Most churches stay closed all week long. Open the church doors and invite people inside by developing a rotating reason for them to visit:
Open a prayer room. Leave a basket for notes to be left asking others to pray.
Organize an art display of local church or community artists around a devotional theme. The images do not have to be of religious subjects but images that reflect a theme of the devotion (hope, joy, love, etc.). Invite people to place penny votes for each piece of art and funds raised go to a local charitable cause.
Establish a "stations of the Cross" style pray journey with visual, sound and tactile objects to move through the cycles of the Christian year.
Organize a Mission or Outreach into the community work day to
- prepare or organize foods for blessings boxes
- pack or distribute sack lunches to shut in's -
- organize games to go (rotating board games - make sure all can be cleansed)
- reading bags (a washable bag and washable toy with a books suitable for children to read alone or read to a sibling, a Top it Off (baseball caps in the spring and summer and stocking caps in fall and winter) give away or pick up station....
