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COMPASSION MINISTRY SERVING OPPORTUNITIES Transportation Team • Drive others to appointments, grocery store, and church. • Offer assistance in shopping and carrying grocery bags. • Build relationships along the way through conversation and prayer to and from locations.

Visitation Team • Encourage the homebound, sick, grieving, and those in lengthy hospital visits. • Listen to and pray with those facing difficulty • Able to travel to the individual’s location at scheduled time(s). • Emotionally available and un-burdensome to those in need of encouragement.

S.W.A.T. Team • Handymen/women to help to others (Ex. widows, single mothers, elderly, etc.) with plumbing, electrical, basic car maintenance, mowing, and more. • Be on-call for emergency needs and able to provide on-site assistance as able.

Funeral Help Team • Help oversee catering set-up and serving. • Establish a calm atmosphere and a confidence that the meal is prepared and ready to nourish those in need. • Assist caterer in setting up. • Apply and uphold ServSafe protocol.

Meals Team

• Feed those in crisis or grieving while the meal train is being set up. • Share ready-to-bake or ready-to-eat meals with those who have just lost a loved one or are suddenly unable to prepare meals for themselves or their families. • Ease someone’s burden by delivering meals directly to his or her house.

Prayer Team

• Pray faithfully for others. • Commit to getting on the Prayer Wall a specific number of times each day or week, and marking the requests you pray for. Visit yourchurch.com/compassionserve to sign up for one or more of these opportunities.