Serve Sunday 2025

Open Life's Serve Sunday location has changed to Victor Falls Elementary, located at (11401 188th Ave Ct E, Bonney Lake, WA 98391, just a mile and a half away from BLHS. This change will provide a larger space to accommodate everyone at Open Life serving together (families, singles, young and old) as well as facilitating a larger project that is urgently needed by GoodRoots Northwest. We'll be packing 2,000 "Power Packs" which are sent home with students over the weekends in our local schools. Our service duration will be the same as usual, 10am to 11:10, but this time we will be on location at VFE.

For the past number of years, Open Life has taken one Sunday each year to serve our community through an act of service connected to the community around us. Our first serve Sunday was actually February 14th, 2016 when we packed food supplies into individual bags for World Vision.

In recent years, there have been certain Sundays that limit our access to the PAC at BLHS which we rent every Sunday for our weekly in-person service (Robotics Tournaments, School Musicals). Add in the annual Women's Retreat which concludes on Sunday morning, there were decisions to be made as to what we would do without access to the venue and less people in service.  It is Craig Groeschel that has coined the phrase "limitation breads innovation". When one door is closed another opens, and this is the case every year for Open Life. So we thought of a creative way to pivot our regular scheduled Sunday Service and move everyone over to the Commons at BLHS and do a Serve project that would benefit the local food bank. What is possible when we gather a bunch of people ready to serve with the supplies that are needed within the community over the coming months? Well, we packed through hundreds of individual bags of spices and oatmeal, all while having a blast serving together.

What seemed to be an obstacle became a powerful day doing something with our faith that we usually don't get to do on a Sunday morning.

As the years have gone by we have discovered that the best Sundays to avoid trying to battle through the overcrowding at the High School and this year, for the first time, we will take our serve day offsite to serve GoodRoots Northwest and their most pressing need on Sunday, March 16th. The obstacle at the High School is their annual Robotics Tournament which is so massive we really can't coexist on the same facility during their tournament as we discovered in 2024. So last year when the date was added to the school's calendar we immediately called GoodRoots and began planning to do a serve Sunday with them on March 16th.

Originally we had planned to go to their facility off of 410 just past 234th, but in the last few weeks it has become evident we would not fit everyone at their Market venue. Additionally, there were going to be no fitting opportunities for families with kids to serve. So we began planning options and a perfect option presented itself.

GoodRoots warehouse locations are in the process of moving and this is where they prepare school backpack meals called Power Packs. They will have a challenge preparing these packs during their move. Collectively, we determined that if we can can pack all 2,000 of these meals to get them months down the road they will be in a great position to continue serving the students within the Sumner Bonney Lake School District with Power Packs this year. We quickly reached out to the School District and rented Victor Falls Elementary in order to facilitate the assembly of these Power Packs on Sunday.

We hope you will join us at Victor Falls Elementary (11401 188th Ave Ct E, Bonney Lake, WA 98391). It is a time for the whole family to join together doing what Jesus challenges us to do... Loving our community in a tangible way through acts of service. 

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