Ark Almighty
WHAT IS ArkALMIGHTY?
ArkALMIGHTY is a good deeds program that matches up the needs in your congregation with the talents and skills of the members of your church. Gathering the needs of your attendees, these requests are compiled on a Craigslist-type website administered by your church. Then, the members of your church can easily search through the needs and find ways they can help.
The ArkALMIGHTY.com website is designed to enable youth groups and churches to easily get involved in practical and tangible volunteer outreach. Can you balance a checkbook? Can you hang a picture frame? Can you throw a spiral? You might not think of these everyday activities as volunteering, but for the people around you who can’t do them, your ability and your willingness to help is exactly what they need. You’d be amazed how a simple act of kindness can change lives.
WHY ArkALMIGHTY?
Helping others is at the heart of ArkALMIGHTY. And while everyone can agree that Christians should be involved in neighborhood volunteer activities, some may wonder if this kind of program is really necessary within your church. The answer is a resounding “Yes!” Face it, there are needs in every seat and in every row. For example, maybe there’s a single mom in your midst who doesn’t know how to teach her son to throw a baseball, or an elderly person who needs a ride to the doctor, or a young couple who would love advice on saving for a home. Maybe there’s a college student who could use help moving into her first apartment, or a widow that could use a helping hand washing her windows, or a recently laid-off worker who could use help polishing up his resumé. There are countless needs out there that, up until now, have had no way to be met. But now they do, thanks to ArkALMIGHTY.
Imagine it—Christians helping fellow Christians through the rough patches of everyday life—living out precisely what Jesus called us to do: love one another. In addition, your congregation will quickly discover that being a “volunteer” doesn’t just mean ladling out soup at a homeless shelter. How wonderful it will be for them to discover that their own handful of everyday talents and abilities can be used in service! By searching your church’s ArkALMIGHTY webpage, your congregation will soon see just how much need there is in their midst— and that they can be the catalyst for change. Furthermore, by helping one another in very practical ways in our church, we send an extraordinary message out to the world, “Here are people that care for each other.” In so doing, we establish credibility when we move beyond our church walls.
www.arkalmighty.com
If you have any questions contact Burks McGlasson- burks@fcov.org or 480.838.6559