Servolution- the results

A month ago we did an event as a church called ‘7 days of Servolution’ (see previous posts). This was a week organised by Healing Place church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. We were one of over 250 churches (mainly in the US) spread out all over the world that ‘served’ people outside the church.
When I heard about this initiative I felt this would be a great thing to start the church as a whole to think about mission. For me mission is a way of life and not just an event, but as I have been taught and learned, event leads to process, or should do!
Therefore I encouraged every small group in the church to do at least one hour of service in this week.

The teenagers cleaning some of the local parks.
Overall the week was a real success even though some groups didn’t capture the idea. The great thing is that many people in the church and some cell groups are now continuing to serve in different ways outside the church.
During the week one group visted the ‘hospital of the child’ and gave out free nappies and other things for babies at 7.00 in the morning!

The teenagers giving out water to people passing by. (Their t-shirts say i'm here at your service)

Other groups were cleaning parks, and the beach, while the ‘Servinators’, also known as the teenagers in the church went out all guns blazing and gave out free water to people in their cars passing by, cleaning the parks around the church and also helping in Pacifico de Villa doing surveys. Another highlight was 2 small groups clubbed together and bought over 70 packets of school equipment and stationary, something which costs a lot of money here in Peru, every year. 70 packets of school stationary
These packets were then given to Alfredo and the school at Ventanilla, which was an incredible blessing as many of these parents cannot afford to pay the monthly fee, never mind buy books and pens.

Alfredo and Violeta (leader of the 2 small groups) talking about the work in the school.