What do you say to a Burning Bush?

Sunday, January 25 2015
Jim Manchester

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Opportunities for ministry that Jim mentioned....

Your Burning Bush moment might be about something that is needed right here at Imani….

Singing in Imani’s Choir
Taking care of the building and helping others clean it regularly
Working with the Sound Team on Sunday mornings
Working on the garden and lawn around the building
Clearing out a Prayer Trail in the woods behind the church
Planting a Community Garden in the open fields next to our building, maintaining it, and helping the community harvest it. You can start preparing the ground now!
Volunteering to organize the worship leaders and volunteers for our services
Finding places to put all the things we have piled up in the back room so that the back room can be used for an 12-step meeting on nights when we’re not using it
Perhaps it might be to increase your regular tithe amount by 1 or 2 percentage points and make sure your gifts can be counted on each week

Your Burning Bush moment might be something else going on in Durham….

Getting involved in one of the new LGBTQ Center of Durham task forces
Getting involved in the work of Durham Congregations in Action. They have lots of projects going on.
Organizing an Electronics Recycling Day for your neighborhood and having the proceeds benefit ReachOUT NC
Volunteering one weekend a month on one of the ReachOUT NC community projects like Habitat for Humanity, the Ronald McDonald House, Haven House, or one of the parks or playgrounds that they refurbish
Volunteering at the VA Hospital right here in Durham
Volunteering to help victims of crime through the Durham County Criminal Justice Resource Center
Volunteering to help ex-offenders re-enter our community and begin their journey of recovery through the CJRC. One option is the Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) program.
Cooking a meal for a family in your neighborhood, taking it to them, and sharing your time as you eat it with them

Your Burning Bush moment might be something even bigger….

Volunteering to work with the Chatham Social Health Council to get the word out about HIV/AIDS testing in our area
Volunteering with an HRC-Triangle event that helps people realize how important it is to end workplace discrimination and transgender discrimination and all of the other important work they do to change people’s minds
Organize a group to attend the spiritually uplifting MCC General Conference in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in July of 2016.
Get a contingent of people ready to join the 50th Anniversary March on Washington to commemorate Stonewall in 2019. It’s only 4 short years away, people! Jim has some people you can contact about that.
And God may be leading you to something even bigger!