PARTNER GUIDE STEPS TO GETTING STARTED WITH GO BEYOND

PARTNER GUIDE

ABOUT What is Go Beyond and the Week of Service? Who is Going Beyond? When is the Week of Service? How can I Go Beyond? PARTNER Step 1 Commit Step 2 Plan Step 3 Promote Step 4 Serve Step 5 Celebrate RESOURCES Promotion Fundraising Gear Task Ideas Organizations Served TABLE OF CONTENTS 3

ABOUT

WHAT IS GO BEYOND AND THE WEEK OF SERVICE? Go Beyond is a church-led initiative to encourage, organize, and mobilize people to better our community through acts of service. Go Beyond: A Week of Service is the designated week when all Go Beyond partners come together to serve. WHO IS GOING BEYOND? Individuals & Families are Participating Planning and joining in on hundreds of projects Churches & Organizations are Partnering Uniting with Go Beyond to plan and complete community projects Businesses are Sponsoring as Patrons Investing in the community by promoting and funding projects WHEN IS THE WEEK OF SERVICE? Go Beyond: A Week of Service is May 13-21 this year. 5

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COMMIT STEP 1: COMMIT The first step to partnering with Go Beyond is to simply commit to Go Beyond. Read the UNITY & CONVICTIONS STATEMENT included or online at gobeyondus.com/unity. Complete the COMMITMENT FORM included or online at gobeyondus.com/commit. This is important so that we can communicate with you, give you updates, give you access to promotional materials, and collect stories from you about how God is working through your Go Beyond efforts. Businesses and individuals are not required to complete the Commitment Form. 7

PLAN STEP 2: PLAN The next step is to start planning your Go Beyond projects. Here are some tips to help you plan. PLAN YOUR OWN EVENT OR COLLABORATE Contact a Go Beyond Coach in your area by calling 717.393.9600 or emailing info@gobeyondus.com. DEVELOP A PLANNING TEAM Appoint a Go Beyond Point Person. Fill your team with people who have a passion to serve and have the ability to lead a project. Develop a Vision and Prayer Force DEFINE YOUR TASK(S) Contact potential project opportunities (e.g., neighbors, non-profits, local police or fire, local schools, etc.) Join a community-wide task at gobeyondus.com/serve. DETERMINE LOGISTICS Work with your Task Leader(s) to determine people, resources, materials, money needed for each task, etc. 8

PROMOTE STEP 3: PROMOTE COMMUNICATE THE CAUSE Once you have a plan, it is important to promote Go Beyond and your specific projects. Here are a few ideas: DIGITAL PRINT GEAR Email Posters Shirts Website Postcards Hats Announcements Banners Wristbands Social Media Bulletins Hoodies Videos Radio Newsletters Flyers Signs Press Releases Visit gobeyondus.com/promo to download various media graphics. 10

CALL FOR COMMITMENT The goal of promotion is to see people make a commitment to serve. Some ways that you can encourage people to serve, give, lead, promote, network, and fundraise are: Pledge Cards Sign-Up Tables Utilizing Small Groups, Ministry Teams, or Youth Groups Social Media 11

SERVE STEP 4: SERVE After all the planning and promoting, it s finally time to serve. It s important that you prepare your people to serve by communicating logistical instructions, dates, times, locations, materials needed, what to wear, etc. RECAST THE VISION WEAR GO BEYOND GEAR GO BEYOND AND SERVE Visit gobeyondus.com/store to order Go Beyond gear or for bulk or custom orders, contact Casey Kriebel, Cornerstone Business Graphics 484.256.5265 or casey@cbizgraphics.com. 12

CELEBRATE STEP 5: CELEBRATE Once we ve served, it's important to celebrate all the Lord has done. Help us capture our collective impact by: TAKING PHOTOS AND VIDEOS DURING THE WEEK OF GO BEYOND. You can upload your photos and videos at gobeyondus.com/celebrate. GATHERING TESTIMONIES and emailing them to stories@gobeyondus.com by the end of the Week of Service. Capturing the following information and completing the CELEBRATION FORM online at gobeyondus.com/celebrate. Number of tasks completed Number of people who served Number of hours served One major highlight from the week 13

