The road so far...

Singles Serving Singles (S3 for short) began last December as a way to make the idea of serving people local and personal. As a member of North Point Community Church, I've been exposed to the "Be Rich" campaign every year, which is great, they partner with many community organizations.

But I see needs among my single friends and I see others in my circle of friends who have the resources to meet those needs.

So I created a Facebook group originally called "Be Rich... to your friends in need." This was my original post several months ago:

"North Point's Be Rich campaign is over, but I feel that we should keep this going and "charity begins at home", with those closest to us: our family and friends in need. (Confession: this is an idea that a friend Annette came up with a year or 2 ago).
This is consistent with the pattern in Christ's Great Commission in Acts 1:8 "you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." This is reinforced in ITim 5:8 "But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever."
So before we help strangers in need (and we should), let's look closer to home and help our friends in need. We need to compile a list of friends who are unemployed, employed but struggling financially, have specific material needs and are fighting illness. We can pool our resources, share information, provide job leads, cash, used furniture, used cars, cheap or free housing, food and more. We could even do fundraisers. We need people with ideas, connections, financial and organizational skills, and yes, money and material resources. So invite friends to join, let us know who's in need, and volunteer time and resources to help.

We also need to pray that this idea will become reality and actually help the people who are in need: meet their material needs and also build them up spiritually.

I want this project to spread to all the ministries that we are part of: Fusion, SPF, Echo, Weekend List, SingleLife and others. The more intelligent, compassionate people we have involved, the greater impact we can have. I'm good with ideas and promotion, I'm also good with task level details, but I need to fill the gap in organization and administration. Since this may involve funudraising and money, we need financial accountability, too."

Since then the Facebook group has grown to 150 members. S3 became a part of SingleLife Ministries, Inc. On January 29 we had our first official project: 5 of us helped a single lady move from Alpharetta to Cumming. S3 is now on Twitter, and of course, this blog.


My hope for the future is that this initiative will not just meet people's material needs, but will create a heart for service in many.