Canceling Sunday Services to Serve the Community
Next month, West Ridge Church will be canceling Sunday services to take part in Community Makeover, a weekend of churches coming together to serve in their community. The makeover takes place July 23-25 all over Metro Atlanta. Each church communicates with local organizations to fund and develop service projects in their area. Last year 35 churches and over 4,000 volunteers teamed up to clean, landscape, plant, weed, repair and rebuild. It’s an incredible opportunity to be the church outside of the walls of the church.
Community Makeover is an event hosted by Engage Atlanta, an organization dedicated to introducing people to the love of Christ through community transformation. West Ridge helped launch Engage Atlanta to create alliances between churches whose denominations and differences have long kept them apart. This allows volunteers to experience the unity of the Church by serving together and engaging the community.
To be a part of any of the service projects during Community Makeover go to their website to find a complete list of projects and registration information.
This year 77 churches are participating in Community Makeover. Here’s a sample list:
1st Baptist Church Lithia Springs, Lithia Springs
A Fresh Hope, Dallas
Bethany Christian Church, Dallas
Beulahland Baptist Church, Rockmart
Bright Star UMC, Douglasville
Burnt Hickory Baptist Church, Powder Springs
Cedarcrest Church, Acworth
Central Baptist Church, Douglasville
Christ Central, Dallas
Church at Chapel Hill, Douglasville
Church at the Ridge, Douglasville
Crossroads United Methodist Church, Marietta
Crossview Church, Rockmart
Dorsett Shoals Baptist Church, Douglasville
Douglasville Vineyard, Douglasville
Eagle Pointe Church, Acworth
Ephesus Baptist Church, Villa Rica
Fellowship Methodist Church, Hiram
First Presbyterian Church ,Douglasville
First United Methodist Church, Douglasville
Fortified Hills Baptist Church, Dallas
Gracepointe Church, Dallas
Hurt Road Baptist Church, Smyrna
Impact Church, Atlanta
Johnson Ferry Baptist Church, Marietta
King Spring Baptist Church, Smyrna
Life’s Hope Baptist Church, Marietta
Lost Mountain Baptist Church, Powder Springs
New Genesis Community Church, Decatur
New Salem Baptist Church, Kennesaw
New Victory Family Life Church, Lithia Springs
Noonday Baptist Church, Kennesaw
North Metro Church, Marietta
North View Baptist Church, Dallas
Northwest Christian Church, Acworth
Oasis Family Life Church, Dallas
Olive Springs Baptist Church, Marietta
Orange Hill Baptist Church, Austell
Piedmont Church, Marietta
Pilgrim Baptist Church, Marietta
Providence Community Baptist Church, Marietta
Providence Presbyterian Church, Dallas
Roswell Street Baptist Church, Marietta
Shallowford Falls, Marietta
St Julian’s Episcopal Church, Douglasville
Trinity Anglican Church, Douglasville
Trinity Chapel, Powder Springs
West Ridge Church, Dallas
Don’t see your church’s name on the list? There’s still time to register! Just contact Paul, the pastor on our team that facilitates partnerships with other churches and organizations.
why cancel church. VOLUNTEER IN THE COMMUNITY THE OTHER 6 days. Church on Sunday is to equip us to impact our community daily.
Yep, and this helps communicate that priority for those connected to the church and people outside the faith who think churches are filled with inward-focused hypocrites.
Now THIS is what it means to be a COMMUNITY that shows the World how to love… :)
Patrick Steil
churchbuzz.com
Absolutely incredible. I commend you guys, really, If i lived nearby I would go volunteer seriously, what I way to BE the church in the community.
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We’ve done this the last three years at our church in Hemet, CA and I can’t express the impact that it has people that aren’t connected with any church. It’s an opportunity for us to work with people who expect the church to just sit in the seats on Sundays. This year we involved other churches in our community and had 10 churches involved and it was amazing to meet fellow believers in a different context! So Godspeed this Weekend!
You don’t have to cancel services. We send between 50-100 people out each week to church in the community. They serve, love and worship in unique ways each week. We work within a three mile radius of the church and they are back before the end of service usually. When our area battled the recent flood of Franklin and Nashville, TN, we sent over 100 people into the community each day. Come on church get out there!