In an effort to respond more promptly to local, regional, and global needs and events my church is working on the formation of a Compassion Team. Here is an overview of our current concept.
Primary duties:
- Discern the area and the need from news, literature, emails, and websites.
- Quantify the needs - E.g. Number of people affected; the type of needs such as housing, food, water, medicine, clothing.
- Enlist the help of the committee members to gather information.
- Research what other organizations are doing or proposing to do.
- Bring a recommendation of how we could be involved with funds, tangible goods or personnel.
Scope:
- Local - Within one day’s drive
- National - United States
- International - All Others
Resources:
- Partnership with aid agencies
- Direct money contributions
- Purchase of needed supplies and materials
- Sending personnel
- Prayer
Ideas:
- Develop a template/grid for tracking current issues
- Location
- Causes of need
- Types of aid needed
- Projected length of recovery or needed aid
- Current situational statistics
- Who is doing what
- Is direct gospel outreach possible?
- Rank the issues, dividing them into local, national, and international
- Set an information sharing system via email, websites
Has anyone done anything similar? Possibilities for how we might improve this idea? It will be interesting to see how this plays out over the next 3, 6, 9, and 12 months.
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