Wednesday evenings — 6-8:30pm
Open drop off times for donations at Schaeffers’ garage (2401 Saddlewood Ct., Cedar Hill, TX)
Volunteers needed to pick up items from Bridges Safehouse & bring to Schaeffers’ garage

Sunday mornings
Bring your yard sale donations to church.

Saturday, April 17th & Saturday, May 1st —- Large item pick-ups in the community
Volunteers needed to help pick-up larger items from homes. If you have a truck & willing to drive & use it for pick-ups, this would be great too!
7:00 am – 11:00 am
12:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Tagging & Pricing Get-Togethers — Monday, May 3rd & Wednesday, May 5th (6pm-8:30pm)
Truck & Trailer Loading —– Friday, May 7th (6pm-9/10ish)

Yard Sale Day!!! — Saturday, May 8th (4:30am-7ish – unloading/set-up) & (7am-3pm—Sale!)

Please sign-up on the clipboards at church, or contact Joe or Tracy Schaeffer at 972-299-9835 or joschka@flash.net or tschaeffer@flash.net to let them know when you can help.

The next City Impact Team meeting will take place on October 8th at 7:30pm at the church.

Click here to download LLC City Impact Team Minutes from 2/5/09

Click here to download LLC City Impact Team Minutes from 1/22/09

Actions:
Tracie S. is going to categorize the city impact list and make leaders that will be the head of their ‘skill” and will be called as needed. The City Impact Team is meeting this Thursday @ 7:15 at the church.
Women’s Ministry to the nursing home this year. Donna will inform the music team on dates for musical assistance.
Debbie Miller offered to the coordinator for Bridges Safehouse
Representative from the DBU ministry is coming on the 25th to tell us about their ministry to the Chinese students..

Suggested Ideas and other things to do.
“Serve a quarter” outside the church
Paul to announce to the church about the new call system with city impact.

Click here to download LLC City Impact Team Minutes From 8/21/08

Click here to download LLC City Impact Team Minutes From 7/24/08

For further information on this ministry, check out this blog entry from GoodManson.com

(Updated with minutes from the Aug 21st Meeting, and more information on the City Impact Team)

Lakeview Community Church has started a new ministry called City Impact.

Purpose of City Impact: “Take ourselves out of the church & into the community as a visible demonstration of God’s redemptive work.”

Mission of City Impact: To engage in mercy ministries and meet specific community needs (car maintenance, yard maintenance, household help, after school child care, Christmas presents, back to school supplies, etc.)

Future vision of City Impact: We believe churches must not just engage in mercy ministries, but partner together to represent the fullness of God’s Kingdom in our collective witness to the world.

Jesus said to do good deeds to glorify God. We dare not keep our church secluded and hidden (Matthew 5:13-16.).

While the Missions Committee works to spread the good news of Jesus the Messiah worldwide, the City Impact Team aims to minister locally, to the neighbors of the church. More specifically, to serve the communities of Cedar Hill that has no other church presence, such as Kingswood and KB Homes. When possible, the Team also seeks to serve the rest of Cedar Hill and neighboring cities.

Ultimately, the Team looks to renew the community where it is in decay, and develop the community where it needs to be nurtured (Isaiah 58:6-12).

The ministries the Team oversees are:

1. Project Cedar Hill. The project, modeled after Project Duncanville, shows Gods’ love by good works and by testimony. It seeks to serve: the widow, the single parent, the fatherless, and the disabled, filling whatever needs we are able.
2. Financial Assistance. The church often gets calls from strangers for assistance with bills. The Team evaluates the requests and provides funds when the call represents a genuine need, when funds are available. It also advises where government help and other aid might be available. We wish to “give to all who ask” (see Luke 6:30), but we wish to do so with wisdom.
3. Holiday Helpers. The church has bought Thanksgiving turkeys for distribution in the past, and we may do so again in the future.
4. Free Yard Sale. Both Southwest Harvest and the Duncanville Church of Christ on Danieldale have hosted yard sales in which all items are free to take.

Other ministries could include paroled prisoners, help with the local food bank, and others.

The team seeks to network with other churches, community leaders, nonprofit organizations, and other organizations when possible.

Click here to download LLC City Impact Team Minutes From 7/24/08

For further information on this ministry, check out this blog entry from GoodManson.com

I’ve called & left messages or spoke with most of our team leaders. So far 4 cannot attend because of other commitments.

On the yard sale:

Moving & muscle help:
We’re at a point where we need to organize a system for picking up large items from people who want to give but are unable to physically get the items to us. My thought is that Saturdays may be the most available day for most volunteers. Proposed dates for pick-ups: Sat, March 21st ; Sat, April 4th ; &/or Sat., April 18th (last call). In addition, it may be helpful to have shifts for each of these dates so we don’t wear out our teams. Shifts could be 7am-11am ; 12pm – 4pm ; 4pm – 8pm. Other volunteeer help needed is on sale day Sat April 25th: very early Saturday morning 4-4:30am – 6:30am-7am — loading trucks & trailers to take the stuff to the sale & then unload it /set up for sale. It may also make things easier on the day of the sale if we have a trailer loading party the Friday night before the sale (we’ll BBQ) say 5pm-9pm or so. That could be fun too!
*** Note: We may have access to an open bed trailer that will connect to our jeep or a pick-up truck. Also, I will check w/U-Haul to see how much it costs to rent a trailer or truck for a day.

Obtaining donations:
Ladies at Bridges have already asked how to donate things for the sale. Bridges does not have enough space to store items for the sale at this point. They are in fact in need of a outside storage room if you know anyone who wishes to donate one.

For larger items—
I put together a form that will help with larger donations that need to be picked up from the community, from our church members, from Bridges volunteers/friends, etc who cannot physically move the items but do wish to donate. See attachment. I think we need to decide on our dates relatively quickly to allow time to get forms out, returned, & organize pick-up day schedule based upon location of residences.
For smaller items—
As far as smaller items, our church members & their friends/families/etc can go ahead & begin bringing smaller items (clothes, household, etc) to church with them on Sundays. Joe & Tracy can bring home from church to put in garage. People from church can also coordinate with Joe or Tracy on stopping by whenever to drop something off. With regard to Bridges small items, on the days we do pick-ups we can have someone at the house for drop-offs during a certain time frame. I’ll also coordinate with Janet on days/times she or Bridges people can drop-off items.
Confirming/reminder calls:
What do you guys think about asking one of our City Impact teams (maybe reading & tutoring — or — office/financial ) if they would be interested in helping by making phone calls? It may be a helpful time-saver to give a confirmation or reminder call the day/night before pick-ups.

Tagging & pricing get-together(s):
With the ladies retreat being the weekend prior to the sale, my thought is that ladies will want to be home on Sunday for the day after church. For tagging & pricing, so we aren’t waiting until the last minute, Monday April 20th &/or Tuesday April 21st nights say 5/6pm-9/10pm may be good for groups to come over to arrange/group the clothing & items, price & tag the items, make price charts for the money-takers, etc. We could do pizza or a pot-luck where everyone brings a dish or just sandwiches & chips.

Okay– I think that’s enough for tonight. ** When you have a moment, please do let me know your thoughts/ideas.

Brian could you look at your calendar to see if the dates I mentioned above for moving/muscle help with pick-ups work for you? If not, are there other dates that work for you? Also, could you please find out how many trucks/trailers we may able to use for moving time? We can use my jeep & I think I’ll be able to borrow one trailer (10-12 ft ).

Tracy Schaeffer
214-724-5095
tschaeffer@flash.net