Supporting the Community
At the OC Tabernacle we were rather busy this weekend. The Ocean City Music Pier (a large concert venue on the Boardwalk) is undergoing structural renovations, so all their events for the month of April have been moved to our facility. This weekend it was a local teen scholarship pageant. While not an event we would typically host, it was our chance to help out the community. Since the Tabernacle is not a church, we tend to host a higher number of community events, but every church can benefit from opening it’s doors to the community, whether by hosting a community dinner, blood drive, or even voting.
Some ways that helping the community helps the church:
- Building Relationships with the Community. Community events at your church bring new people into your building, many of them people who would never set foot in a church. Ministering to these people needs to happen one step at a time, and this is an important first step.
- Building Relationship with the City. At the Tabernacle, we help out the city in many ways, from hosting events in our sanctuary to holding the city-wide yard sales on our grounds. Through these events, we are helping the city out. In turn, the city has been very helpful promoting our events and supporting our ministry. We are currently halfway through our building project, and I cannot imagine how difficult it would have been without the support of the city.
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