This March, there’s an opportunity for your church to get involved in missions close to home — really, there’s more than 20 opportunities.

Making a Difference Mobile is asking for volunteers to come alongside churches in Mobile Baptist Association as they reach their community with events from grilling out to hosting a dental clinic or Easter egg hunt.

“It is a good short-term missions opportunity and also an opportunity for pastors to take their church members to see ministry in the community, to see opportunities that maybe they hadn’t thought of being able to do in their local area,” said Rick Barnhart, director of the office of associational missions and church planting for the Alabama Baptist State board of Missions. “It’s an opportunity to train people to do missions at home.”

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This article was originally published at TheAlabamaBaptist.org.