This may help you identify the characteristics of different target groups as well as help you to act (and not react) to community needs.
This tool will help uncover community needs as well as potential community outreach partnerships. Conduct a survey.Ĭreate a survey that is designed to assess community needs. Census Bureau website, government/town websites, local nonprofit websites and the Chamber of Commerce and Community Foundations to discover these unmet community needs. I often use research information from the U.S. Research community demographics, such as population trends, census data, lifestyles, faith involvement and household concerns. Discussions with senior leadership often help others buy into the vision.
Discover their vision for community outreach, the current strengths and weaknesses (as they see them), their history of partnerships, cultural considerations of those who attend their campus, etc. If you are not the senior leader at your church, talk with the senior pastor and those in leadership above you. Then, determine where there is a felt need. I have found that the overwhelming majority of church folks will only serve consistently in a small radius. They will only consistently serve at locations close to them. I have two recommendations: First, stay close to where your members/attendees live. Therefore, it is important to determine where you will serve as a church body.
You can’t serve everywhere in your community. Consider recruiting a team who pray weekly for community outreach and place prayer requests on your church’s social media platforms. Spend time praying over community outreach during staff meetings and your personal prayer time. Or develop strategies and initiatives that are void of God’s Spirit. It can be easy to rush into our plans and then ask God to bless them. When thinking about what the Lord would have you do in your community, you must wait on Him through prayer. Here is the process I have used in choosing partnerships with community outreach ministries: 1. Given our location, leadership, people and the concerns of our community, how can we best make an eternal impact for God’s kingdom in our local area? How can we make the name of Jesus more known? Who is doing great ministry in the community?.Placement in permanent employment at either the internship site or in a related position, or enrollment in an apprenticeship program, technical school or junior college to access higher-skilled employment and career opportunities.Often, churches get involved in community outreach ministries by observing the landscape and asking a couple of questions:.A four-month, paid internship in the private sector in an industry of interest for the student.A paid internship, 25-30 hours per week at a social enterprises or community service site, giving students on-the-job work experience.Classroom training in remedial education/GED studies, employment soft skills, basic computer skills, life skills and character development.Our vision is to open Employment Opportunity Centers in collaboration with each of the neighborhood resource center sites sponsored by OCS’s affiliate, Outreach Community Ministries, Inc.Įmployment Opportunity Centers have four components: The Employment Opportunity Center is a job training program designed to equip and empower young adults (18-24 years of age) to pursue employment and career goals through paid work opportunities, coaching, supportive case management and career exploration.
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