Group Ideas

People who love interacting with other people really get a chance to help us get everybody working together and reaching more. There are so many needed things you could do. Read about how to do a Rummage Sale to raise funds or, if you're more into demonstrations, read about how to plan a Paper Doll Demonstration or Homelessness Demonstration.

Some more ideas that come to mind are – planning themed dinner parties, these could be informal or formal, large or small. It’s relatively easy to do if you do it potluck style and most people will come out where food is involved. At the dinner party, you could talk about the Love Maputo Project, show the Love Maputo mini documentary ( if you don’t have one already, we could get one to you) and then have an open forum to talk about it afterwards. We encourage you to have everyone go around and talk about what talents, gifts, interests that they have that they’d like to use for God one day and to help His people.  You could also try planning a

Then get us their info and we’ll begin to work with those people one on one to help them start living their calling right now, reaching people around the world using the talents that they already have. (maybe have them write their contact info on index cards w their talent – you can email these to us after). From this standpoint, we can help them to plan events at your college using their talents and YOU can use your organization/ administration / people loving talents to help get everyone collaborating on these events.  

 Another fun and powerful thing you can do is to get everyone together to take make encouraging cards for the street kids being reached by the Love Maputo Project. A lot of them are new Christians and have faced very difficult and heartbreaking things in their young lives. They could use the encouragement of knowing that there are brothers and sisters in Christ lifting them up in prayer around the world. Maybe take a picture of yourself and put it in the cards as well. Get the cards to us at this address: PO BOX 177 BRYANS ROAD, MD 20616 and we will translate them into Portuguese for the kids to read.  End the card making party with a prayer meeting. We can get you a list of prayer requests to pray over.

 You could collect spare change from everyone in your dorm /apt building at the end of the month. Announce a month in advance so they can have all month to save up. We can make you cool posters.

Tyedye tee parties are also a fun hands-on way to generate interest. We could get you white love Maputo tees for just $6 each – so you’ll need to order ahead of time. Then you could have everyone learn how to tyedye their tees themselves to make them especially unique! You’d need to purchase dye and have table coverings, rubber gloves, rubber bands, clothes that can get messed up or aprons and a big space available. If you haven’t tye dyed before, just google it. Be sure to take lots of pictures and a video would be fun too. We can use this on the site to inspire more people to get involved. The profit from the tees bought would go to the Love Maputo Project of course. Wearing the shirts serves as a good reminder to pray for the kids. It also makes a statement if you all wear them on the same day and some students ask professors if they can speak for 5 minutes at the beginning of class to talk about the Love Maputo Project. It’s a good way to stir involvement.

 These are just a few ideas.

There are endless ways to get people together –  once you know what everyone's talents and interests are. Make sure your read our how-to on "Finding People's Talents". Then get people with similar talents working together. They can look up ideas for how they can use their talents on the Do Something page. There are all sorts of ideas-  benefit concerts, bake sales, hike-a-thons, benefit dinners, creative videos, poetry readings, art shows, rummage sales, paper doll chain demonstration ... so many things. Make sure you take the time to read over them so you have an idea of what ideas would be most pertinent to your group.

You could also have a JESUSpolitik speaker come to your school to speak to a specific group on campus or in chapel, you can help us get people charged up, encouraged and using their talents for God and His people. You can be the voice on your campus getting the word out about the Love Maputo Project.

 Check out these stories of groups of people that used their talents for the Lord:

 

 Sweet Cookies for Sweet People.

 

 

"Two are better than one because they have good reward for their labor." Ecclesiastes 4:9

Group Ideas