Click in the box next to every idea that interests you:

Taking food to the home-bound
Taking Holy Communion to the home-bound
Visiting people in the hospital
Visiting people in prison or a juvenile detention center
Visiting people in a nursing home
Making gifts or arranging bouquets for patients
Caring for young children
Tutoring school children
Befriending a teenager like a big brother or sister
Listening to your neighbor's problems
Providing transportation to doctors or shopping
Picking up groceries
Collecting goods for a food pantry
Working in a soup kitchen
Providing money to a ministry that houses the homeless
Serving in a food or clothing center for the needy
Helping in a shelter for battered women
Serving as a hospice volunteer for the terminally ill
Taking in a foster child
Caring for AIDS victims
Helping at church retreats or workshops
Cooking or baking for functions at church, school, Scouts, etc.
Doing yard work or housework for the disabled
Opening your home to an unmarried pregnant girl
Opening your home to a foreign exchange student or visitor
Assisting refugee families attempting to adjust to our country
Coaching or assisting in youth sports games
Directing or helping at school plays
Assisting with Scouting groups
Helping provide enrichment programs for single adults
Helping engaged couples prepare for a lasting marriage
Befriending a newly married couple to teach by example
Organizing or helping in a marriage enrichment program
Leading a divorced-separated group toward healing and new growth
Helping parents solve parenting problems
Stuffing envelopes for a non-profit organization's mailings
Organizing fund-raisers for the church or other worthy cause
Finding major donors for fund-raisers
Assisting during the fund-raisers
Joining boycotts to influence television programming
Joining a door-to-door evangelization team
Helping women find alternatives to abortion
Helping women recover from the trauma of past abortions
Helping people adopt children from foreign countries
Helping parents of Religious Education students feel welcomed by the Church
Babysitting for parents who attend spiritual enrichment programs
Helping the unemployed improve job-search skills
Influencing your child's school by serving on the PTA
Influencing the local school board by attending meetings
Influencing government by writing letters, making phone calls or attending meetings
Helping Pro-Life candidates get elected to office
Praying regularly for pastors and other clergy
Praying regularly for the people and needs of your church
Being part of a prayer phone chain
Sending get well cards to sick church members
Helping to serve Holy Communion during church worship
Reading the Scriptures during the worship service
Serving as usher or greeter in your church
Singing in the church choir
Playing a musical instrument during worship or programs
Assisting the children acolytes or altar servers
Organizing or serving coffee fellowship after worship or meetings
Praying on a healing team
Helping new parents prepare for their baby's Baptism
Helping people grieve and heal from tragic losses
Planning or helping at special children's services or retreats
Sharing your faith with new candidates for church membership
Organizing or helping Vacation Bible School
Sharing your faith in a church youth group
Sharing your faith as a Religious Education teacher
Opening your home to a Bible study or faith-sharing group
Answering calls on a telephone hot-line
Helping publicize events you would like to see promoted
Assisting in the church or town library
Influencing which books are purchased for a library
Video-taping or photographing special events
Creating artwork or crafts for church, nursing homes, etc.
Sewing Baptismal garments
Sewing clergy garments
Funding a needy child through sponsorship programs
Helping to fund a missionary or mission organization
Organizing collections for victims of natural disasters
Cleaning garbage from local natural areas
Doing articles or artwork for church or school newsletters
Performing clerical duties for a non-profit organization
Collecting funds for a child who has huge medical bills
Organizing a children's play group to give mothers a break
"Adopting" a grandmother or grandfather who has no nearby family
Offering your special skills (eg. carpentry, computers, cleaning, plumbing, etc.)
      to church or other non-profit organization

Now, click on the button (below). This will give you a report on the areas of ministry that interest you.

Print the report immediately. Once you move on from that page, you will lose the information permanently, so be sure to save the report by printing it. Then, click on the link at the bottom of the report to find out what to do next in your discernment process.