Are you looking for something fun and memorable for your family reunion or youth activity? Service always feels good and its benefits last way beyond the event. Check out these service ideas:
Happy May Day!
Have you ever knocked on someone’s door, hung a basket on the handle and yelled “May Day” as you ran away to hide? Probably not. The old traditions of the first day of May have been forgotten but it is a fun spring tradition and a great way to create and give.
Put Some Service In Your Spring Break
We’re all looking forward to spring break; it’s a great time for family-bonding! Along with all of the fun activities, schedule some feel-good service. It doesn’t have to take a lot of time, just a little pre-planning. There are lots of options if you are on the road or at home. Here’s some ideas:
Be a RAKtivist
It happened more than 19 years ago in the Lone Star State, just days after I had delivered my fourth child. It had been another crazy morning trying to feed the baby, do three girls’ hair, prepare sack lunches, and get my older two outside to catch the bus. The phone was ringing and I…
Tips and Tricks: Organizing Group Service
It was definitely a case of the more, the merrier this holiday season, when 25+ families joined efforts to fill more than 370 stockings for Utah Juvenile Justice Services. These bulging Christmas socks are likely the only gift most youth in the care of JJS will receive this holiday season. This project began with a…
Christmas Service Star
Many of my most vivid holiday memories have very little to do with the “prettiness” of Christmas. Pictures of these moments-if we even had them-would surely not be very Pin-able. I was probably wearing my over-sized basketball shorts, the lighting would have been awful, and there were definitely no burlap banners with matching drinks in…
Giving Back on Thanksgiving
It was exactly 8 years ago this month that my mom, sister and I set out to give back on Thanksgiving day. You wouldn’t find us at a soup kitchen or delivering turkey dinners (although those are both wonderful ideas). Instead you found as at the start line of a 5k – the Utah Human Race…