7 Ways to Encourage Your People

by | May 28, 2020 | Encouragement, Godly Relationships, Hospitality, Prayer, Tips for Encouraging Others

As I said in in the previous post, “the key to growing and maintaining a successful community is encouragement.” Here are several ideas for encouraging your people:

“In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus.”

Ephesians 2:5

Encouragement of Words

  • Send notes of encouragement.
  • Send a text or message of a verse that speaks to you.
  • Call to say, “I am thinking of you.”

 

Encouragement of Hospitality

  • Invite someone over for coffee, lunch, or just a visit.
  • Pack a picnic lunch or snack and deliver it to eat on a friend’s porch.
  • Plan a “tea” or coffee party and invite several friends to join you.

 

Encouragement of Prayer

  • Choose several people in your circle to add to your prayer strategy.
  • Send a message to ask how you can specifically pray for someone.
  • Invite a few people in your circle to meet together for prayer.

 

Encouragement of Giving

  • Purchase a gift card to send to someone who needs a special treat.
  • Make a batch of homemade cookies or a loaf of bread and deliver to a friend. Don’t forget to include a note!
  • Plant a set of teacups with herbs and tie a verse to the handle of each.

 

Encouragement in Action

  • Offer to help with a big project – planting, painting, packing to move.
  • Pick up coffee or bagels and deliver to a friend who is swamped with work.
  • Babysit for a mom so she can have an afternoon of relaxing fun.

 

Encouragement of Presence

  • Sit with a friend who is waiting – for doctor’s results, for a job opportunity, for a baby or a surgery.
  • Offer to drive around with a coworker or neighbor who has just moved to the area.
  • Offer to shop with a mom of young kids – entertain the little one while she runs errands.

 

Encouragement of Experience

  • Offer to take a younger woman to lunch and ask her about her dreams. Share a little of your story with her.
  • Join a group of women at church – invite a woman from a different generation to join you.
  • Invite some friends to join you in your hobby. Gather the supplies and be ready to teach them. Send them home with a kit and something finished.