Although it’s not Valentine’s Day yet, we wanted to get you thinking about the holiday and how love and appreciation can be translated into your community work.  While giving others a Valentine once a year is definitely a nice gesture, finding ways to show them how much you love and appreciate them on a regular basis should be what you strive for daily.  Consider involving your children and  apply your creative energy to think of new ways to accomplish loving others daily.  Remember, love tends to bring separate people together; love is sharing and caring;  love unites us; and love is your willingness to share yourself.

1. Serve a meal at a homeless shelter
2. Read a book at a school
3. Visit the elderly in a nursing home
4. Coach a youth sport
5. Do crafts at an after school program
6. Deliver baked goods to a rescue station
7. Give clothes to a family in need
8. Host a dessert party in your neighborhood
9. Take magazines for those in the hospital
10. Write a note of encouragement to a coworker
11. Give bibles to a church or local ministry
12. Play outside with a child of a single mom
13. Take a family a meal – just because
14. Volunteer at a community event
15. Pick up trash at a park
16. Give socks and undergarments to a homeless ministry
17. Invite a friend, neighbor, coworker  to church
18. Give a bible to someone that doesn’t have one
19. Plant flowers for a neighbor or at a community agency
20. Give a manicure to an elderly person and listen to their stories
21. Tutor a child after school
22. Become a foster parent
23. Give travel size hygiene items to a homeless ministry
24. Babysit for a single parent or foster family
25. Wash a car for a family in need
26. Sort items at a local food bank
27. Help with office work at a community agency
28. Give baby items to a local pregnancy center
29. Teach English as a second language
30. Share the gospel of Christ with someone through your testimony
31. Give new undergarments to a women’s shelter
32. Give copy paper, office supplies, school supplies to a struggling school
33. Sounds crazy – give your car away
34. Go on a missions trip – it will change your life
35. Give a gift card for a single mom or foster family to go out to eat or for an activity
36. Give an old computer to a needy school or ministry
37. Send a thank you card to someone who has influenced you lately
38. Mow the lawn of someone else
39. Sing a song to someone in the hospital