Ten groups Scripture names specifically — not as suggestions, but as the people God's people are always for. Start with one. Stay with them.
Those without enough to eat β at your intersection, in your school district, two doors down.
"If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness." β Isaiah 58:10
Children without parents β through foster care, adoption, mentoring, or supporting the families who say yes.
"Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction." β James 1:27
Those who have lost a spouse β practical help, presence, and the long quiet work of remembering.
"Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation." β Psalm 68:5
Those in material need β neighbors, the working poor, families one missed paycheck from crisis.
"Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed." β Proverbs 19:17
Those bound by substances or compulsions β and the families who love them through it.
"For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery." β Galatians 5:1
Victims of trafficking, abuse, and injustice β the ones whose voices have been taken from them.
"Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy." β Proverbs 31:8β9
Those behind bars, those leaving prison, and the children whose parents are inside.
"Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body." β Hebrews 13:3
The weak, the sick, the elderly, the unborn, the disabled β anyone the world overlooks.
"Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute." β Psalm 82:3
People groups who have never heard the name of Jesus β the next neighbor, the next nation.
"How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard?" β Romans 10:14
God's covenant people β pray for them, stand with them, never stop loving the people from whom the Messiah came.
"Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! May they be secure who love you!" β Psalm 122:6
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.