35 Outreach Ideas for Small Churches
- Sponsor a school or classroom
- Annual revivals
- Christian-Family movie night
- Neighborhood dinner
- Community festival
- Halloween alternative
- Honor community heroes
- Christmas play
- Community garden
- Buy school supplies for poor children
- Parents’ night out or Mother’s morning out
- Homecoming…invite former members back
- Recognize veterans and military
- VBS
- Community thanksgiving service
- Church day camp (Good soul-winning and training tool for children)
- Day trips for senior citizens
- Senior adult programs, lunch
- Church yard sale
- Free carwash
- Host English as a second language class or a computer training class
- Grief ministry (Check obituaries and deliver baskets with goodies and a pastor’s letter)
- Grandparents day
- Mother’s day and Father’s day
- Church Anniversary
- Nursing home ministry
- Report card rewards and recognition
- Lock in or lock out
- Door-to-door food collection for community food bank (Good way to hand out tracts)
- Christmas parties for seniors, kids, families, target groups
- Volunteer recognition (Could be for church volunteers or community volunteers)
- Addiction programs
- Single adult or single parent programs
- Neighborhood inventories and assessments
- Prayer ministry