Service Progressive Party: Something for the Grown-Ups

We focus here at "Pennies of Time" on serving with our children.  At the same time, it is fun (and important) to do things without them.  Try this one on:

A Service Progressive Dinner

Invite other couples to participate just as you would with a regular progressive party.  Each couple takes on responsibility of one of the dinner courses, such as:  drinks, appetizers, salad, soup, main entree, and dessert.  (or you can add more, or you can have fewer courses)

AND, each couple takes on a Service Element to share when serving the assigned food course.

The Service Element could be:

• Donate:  Ask the other couples to donate to a chosen cause, creating awareness for a cause that has meaning to them.  (even a $1 donation is important)
• Bring an Item:  Ask the other couples to bring an item to donate to a chosen cause (books, clothes, etc).
• Service Act:  Ask the other couples to help with a short service task.  Many hands make light work.
• Spread the Word:  Tell the other couples about a cause or organization that is important to them.
• FIELD TRIP:  Invite the couples to visit a worthy organization (and hand out the food course in a paper bag to eat on the go . .  "here is a cup of soup and now we will walk through a homeless shelter")

It can be as small as you would like, or you can make it bigger by asking each couples to invite another couple along.  So, if you have four original couples providing food and Service Elements . . . then each couple asks another couple along . . . and now you have 8 couples eating, talking, laughing, and serving together, all in an evening of fun.

(What? What Service Element would I pick? Right now, I am really captured by Free The Girls: Donate a bra, give a slave a job. I would ask couples to donate bras, gently used bras work great.)