Do you want to minister in the Triad Community?

BTW the yellow post’s are stuck to the top of the page, if you go to categories there are updated comments and information.

Would you like to connect with other Lifers to do ministry?

Maybe you have an idea that you think God is calling you to, but you need a partner or a helper to plan and carry out the idea?

Maybe your class is serving children in the community, but you really have a heart for the homeless in the Triad?

LIFEintheCommunity can help.

We want to help Life Community Church attenders see all the ministries in the community that Life Community is involved in.

You will see: The Ministry and it’s description, Ministry Contact information – people from our church who serve there (contact information available in mylife) so that you can plug right in and serve.

If you are interested MyLife (login on page) has the numbers and emails of the “Life Contacts” or you can call the office at 336-854-5433. When you call we can begin the first step to get you connected to this group through “MyLife” so that you can be included on calendared events and planning for upcoming ministry.

*If you or your small group are serving somewhere in the community but it is not listed here please forward the appropriate information to barry@life-community.com and I will add it.

**If you have an idea that is not listed but would like to see if there are others who would be willing to link up with you – please email me and we will add it.

We want to have an atmosphere of “Yes”.  If God has called you to minister to a group we want to encourage you to get involved or start it. Yes means that we will pray and encourage but it does not mean that we can fund it or staff it for you, but we can try to connect you with others here at “LIFE in the Community” and see where God takes it from there.

Ministry “Wish List”

It would be great if we at Life had:

Ministry to Chaplin the GSO or HP policemen (marriage, family etc.)

Connection with Big Brothers and Sisters for mentoring at risk kids

Habitat for Humanity or Project Rebuild (home building or repair)

Salvation Army

Teen Challenge

More Foreign Mission partnerships

Tutoring for Children or Jr/Sr High School Students

More Senior adult type ministry connections

Special needs Families

Operation shoebox

Samaritans Purse

High Point Jail Ministry

Guilford County Jail Ministry

Piedmont International Fellowship (ministry to foreign students in College in the Triad)

Triad Ladder of Hope (ministry to stop human trafficking – #2 crime in US and NC is #5 state)

Baptist Childrens Home in Thomasville

Tabitha Ministry (homeless or abused women)

Next Step Ministries (Emergency and Transitional Shelter for Abused women and Children)

Ministry at the Newcomer’s School (As refugee’s come to the Triad the begin public school here for one year)

Can you think of others?? Email me at barry@life-community.com

Quick Overview of where Life is in the Community

Ministries that Life Community is currently involved in: If you see what you want to get involved in use the categories on the right hand side to locate more details.

Starting Place: These are events or opportunities organized to be a 1 day type of commitment (not an on-going commitment) that you can plug right into to get involved at Life.

Children and Youth: Upward Sports, Child Evangelism Fellowship, Elizabeth’s Closet, Boys and Girls Club of High Point, Adopt a School (2 Schools), Turn to Christ Ministries.

Women: Elizabeth’s Closet, Room at the Inn, Greensboro Pregnancy Care Center, ZooKeepers Ministry, Apples of Gold.

Men: Disaster Relief Ministry, Winter Emergency Homeless Relief, Open Doors Ministry, The Gideon’s.

Elderly: Skeet Club Manor, High Point Place, Disaster Relief.

Poor or Homeless: Home to Home, Open Door Ministries, Urban Ministries, Winter Emergency Homeless Relief.

Global Ministries: World Relief of High Point, ZooKeepers Ministry, Hope for Brazil, The Gideon’s, Food for Ethiopia.

Urban Ministry Semi Annual Community Food Drive at Food Lion

2 times a year we join many local churches in staffing food drive’s at local grocery stores. We man the Food Lion at 118 Main St in Jamestown from 9 AM until 6 PM then we load it all up into a couple of trucks and deliver it to Urban Ministries on Lee Street in High Point. With a date in the spring and a date in the fall Urban raises more food for their ministry these 2 days than the 363 other days combined.

It is a very easy ministry to be a part of. The commitment is for 2 adults to be at the store for 2 hours at a time. Urban runs ads in the news paper telling the community of the opportunity – our volunteers stand at the doors passing out a small sheet of paper from urban with a list of needs – as customers go into the store they can purchase some of the items and drop them in the box as they leave.

The Spring date is Saturday, March 31, 2012

This Fall our date is Saturday, September 17. 2012

Opportunities:  Timeslots are 9-11AM, 11AM-1PM, 1-3PM, 3-5PM, 5-6PM plus load the trucks (and 2 to bring trucks at 5:30 and deliver the food to Urban). If you want to participate email barry@life-community.com to be scheduled for a timeslot.

