77 Ways Your Family Can Make a Difference: Ideas and Activities for Serving Others Paperback – July 1, 2008

This book is practical, creative and I found it very inpsiring! It provides low-cost ideas that you can do with children (even very small ones) to integrate serving others into your daily lives. It actually helped inspire me to pull together a small group of like-minded Moms and small children doing various activities to serve our local community! We visited a nursing home for a time and are now using this book to help come up with more ideas for different activities that we can serve our community and world with our kids. The ideas it provides are endless, and the scripture/Bible-based references are really helpful when sharing in a group setting and trying to instill these principles in children. Highly recommend!

"A wonderful resource filled with key ideas to stimulate families to serve the body of Christ."Need some ideas for family projects? Need to teach your family the meaning of ministry? Or, are you looking for some mission project ideas?You can find 77 ideas in this book. A wide variety of ministry ideas and projects geared to get your focus off yourself and onto the body of Christ.Penny Zeller's 77 Ways Your Family Can Make a Difference: Ideas and Activities for Serving Others is a handbook for family, group, or even personal ministry projects. It even includes templates ideal for use as certificates, coupons, invitation, and thank you notes.In preparation for this review, I researched the word `difference` and discovered that it means "a significant change in or effect on a situation." If you are searching for a list of biblical based ideas or projects that will impact your sphere of influence, this book is a very good choice.For the wide list of ideas and the encouragement if offers to spur service to others, I highly recommend this book.DisclaimerThe author provided the review copy of this book free of charge. After the review was prepared, the review copy was donated to the SOS (Serving Our Savior) ministry of Westwood Baptist Church.Reviewed by: Keiki HendrixReviewed for: Penny Zeller

"77 Ways Your Family Can Make A Difference" by Penny A Zeller, is a book filled with awesome ideas that you and your family can do to reach out and help others in need. Some ideas I had never thought of before like, "Design a Bring-It-Back Box", where you go on vacation, or a trip to the zoo, or the park and find things, or take pictures to put in your box. You take the box to someone who isn't able to go on a vacation for whatever reason. Pretty simple right? All of the ideas are good, and ones that wouldn't be hard to do! So if you're looking for ways to help others,I suggest you read this book. It's worth it.

77 Ways Your Family Can Make a Difference is an outstanding resource for families with children of all ages. Zeller out did herself with not only 77 ideas of service but in a user friendly style. Families,teachers,church groups and service clubs will find a wealth of resources in this book. A must read for all who need ideas to enhance their service life.

No more excuses or reasons not to serve! As followers of Christ, we are called to serve. Zeller gives us many clever service opportunities the whole family can enjoy together. It will take a long time to exhaust all of the great ideas in this book. 77 Ways Your Family Can Make A Difference is a quick and easy read; great for just about anyone.