Metro Community Outreach

Serve at an Outreach

Get involved in a multi-church outreach sponsored by MCO or another similar multi-church ministry. Simply serving at a multi-church outreach will be an invaluable experience and it will give you first hand knowledge of how God is drawing life-minded churches together to reach their communities and beyond. As you are serving, try different kinds of serving tasks until you find something that you could become passionate about. The idea is to get involved in serving somewhere. You could start by just doing OA’s in your community. Evangelism isn’t ordinary enough. To make an “Ordinary Attempt” is to make evangelism part of our daily lives through simple, one-on-one relational acts of kindness (Matt 5:16). Doing small things with great love changes people! For example, do an OA by simply paying more attention to the people in your everyday life. Be unusually interested in them and see how they respond. Or, pray for people behind their back and when the time is right, tell them! There are hundreds of creative OA’s that you can that are also simple, fun and easy to do.

Be a Catalyst

Take things beyond serving to more of a leadership role. Become a catalyst for outreach in your own church or ministry. This means that you become the main proponent of evangelism and outreach. You become a key banner carrier for reaching people in your community.

Start by sharing personal stories with others about your own outreach experiences. Stories are contagious and often connect with people. Often, churches that are more inward focused have very few people with current stories of outreach happening. So, become a catalyst to get others in your church involved in participating in outreach. One of the goals of MCO has been to create outreach venues that have everything ready to go. The only thing that is needed is people from the local churches to plug in and serve. Being a catalyst for outreach to happen more in your church is rewarding. You will experience God working through you to stir others to do what God has been nudging them to do: love people!

Serve on a MCO Team

As a catalyst in your church for outreach or if you simply have a heart and passion to reach others, realize that it can become lonely! You may not experience others in your church or ministry who actually share your passion. Or, you may realize that it will take time to help others gain more of a heart for outreach.

But, you can join a team of other people who share your heart and passion by being on an MCO Team. An MCO Team is made up of people who have demonstrated that they have a heart to reach out to people without Christ. An MCO Team will prayerfully find a community that they want to reach out to. Then, the team will begin to meet for just prayer and connecting. As people on the team begin to gel with each other, planning and preparation will take place to help them get ready to being outreaching in their own community area.

Most MCO Teams have been made up of people who are the catalysts or key spokes people for outreach in their churches. MCO Teams have been highly effective at doing evangelism because everyone is highly motivated and many are even gifted in evangelism.

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