Anti-Human Trafficking from World Relief

Hello to one and all,
World Relief has a new upcoming event which you may wish to become involved in…
On August 13 World Relief is sponsoring an Anti-Human Trafficking awareness fund raiser event at UNCG. The event is an Amazing Race which will test the wit and will of its participants, and provide funds to the Anti-Human Trafficking Department of World relief.
At World Relief we believe in Empowering the individual to stand for the most vulnerable. We would love to have you join us whether it be as a team participant out to win the grand prize, or a volunteer, helping behind the scenes.
North Carolina ranks as the 8th most likely state in the U.S. where human trafficking takes place. Come out and join us and Stand Against Human Trafficking.

Contact Alesia Rayner via email at ARRAYNER@TRIAD.RR.COM for more information.

Furniture Drive for Home to Home Ministries

April 8 – 25th of 2011 we will be having our 4th annual furniture drive for Home to Home Ministry.

This spring after you spring clean – instead of donating to an organization that you know little about, or one that will sell the item why not donate it to a strong Christian organization that gives away furniture to help: Refugee’s, those getting out of Jail, those who have experienced a disaster (fire or flooding) or the poor in the Triad. Tell your friends that it is one of the best 501c organizations – on behalf of the church – in the Triad.

We will have an 18 wheeler trailer (donated by southeastern freight) here in the parking lot; you can simply pull up and unload your good used furniture in it. If you come by the office we will give you a donation slip from Home to Home. Your donation will make a world of difference for a family here in the Triad.

Contact Persons: Barry Darnell, Mark McCutcheon

Special Needs Prom March 18, 2011

This will be our first year providing a special night for the special needs students in Guilford County High Schools or Carriers. We have invited the nearly 500 students and will have all the RSVP’s by March 4. Our theme for the year is “New York, New York – a Night on the Town” and we will include a free “Canal Street Experience” during the morning and afternoon on the 18th as well. It is not formal but we are calling it a “dress up event” so that anyone can feel comfortable from a jacket or dress all the way up to a prom dress and tux. Parents are welcome (even encouraged) to stay.

For the “Canal Street Experience” (beginning at 8AM by appointment and on a first come first served basis) Life Community will be partnering with community organizations to provide these services for free:

For the ladies: hair-doo, makeover, manicure, pedicure, corsage and even a “loaner dress” (as available).

For the guys: haircut, show shine, and boutonniere and even a “loaner jacket” (as available).

For both: We also want to partner with local (Hwy 68 or Wendover Restaurants) to get 50% vouchers for attendees to have that special meal with their families from 3PM until 6:30PM on the 18th. When they come back we will have them dropped off for a Limo ride. Limo Rides around the church circle (from the corner of the building by Barry’s office around the loop and pull up to the front door for a “Red Carpet Entry”

When our guest leave the limo we will have an awning with a red carpet, an announcement “Ladies and Gentleman may I present to you Mr. or Miss….” followed by paparazzi style photos. They will then come to the foyer decorated like Broadway where we will have NYC style street entertainers (mimes, clowns, music, dancing etc.) and then to the auditorium decorated like Radio City Music Hall; Central Park, City scape and Times Square – where we will have dancing, finger food, tables and photographers. A night on the town to remember that will conclude at

Opportunities for Ministry: We need Volunteers and or products for all the Canal Street Experience, dresses or jackets to be loaned out to participants, medical help on site, restaurants for the discounts, decorators, setup , tear down/clean up, photographers, entertainers, food servers (in central park) help getting Limo’s, smiling faces etc.

We are making a “Life Community and Community Partners” program to thank all those companies that donated to make this night so great for these families.

Contact Persons: Barry Darnell, Nakita Rayner, Elaine Grant

“God So Loves the World” Refugee Banquet

On Wednesday Night February 9 we will be hosting many refugee’s brought the the United States by World Relief. Last Year alone World Relief of High Point relocated over 600 refugee’s to the Triad area. This is our 4th Annual Refugee banquet.

Each of these families have been in the US for less than 6 months, they are trying to learn the language, get a job, and begin to meet the requirements placed on  them to stay here in the US. We want to come along side of them and let them know that God and Life Community loves them “no strings attached”.

We have asked them for 3 pressing family needs. Many list a computer, TV, microwave, furniture, bicycle, DVD player, or maybe washer/dryer. The TV or computer is a vital tool for learning the language, the bike for transportation, the washer/dryer helps them be able to stay at home and do laundry instead of taking the whole family to the laundry mat on public transportation etc.

We then partner each refugee family with 2 families from Life Community. We try to meet at least 2 of those 3 needs. The items do not need to be new or even purchased – we just ask that they be in good working order.

The way the night works ….

