Park Service Day

In addition to the 12 ministries that we serve at each week, each year Park Community Church mobilizes its congregation to serve the city on a day we call Park Service Day. We gather in the early morning for worship and instructions, then more than 600 people fanned out last year to 40 building / cleanup sites in the city for a day of “serving our neighbors” and “serving the city”.
Park Service Day is a chance for Parkers to invest in the wellness of this great city – an opportunity to turn our words into actions. Come with old friends and make new friends as we go out across Chicago to share Christ’s love in tangible ways. Hundreds of volunteers will be painting, gardening, building, and cleaning – lending a helping hand to our community. We invite everyone to join us and be blessed by deepened friendships, surprised by different neighborhoods, and warmed by good old-fashioned hard work.

This year Park Service Day is on Saturday, October 28, 2006.  We are expecting more than 700 volunteers who will be painting, gardening, building, and cleaning – lending a helping hand to our community. This is a fantastic opportunity to invite your friends and co-workers to help renew the city.
Why do we do this? In Jeremiah 29, God’s people were and are encouraged to build homes, to plant gardens, to establish families, to settle down and stay in the city and as well to seek and pray for the peace and prosperity of the city. Park is committed to encouraging and enabling people stay in the city, to establishing and redeeming Christian marriages and families within the city, being role models to our neighbors, and passing on the Gospel to future generations —thus impacting the city of Chicago: one life, one family, one block and one neighborhood at a time.

As we are individually transformed, our new lives in Christ will touch and reach our communities: family, friends, neighbors, coworkers and others within our spheres of influence. “When the righteous prosper, the city rejoices –Through the blessing of the upright, a city is exalted” (Proverbs 11:10-11).

At Park, we want to be the kind of church that causes the City of Chicago to rejoice. So we will use our time, gifts and resources to meet the needs of others in our community and will also partner with ministries that are making an impact in the city. Park Service Day is one of those opportunities to put feet to our faith — please join us!