical needs that you can meet... and do them.
- Love the Aged -
Pampering day at an Aged Care Facility - visit those the church already
has contact with: manicures, massages etc.
- Bless a Senior Day - Take a Senior out somewhere or stay at home and do something that needs doing for them.
- Angel Day - Help
someone from the congregation who needs assistance or companionship of
some kind. Anything from a visit to something more practical.
- Movie Time - Invite neighbours to see a movie with you.
- Home Church Day -
Have a day of getting into anything around the church that needs doing,
from rearranging cupboards to cleaning out the garage.
Extend these "NO TIME AT ALL" ideas:
- Meals with Smiles - Invite neighbours over for lunch or dinner.
- Roll 'em out - Put out AND return the neighbour's garbage bins.
- Games Night - Invite neighbours over for a fun night of games.
- Clean and Sweep – Sweep neighbour's leaves as well as your own.
- Dogs Rule - Walk the neighbour's dog the same time you walk your own.
- Christmas Giving - Pass the neighbours a Christmas present to put under their tree from your family.
- Birthday Bliss - Make yourself aware of someone's birthday, and send them a card.
- EXTEND THESE "FINANCIAL SOWING" IDEAS:
- Heaven on Earth -
Organise a 'Dial an Angel' to do the housework for someone having a
baby (if you're not available to do it yourself) so the house is nice
and clean when they come back from hospital.
- Thoughtfulness -
Find out what magazines your neighbours like to read, and if
appropriate, purchase a subscription for them for a time.
- Feel Good - Pay for a neighbour to have a facial, massage or the like.
- Gifts of Strength - Prepare gifts for parents with children in hospital.
- Free Time - Pay for a family pass to the zoo, theme park, or movies etc.
- Financial Works -
Business people who are willing to offer financial help to those the
church deem are in real financial need. Not paying people's debts but
helping them through the really tough times.
- Night on the Town - Pay for a baby-sitter and for the parents to go out to dinner. Cover the cost of the whole night.
- Picnics R Fun - Invite neighbours out for a picnic day; you supply everything!
EXTEND AN EXTRAVAGANT IDEA:
- Giving is Great - Pay for a holiday for someone you know who would never ordinarily go away.
- Mortgage Payment - Pay someone's mortgage for a month or even a year.
- Car - Buy a vehicle for someone, new or second hand.
- Clothes - Gift someone a new wardrobe.
- Research Works -
Give finances into the research of HIV/AIDS; Cancer and Heart Disease -
the three most common prayer requests in church.
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