Your Next Community Service Project
Community service projects are an excellent way for organizations to respond to their calling, engage young people in serving, and inspire unity. Here are three ways your organization can participate in Maker’s Box™ to make a kingdom difference in your community. But first…
What is Maker’s Box™?
Maker’s Box™is ideal for mission trips, Vacation Bible School curricula, camps, and group settings. Whether you choose a theme and order items a la carte for corporate teaching or order complete boxes to support foster families or single moms, Maker’s Box™ is a flexible and impactful tool.
Maker’s Box™ aims to combat the spiritual battles faced by vulnerable children. The all-in-one children’s discipleship box series is designed to help children, especially those who are hurting, connect with God as their Maker, revealing one of His character attributes with each box.
How to Get Involved
Churches, community groups, and other community-minded organizations can host a Maker’s Box™ Packing Party.
First, choose a theme, then order box items a la carte. Groups will receive empty boxes and envelopes along with all the necessary contents. Your group can then gather to pack the boxes, pray over them, and distribute them to vulnerable families in your community or return them to One More Child for distribution.
Organizations like yours have used Maker’s Box™ in service projects in three ways.
#1 – Raise Funds Strategically:
First Baptist Church in Tomball, Texas, used their Vacation Bible School mission offering to purchase 100 Maker’s Boxes™. Volunteers packed the boxes and donated them to the Moses Closet, a Houston-area resource center for foster families. The previous year, they had tried 25 boxes to gauge the response from foster families who loved them, and they quickly ran out. The recent donation of 100 boxes helped restock their resource center, providing foster families in the church’s community with tools to introduce the children in their care to God.
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” -James 1:27 NIV
#2 – Engage Youth Missionally:
This year, 30 high school students from the Jupiter Christian Academy in Jupiter, Florida, cut, counted, sorted, and packaged crafts for Maker’s Boxes™ to send to our global ministry partners for orders in other countries. This activity provided a wonderful opportunity to share the mission of One More Child and engage high schoolers in serving vulnerable children.
“Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity.” -Timothy 4:12 NIV
#3 – Unite Your Organization:
A Maker’s Box™ packing event was recently held at Discovery Church in Fort Pierce, Florida. More than 50 volunteers participated in packing and preparing boxes. The event was a tremendous success, with the pastor leading a church-wide prayer over the boxes before they were sent to vulnerable children One More Child serves.
By participating in Maker’s Box™, you can provide an opportunity for your organization to be a doer of the Word while making a meaningful difference in the lives of vulnerable children and families in your community.
