FOR TOPSAIL
FALL SERVE DAY
November 9th, 2024
Every year we have the opportunity to come together and serve our community. There are many projects where the entire family can participate. Simply select the project(s) you’d like to serve with and register.
Serve Day Schedule
8:00am – Registration @ Topsail High School Parking lot
8:30am – Serve Day Rally
8:45am – Volunteers meet with Team Leaders
9:00am – Deploy to project sites
Embrace Grace
Specific Embrace Grace volunteers will be hosting a baby shower for an Embrace Grace Brave Girl. They will organize the shower and celebrate with the expectant mother!
(This project is for people 16+)
Sea Turtle Center
We have the amazing opportunity to partner with our local Sea Turtle Center to help spruce up the landscaping around their facility. This center hosts people from all over the state who come to learn more about the sea turtles in our area.
(not for kids)
Freezer Meals for Foster Care Families
This group has the opportunity to serve the foster care community in our area. These families give so much to the children in the foster care system and now we have the opportunity to give back to them in a small way. Join this team that will help prepare and deliver freezer meals to a few families.
Baked Goods for First Responders
Our first responders do so much to take care of the people in our community and we want to show them honor and a little bit of care. This group will get together to bake some homemade treats, write cards, draw pictures, and hand-deliver these to a few of our first responder facilities.
(kid friendly).
Surf City Beach Clean Up
We love our beaches, and the opportunity to clean them up after another busy summer season. This group will head down to Surf City to pick up trash and make sure we keep our beaches looking nice.
(kid friendly)
Dixon Middle School
One of the most important local partnerships we have is with our schools. This group will serve at Dixon Middle School to help sand and paint some of the outdoor furniture they have, making it look nice for the students and faculty to use.
Woodberry Wellness Bingo & Ice Cream
Who doesn’t love bingo and ice cream with the residents at Woodberry Wellness. Come help us host a fun morning to play games and show these residents we love them.
Woodberry Wellness Holiday Craft
With the holidays just around the corner we are excited to do some awesome crafts with the residents at Woodberry Wellness. Join us and let your creativity out a little bit.
Laundry with Love
Hop on over to the Holly Ridge Laundromat to bless the customers at their facility! If you enjoy having a conversation with people, this is the place for you.
Arbor Landing Holiday Craft
With the holidays just around the corner we are excited to do some awesome crafts with the residents at Arbor Landing. Join us and let your creativity out a little bit.
Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes
Come help us shop for and pack shoeboxes that will be sent to children all over the world. This group will have the opportunity to pack and pray over each item that a child will receive this Christmas.
(kid friendly)
Arbor Landing Bingo & Ice Cream
Who doesn’t love bingo and ice cream with the residents at Arbor Landing. Come help us host a fun morning to play games and show these residents we love them.
Door to Door Ministry
We have identified a neighborhood that this group will go to and share the love of Jesus. This group will focus on praying for each family, handing out groceries as necessary, and sharing the gospel.
Safe Haven
One of our partnerships is with Safe Haven. This serve day they have asked if we can assist in building a changing room in their thrift store. This will be a small team of skilled laborers who can work together to build a changing room.
Salvation Army
For this group, we are partnering with the Salvation Army to assist with yard work around the facility as well as organizing donations they have received.
Topsail Schools Clean Up
This group will be serving Topsail High School, Topsail Middle School, and Topsail Annandale Elementary School by walking the three campuses to pick up any trash and debris.
Topsail Senior Center
Our friends over at Topsail Senior Center have been having some issues with their trash getting scattered throughout the woods by different woodland critters. This team must be prepared to pick up trash while being on the lookout for any dangerous or harmful animals or plants.
NC Food Bank
The food pantries in our area are all supported by the NC Food Bank located in Wilmington, NC. This serve day we have the opportunity to serve with the Food Bank by helping to organize produce and donations.
Habitat for Humanity
We’ve partnered with Habitat for Humanity at our past couple serve days and I’m excited we get to again this November. This team will be working on a home in our area by mainly focusing on indoor painting.
(not for kids)
Prayer Team South
This Serve Day we are putting together a couple teams to pray over our community. This specific group will focus on the southern side of Hampstead to pray over neighborhoods, businesses, event spaces, etc.
Prayer Team North
This Serve Day we are putting together a couple teams to pray over our community. This specific group will focus on the northern side of Hampstead to pray over neighborhoods, businesses, event spaces, etc.
Share the Table
For those of you that don’t know, our local partner Share the Table recently moved into their new building! It’s an amazing facility that will serve thousands of people in our community each year. This group will assist with some landscaping needs around the new facility.
Topsail Annandale Elementary School
We will be partnering with Topsail Annandale to assist with a few different projects around the school, including painting and landscaping improvements.
North Topsail Elementary School
We are partnering with North Topsail Elementary School to assist with a few projects around their facility, including pressure washing, laying new rock, and landscaping.
Bless a Neighbor – Topsail Greens
This group has an awesome opportunity to serve a specific family in need in our community. We will be working to improve or completely replace the front steps at a home. This will be a small team of skilled laborers who can assist with constructing stairs.
Topsail High School – Entrance
One of our main local partnerships is with Topsail High School. This serve day we will be serving the high school in a few different ways, but one of those is the spruce up the front entrance of the school. This group will work on the landscaping and make sure everything looks nice to welcome families and students to the school.
Topsail High School – Fence Line
One of our main local partnerships is with Topsail High School. This serve day we will be serving the high school in a few different ways, but one of those is cleaning up the fence line. This team will walk the fence line around the building and do a little bit of a face lift. Weed eat, cut back shrubs, clean up trash or debris, really make sure the fence line looks good.
Kiwanis Park
This group is partnering up with Pender County and the team out at Kiwanis Park to plant some trees and spruce up an area that so many in our community use on a weekly basis.
Homemade Ornaments
This group will be making homemade ornaments together and then will be hand delivering them to the residents in Coastal Plantations.
(kid friendly)
Topsail Middle School
We are partnering with Topsail Middle School to help with a few painting projects. We’ll be focusing on the four square courts in the parking lot as well as a few exterior doors.
South Topsail Elementary School (WEDNESDAY OPTION)
Every year one of our community groups partners with South Topsail Elementary to host a Bingo Night. This year it falls just two days before our Fall Serve Day! If you are available on Thursday evening, November 13th from 5-7pm and would like to play some bingo with the teachers and families of the school, then this is the project for you!
Surf City Community Center
We have the opportunity to serve one of our local community centers by doing some light landscaping as well as a trash sweep around the facilities. Let’s help our community center look fresh and clean.
Reno Property Clean Up
This group will spend some time out at our Renovation Church property cleaning up a few areas. Focusing on the flower beds, edging the house, and cleaning up the prayer trails.
Surf City Elementary School
This group will be assisting Surf City Elementary by painting a 4-square board in the courtyard and installing two tetherball poles.
Dixon High School
We have the opportunity to bless Dixon High School by helping to paint some of their outdoor picnic tables the students use for lunch. Come join us make these tables look fresh and clean.
Bless a Neighbor – Veteran
This group will be serving a retired veteran that lives in our community and is in need of some help with landscaping and pressure washing.