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New Commandment Men's Ministries
Using teams of men to serve widows, single moms, and fatherless children

Outdoor Projects Your Care Receiver may have Overlooked

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My team met together to serve our care receiver for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic last Saturday. We maintained our six feet of distance as we ate breakfast burritos out on her back deck. Then we did various outdoor projects for the rest of the time.

Our need to do outdoor projects to reduce exposure to each other during the pandemic got me thinking that some care receivers may run out of project ideas. If so, here are some outdoor projects she (or he) may have overlooked.

  • Clean out the garage
  • Organize garage
  • Wash and detail the car
  • Check car oil, fluids and tire pressure
  • Aerate, reseed, fertilize the lawn
  • Clean windows
  • Paint exterior sections of house
  • Replace washers on hose and mobile sprinklers
  • Check and repair sprinklers
  • Clean patio furniture
  • Repair/stain deck
  • Trim trees
  • Change oil on lawnmower
  • Sharpen lawnmower blade
  • Take large clutter to dump
  • Blow out AC compressor
  • Repair/replace fencing
  • Plant/Weed garden
  • Caulk foundation cracks
  • Correct negative grades around foundation

I think this should be enough to keep most teams busy for the rest of the year…and maybe next year! If you have more ideas for outdoor projects, leave them in the comment section below.

This post first appeared in NewCommandment.org.

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AUTHOR

Herb Reese
Herb Reese is an author, public speaker and President of New Commandment Men's Ministries. Herb has a B.A. in History from UCLA and a Th.M. in Pastoral Ministries from Dallas Theological Seminary. He has done post graduate work in The History of Ideas at University of Texas, Dallas and in Church Administration at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. After serving as a pastor over a period of twenty years, Herb founded New Commandment Men's Ministries, a ministry dedicated to helping churches recruit, train, organize and deploy teams of men who permanently adopt their widowed and single parents. Herb has served as President of New Commandment since 2003 and has helped 1,000 churches develop men's team ministries in all 50 states and eight foreign countries. Herb and his wife, Patti, live in Arvada, Colorado, and have three adult children.

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