Worship Without Walls
SUNDAY, MAY 31
Thank You For Serving!
If you’d like to find out more about the area you served in, some of the organizations we partnered with today were The SEMO Food Bank, Kairos Prison Ministry, Street Level, and South Side Farms. These are all organizations you can volunteer with on your own!
We hope today inspired you to look for ways you can serve the community and pay attention to the needs around you. You don’t always have to serve with Compass Church, but if you’d like to, join our Mission Group!
DIVE DEEPER
Helping Without Hurting is a 10 day devotional about how God calls us to serve others.
“The gospel is not good news of personal salvation and a call to individual piety or holiness. It is a proclamation and call to demonstrate God’s kingdom work to the world… We are called to bring Christ’s reconciling work to bear on all the effects of sin on individuals and social systems. We seek a Christ-centered, fully orbed, kingdom perspective on what poverty alleviation entails.”
-excerpt from Day 3
We are called to serve, love others, and pursue justice and mercy, but sometimes good intentions hurt more than they help. We’d love for everyone to follow this devotional so that we can all help without hurting.
MORE RESOURCES
Discover how can we truly help people without hurting them in the process. This documentary-style series will guide you through principles outlined in the book, When Helping Hurts, and challenge you to determine what God is calling you to do. This resource is a Life.Church production in partnership with The Chalmers Center.
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Apply the principles of When Helping Hurts in your church with this practical guidebook for mercy ministry.
Learn how you can offer more than just money to people who are poor, fostering long-term transformation in their lives—and in yours.
Veteran urban activist Robert Lupton reveals the shockingly toxic effects that modern charity has upon the very people meant to benefit from it. Toxic Charity provides proven new models for charitable groups who want to help—not sabotage—those whom they desire to serve.
PROJECTS
Advance • Tornado Clean Up
Where: Advance, MO
What: Help a community member affected by the spring storms by repairing damage and cleaning up debris.
Please wear work clothes and bring gloves.
Picnic lunch provided!
When: 11:00 AM
Parking Lot • Mobile Food Pantry
Where: Grace UMC, 521 Caruthers Ave.
What: We will be distributing food from the SEMO Foodbank to our neighbors in need. Have fun bagging and distributing food!
When: 11:00 am – 2:00 pm (or until food runs out)
Fellowship Hall • Peanut Butter Cups
Where: Grace UMC Fellowship Hall, 521 Caruthers Ave.
What: We’ll be assembling travel sized cups of peanut butter for Street Level, a local non-profit dedicated to serving our homeless neighbors.
South Side Farm • Listen and Learn
Where: 900 S West End Blvd
What: Let’s go to the South Side Farm and learn about how they are addressing a food dessert in Cape Girardeau. SSF is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to providing fresh, locally sourced produce. The urban farm supports local food banks and community outreach programs that supply nutritious meals to those in need.
Please wear work clothes, in case there are projects we can do during our visit. Work shoes, Compass T-shirt (if you have one!) and gloves would be great. We will tour and work up to two hours most likely in the greenhouses and a picnic lunch will be provided after completion.
Fellowship Hall • Cookies for Kairos Prison ministry
Where: Fellowship Hall at Grace UMC, 521 Caruthers
What: Bake cookies for inmates at Bonne Terre Prison. They will be distributed in June through Kairos Prison Ministry. Bring your cookie mix or ready to bake dough (No powdered sugar or nuts!)
Aldi • Quarter Brigade
Where: Aldi
What: We’ll bless grocery shoppers by providing shopping totes, quarters for their carts, and offering to help carry groceries.