Victory Church in Moose Jaw has laid down a challenge to themselves and our city … The “Love Army Challenge.”
This challenge included lots of opportunities and ideas to “do good” throughout the summer. The church started with handing out cold water at Sidewalk Days, and to their own surprise, it went so well that they gave away over 10,000 bottles of cold water.
“We had hot weather and a team of over 100 volunteers, so we gave away way more water than we could have possibly predicted. We kept having to go back to the store to buy more water to hand out," says pastor Dan Godard.
"It was a lot of fun and brought smiles to hundreds of people as they enjoyed sidewalk days this year. What a great way to kick off our love army challenge."
Since then, they have engaged in a “love local” campaign, cleaning up local parks, a free Family Fun Carnival and BBQ and more. Their latest project partnered with the Salvation Army program to “fill a backpack” for students in need as they head back to school. In all, over 90 backpacks were provided by this team effort.
Now Victory church is asking us to carry it on.
“We are inviting the whole city to get involved. Go to lovearmychallenge.com and find ways you can serve in our city. If we all do unignorably good things, we will make our communities better places to live," says Godard.
"It’s really about showing love with our actions. We are inviting the people of our city to be unignorably good. We can make a difference together.”
