How Do I Set Up A Home Repair Team, Part I
Is your church considering or open to home repair as an outreach or mercy ministry? Or are you in the process of organizing? One of the most important steps in setting up your home repair team is...
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How Do I Set Up A Home Repair Team, Part II
This is part two of the blog series, "How Do I Set Up a Home Repair Team?" In the first post, we looked at the ministry leadership team and role. This series is one possible way to set up a home repair...
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How Do I Set Up A Home Repair Team, Part III
This is the third and final part of the three-part blog series, "How Do I Set Up a Home Repair Team?" In the first post, we looked at the ministry leadership team and role. In the second blog, we...
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Should We Take the Project?
Once your home repair team is taking projects it is important to have criteria by which you can make a "go/no go" decision. It is generally good practice not to make a snap decision on helping if there...
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Why We Serve Together With Many Churches
The short version of our ministry's Mission Statement is "Repairing Homes and Hearts as Churches Serve Together". The second part of that statement is very important to us because we believe serving...
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Increasing Ministry Impact by Doing Less (…ourselves)
If you have been following the ministry for a while, you know that our heart is to extend the gospel, our outreach and the ministry as far as we can while uniting the church together in service. Last...
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3 Ways You Can Have More Impact Without More Budget
Collaborating with other service agencies can help you, as it helps our ministry, work more efficiently and get more done. How? 1) Getting projects via referral. We get a good percentage of our...
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Passing it On
1969 was a big music year. The Beatles "Yellow Submarine" was released and the Woodstock concert was held on a dairy farm in the Catskills. The same year, a song called “Pass it On” (copyright Bud John...
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E Pluribus What???
Take a look at any coin in your pocket. Somewhere on there it will say, “E Pluribus, Unum”. What does that mean, and what does that have to do with a home repair ministry? Actually, it has a lot to do...
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How You Can Engage Your Community – Part 4
This blog continues the series on how churches, outreach teams and service ministries can impact their communities. The last way we'll discuss to serve your communities (although far from the last way...
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Multiplying Impact By Serving Foster Families
By the grace of God, we're regularly learning new things... Our priority is to be good stewards of the resources God gives us, and the financial investments that our supporters and volunteers have...
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