Describe your volunteer activities during the last 5 years

When it comes to church involvement, volunteer activities, services organizations, community involvement, etc., there is a deep and varied answer.

Before I describe those, however, let me ask you a question – are you asking about formal or informal involvement?

Here’s why.

God’s rather clear he wants your heart, not your religiosity, right (Isaiah 1:11-17, Amos 5:21-24, Mark 12:33, et al)?

I’ll list all the formal activities below, but I’d hope you think it important to understand how I started engaging a homeless guy who sleeps in his car on the route where I run in the morning or how I share the gospel when the opportunity presents itself. Further, there are a host of other ways I act in a pastoral capacity, exclusive of a “formal context.” That’s the informal in terms of volunteer activities.

On the SEMI-formal side of the equation, in my small group leadership I have, for instance, worked with them to plan a night to go make burritos and go feed homeless people.

Finally, in a formal sense I’ve served for a few years as preacher/teacher/facilitator with Union Gospel Mission’s LifeChange program in their mandatory chapel services, played on worship team for many years, co-led a church-based experimental a men’s group designed to pair guys new in their faith with mature believers, taught worldview classes, and on and on.