RESOURCES

Discuss with the group a time when you were served or blessed beyond your expectations. How did it make you feel to have someone go beyond for you? PROMOTION Visit gobeyondus.com/promo to download various media graphics. BEYOND MAXIMUM IMPACT A Small Group Devotional What are your expectations? Whether unreasonably high, embarrassingly low, or somewhere in between, we all have expectations for others and ourselves. Think about your most recent experience in a restaurant. If the server met your expectation you might say, Meh, it was fine. If they missed your expectation, perhaps your tip spoke toward your measure of frustration. However, if you had the seemingly rare privilege of being served beyond your expectation, you were more than likely floored but why? Why does someone going the extra mile surprise us so? It s because going beyond is not the norm! After all, if it was normal we couldn t call it going beyond. Recently, I had an incredible experience with a service technician who worked on my home furnace. He was polite, competent, and even considerate enough to wear goofy looking booties over his already clean boots. He greeted me with a smile, asked for permission to enter my home, and then walked me through the goals for his visit. After welcoming any questions he went quietly and diligently about his work. Then, just before he left he asked, Are you satisfied with my visit and is there anything I can do to meet or exceed your expectations before I leave? All I could say was, Wait... what?! You see, this guy was able to go beyond and leave me speechless because he took the time to ask how he could do so. He had a go beyond attitude and a go beyond work ethic which left a go beyond impression that motivated me to go beyond myself. How about you? What about us? Are we ready to do what it takes to go beyond? SHARE

FUNDRAISING Our goal is to rally people to serve, but sometimes serving costs money. Your donation will help meet needs in our community, assist organizations being served, and provide supplies for our community-wide serving projects like last-resort construction projects, meal-packing for the hungry around the world, mobilizing thousands of people to clean our cities, or collecting food for those in need in our local area. Each year is costs tens of thousands of dollars to make these community-wide projects happen. The more you give, the more good we can do together. Help us Go Beyond by doing one or more of the following: GIVE ONLINE at gobeyondus.com/givenow TEXT-TO-GIVE Visit gobeyondus.com/give to learn how to Text-to-Give. SEND A DONATION Make check payable to Go Beyond LLC and mail it to 1102 Millersville Pike, Lancaster, PA 17603 BUY GO BEYOND GEAR Visit gobeyondus.com/store. All the profits go to support Go Beyond. HELP FUNDRAISE Visit gobeyondus.com/fundraise for information on free tools available and ways to help raise money. 16

GEAR Show your excitement and create unity by gearing up with Go Beyond. Visit gobeyondus.com/store to order Go Beyond gear or for bulk or custom orders, contact Casey Kriebel, Cornerstone Business Graphics at 484.256.5265 or casey@cbizgraphics.com.

TASK IDEAS Here is a list of ideas for organizing your own task(s), as well as organizations we ve served in previous years. Help an elderly or disabled person in the community Help a neighbor in need Clean up a neighborhood Free car wash advertise in advance to help with turnout Free interior car cleaning advertise in advance to help with turnout Wash car windows at shopping center or gas station Wash police cars Help load groceries Serve free coffee Host a block party Deliver the Sunday newspaper door to door Weeding Mowing lawns Planting annuals Window washing Home repair Provide special activity/food/etc. at a local shelter Organize and plan a service at a nursing home Street Clean Up Random Acts of Kindness Serve Police & Fire Departments 18

ORGANIZATIONS SERVED American Red Cross Blood Drive Water Street Mission Serving Meals, Sorting Donations Global Aid Network (GAiN) Meal Packing Bethany Christian Services Administrative Support Safe Families Collecting and Sorting Donations A Woman s Concern Collecting and Sorting Donations COBYS Family Services Collecting and Sorting Donations Bible2School Funds2Orgs Shoe Collection Bridge of Hope Collecting and Sorting Donations Agape Family Shelter Collecting and Sorting Donations Lebanon Rescue Mission Collecting and Sorting Donations Local Police Department Appreciation Lunch Local Fire Department Washing Fire Trucks Local Schools Landscaping Church World Service Serving Refuge Families Stop Hunger Now Meal Packing House of His Creation Landscaping Servants Construction Projects Abundant Living Ministries Landscaping Samaritan Shelter Green Meadow Farm Landscaping/Cleanup The Mix at Arbor Place Maintenance North Star Initiative Teen Haven City Wide Clean-Up Bethesda Mission Handi*Vangelism Ministries International Maintenance Lancaster County Prison Clare House Cleaning, Painting, & Landscaping 19

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