Missional Families in 100 Ways

Here are 100 ways to make a difference locally and/or globally.

1. Babysit for a single mom so she can have a couple hours to run errands or have personal time. Write a letter or Scripture devotional for her to read and encourage her in the faith.
2. Teach compassion with a Family Giving Box
3. Launch your family on mission with a Family Mission Statement.
4. Bake cookies (or any dessert) for your local fire deptartment and provide an invitation to your church services.
5. Pick up trash at local park as a family field trip
6. Create snack packs for Ronald McDonald residents. Write a note of encouragement and blessing from our church family.
7. Welcome a new family to the neighborhood with a dessert and introduction.
8. Pray for unreached people groups and missionaries around the world.
9. Color a Smile-print coloring page to be given to lift someone in need up
10. Make a baby care kit for a new infant family in need. Attach a note with Psalm 127 printed out.
11. Take time each week to “unplug” as a family to talk, listen, and pray for one another’s lives.
12. Donate your time or treasure to the Make a Wish Foundation
13. Appreciate church leaders and teachers in some small, tangible way.
14. Do yard work for an elderly neighbor or get a group to sing Christmas Carols at a nursing home.
15. Make a Life Book for a child in Foster Care
16. Read You Were Made to Make A Difference as a family
17. Volunteer to serve at a homeless shelter in our area.
18. Read Christmas Jars as family
19. Save loose change in a jar and give to a needy family at Christmas
20. Take a family volunteering vacation
21. Stop and say thank you to grocery clerks, waitresses. Ask them how they are doing and offer to pray for them.
22. Become a monthly sponsor to help pregnant girls in Kenya
23. Make a birthday cake for an underpriviledged child
24. Serve at home: make each other’s beds, clean up someone else’s mess
25. Write thank you notes to people who serve you: postman, yard guy, doctor, etc
26. Sponsor a Compassion Child monthly (cannot recommend enough)
27. Make relief kits for disaster relief victims
28. Sew a sleeping bag for someone in need (easy pattern)
29. Volunteer in an outreach opportunity
30. Make up some Hygiene Bags to pass out to local homeless people
31. Take your family on a tour of the city. Read Matthew 9:35-38 and pray together.
32. Put a quarterly date on the calendar for small group service mission.
33. Take a meal to a new family at your church.
34. Write a card of encouragement to someone who lost a loved one this year.
35. Encourage your older children to be a Mother’s Helper to a mom with young kids
36. Fill a backpack to help give a homeless person a lift up
37. Make birthday cards and deliver them to a local nursing home monthly
38. Donate books to Africa
39. Take your kids to a local Food Pantry with canned goods to donate
40. Deliver food for Meals on Wheels
41. Pray as a family on a regular basis for the people in your life.
42. Donate your hair to Locks of Love.
43. Give blood. (Take your kids with you and explain the importance).
44. Donate nice toys to cancer ward at a Children’s Hospital
45. Buy a mosquito net and help prevent malaria
46. Randomly celebrate a friend with a special treat, meal, time to extend God’s love.
47. Donate school supplies to a classroom in need.
48. Compliment and thank school teachers in your life (past & present).
49. Buy a soccer ball for a child in poverty.
50. Donate money & t-shirt drive towards an international missions organization.
51. Donate coloring books/crayons to hospital emergency rooms
52. Host a 40 hour famine in your home (fast something!)
53. Give clothes to a family in need (call your church/school to find one)
54. Read to a special needs child.
55. Buy a goat for a family in extreme poverty
56. Give a donation for a Bible in someone’s name in honor or memory of that person.
57. Send your used shoes to Reuse-a-Shoe
58. Become Certified Respite Caregivers to give Foster Family’s a babysitting
59. Decorate a Christmas tree at an elderly person’s house
60. Hold a collection drive: makeup, lotions, etc for women at a shelter
61. Find a Food Bank near you to volunteer
62. Deliver toy prizes, coloring books or candy to children at a children’s hospital.
63. Offer your pet for therapy to the elderly
64. Decorate nursing home rooms of residents with homemade art
65. Have regular “family nights” with games, ice cream, time together.
66. Visit the NICU with treats for anxious parents and offer to pray for them.
67. Participate in Angel Tree Prison Fellowship.
68. Read to patients at a local hospital.
69. Plan a family mission trip.
70. Bake cookies, host a bake sale and donate money to the poor or a cause
71. Volunteer at a local animal shelter
72. Plant a garden and share the produce
73. Hold a drive for lightly-used stuffed animals for police stations SAFE program
74. Write letters to servicemen or veterans. Thank them for fighting for freedom and how you have experienced ultimate freedom in Jesus Christ.
75. Give a micro loan and change a family in a third world country
76. Make care packages for children in the hospital. Write a note that tells them they are special in God’s eyes and that you are praying for them.
77. Instead of a birthday gifts, ask for donations for a charity or food for a food pantry
78. Shop fair trade
79. Offer to decorate hospital hallways during the holidays
80. Ask your city or chamber of commerce about volunteering
81. Make no-sew fleece blankets for Hospice
82. Send a care package to our military
83. Collect shoes for Shoes for Kids (started by an 11 year old girl)
84. Let kids choose a charity to donate to for one of their Christmas gifts
85. Become a foster family or adopt a child.
86. Pay for someone’s drink in Starbuck’s drive-thru. Make sure your kids enjoy the act of kindness.
87. Help your kids starts a neighborhood or school Bible Study with their peers
88. Volunteer to plant flowers for your school/church flowerbeds
89. Make a Care Bag for a child in need
90. Welcome home a hero at the airport
91. Complain less
92. Start an All Pro Dad club at your school or community.
93. Look for opportunities to be the difference in someone’s life
94. Host a virtual food drive
95. Start a KidzRap on your street!
96. Purchase gifts through families fundraising for adoption.
97. Pray for your pastor(s)
98. Pay the toll for the car behind you. Leave a note telling them Jesus loves them with your church website.
99. Invite friends to Vacation Bible School
100. Participate in Operation Christmas Child

Adapted from All Pro Dad