We pick the families up in buses and bring them to Life Community (the foyer  looks like an airport – our families holding signs with the refugee families names on them) we connect you with them, and then we will take a picture of the family so that we can give it to them at the end of the night – we go in the auditorium for the meal (we provide rice and chicken and ask classes to bring stir-fry veggies and seasoned roasted potatoes). Our families sit with their family at the table (we try to provide a sheet with 20-25 basic words/phrases in their languages). We then have a mission trip drama that we do that illustrates God’s story from creation to the cross. We then give them the picture in a frame and our Life Community Families take the refugee family back to the refugee families home and give them the gifts. It is such a blessing to the families and many of our families have chosen to stay connected all year long.

God is bringing the World to the Triad and we need to demonstrate His love to them the way it has been demonstrated to us by Christ.

Contact Persons:

Barry Darnell, Libbie McCutchen, Alisha Rayner

“The Greatest Gift”

Our Christmas gift to our community is to share the meaning of Christmas is that God came to earth. We have a free drive-thru nativity with 13 scene’s beginning with the Angel coming to Mary to tell her she would give birth to the Messiah – all the way to the Cross and Empty Tomb. We get calls and emails from families all of the triad that have shared “we begin our Christmas every year with the Drive-thru Live nativity at Life Community…”.
For this event to be successful we have a team that constructs the set during the week preceding the event, during the “Greatest Gift” we have about 45 animals (sheep, goats, donkey’s, cattle and Camels) and need between 50 -80 people each night to transform the parking lot into a first century experience. Then when we finish the week we have a tear down team that help’s us clean up and put things away.

Plan on being a part of this community event in December: “The Greatest Gift”

Contact Person’s:
Barry Darnell
Elaine Grant

Coats and Covers for Refugees and the local Homeless

From Thanksgiving until Christmas we are collecting used coats and/or covers for the needy and the cold in the Triad. Many refugee’s move here with no winter clothes for themselves or for their children. We also know that the population of homeless is growing in the triad. we want to be able to help with coats or covers.

Ladies are sewing Psalm 119:76
“May your unfailing love be my comfort” on a tag in the covers reminding the owner that God is our source of comfort. A collection box is in the foyer for you to drop any coat or cover into.

Contact Persons: Amber Turner; Alisha Rayner

Followup: We had our best collection ever November 20 – December 20 2010. We collected over 15 boxes of coats and covers – Thank you Life Community

Piedmont International Fellowship

The Piedmont International Fellowship is a Christian organization which seeks to provide opportunities for international college students to learn about and experience friendships with Christian Americans and other internationals in the Greater Greensboro area and by so doing, helps to develop peaceful world relations through these personal relationships.

Assistance is offered in helping students make adjustments to our U.S. culture with events planned throughout the year.  Students from all religions and ethnic backgrounds are welcome.

Ministry Contact: Audrey Womack today at awomack2@triad.rr.com

Ministry Website: www.GreensboroFriends.net

Life Contact: Exhorters Small Group – Royce and Sharon Madden

Opportunities and Needs:

The Gideons

What: The Gideons International so exciting! God guarantees that His Word will touch lives. When you provide Bibles or New Testaments through The Gideons, you can have confidence that your financial support will change lives—and the need for God’s Word is greater than ever:

• Nearly one half of the world’s population lives on less than $2 (U.S.) per day. For them, purchasing a Bible or New Testament is utterly impossible.
• There are 1.2 billion young people between the ages of 10 and 19 around the world, and most of them will never own a New Testament unless one is given to them.
• There are more than nine million people in prisons around the world. A gift of God’s Word may be the only way many of these prisoners will learn that God loves them and that they can be forgiven.

Website: The Gideons

Ministry Contact:

1015 Eastchester Dr
High Point, NC 27262-7643
(336) 882-2959

Life Contact: Disciples Small Group – Charles Miller; Life Legacy Group – Pastor Dean Mattern

Opportunities/Needs:

Hope for Brazil

What: Since 1998 Lyn Sloop has been leading team to Brazil – partnering with the local pastors Hope for Brazil has built 19 churches for the locals to worship and reach their communities from. Over these years Hope for Brazil has seen God bless and add to their ministry by giving opportunities to: Build the church, Children’s Bible Clubs, Basketball Ministry, Women’s Outreach, Clothing and Food distribution to the needy, and hopefully this year add a medical team to the trip.

Website: www.life-community.com

Ministry Contact: Lyn Sloop

Life Contact: Lyn and Vicki Sloop are active members at Life Community and attend the Exhorters Small Group

Opportunities/Needs: Team is traveling to Brazil Friday, July 15th and returning on Sunday July 31, 2011. Some team members may come late or leave early. Trip is limited to 35 participants. If you cannot go this trip but would lie to help sponsor someone else to go please contact barry@life-community.com