FindingJoy4Eternity Blog

Just a little random act of kindness for the people in some of the businesses in our city.  The reactions were great.  Some didn't get it.  And some were so pleasantly surprised.  One lady just went on and on about how what we were doing and how it had inspired her to go home and do a random act of kindness.

From Day 1 we had been collecting change to donate to Adventist Frontier Missions.  The kids had decorated their own jars and then on Thursday they each brought in what they had collected and we all dumped our money into two larger containers for the AFM people to take.   We just found out that we collected over $211!  :)     This last day the kids also put together little glow packs so that their church could help in passing these out.  They are for thanking community workers for serving so faithfully!

We tied health cards and health tracts around bananas and walked all over town handing them out!  :) The best story is from a man who told us that just that morning his wife was yelling at him to take a banana with him and he told her he just didn't have time. He said she would be pretty tickled that his banana showed up at work for him!

Blessing Bags for any homeless people they come across. These bags included: trail mix applesauce cups granola bars crackers wet wipe kleenex glow tract chapstick comb a handmade card

For the kids to leave in their mailboxes... For the kids to give to friends and important people in their lives like music teachers and neighbors. 

Some church members and friends were moving away and we just wanted to let them know we'd miss them...  

A good friend came up with this one.  I haven't tried it out yet, but it would be a great one to hand out to people after a crisis.

This is the specific valentine I made for the students of my stepmom's Health Evangelism class.  Very cute!  :)

We'd never done anything like this before.  The church members just pull right in and set up tables at the end of their cars.  People were handing out food, clothes, bags, and books, and we handed out our candy valentines. We'd sure love to find some place local to feed the homeless!

My favorite birthdays are the ones when we do something for others! Dillon and Elijah both had birthdays in February and they wanted to celebrate with our friends in Tennessee.  They chose to invite their friends to bring gifts for an animal shelter instead of bringing gifts for them and it was a hit.  After games and food we took our gifts down to the animal shelter where we then had a tour and got to hang out with the animals for a while.  The kids loved it!! Two wonderful friends from Highland Academy  The kids and all their donations for the shelter.  And of course, they wanted to take the animals home with them! 

We made these to give out this year at Valentines.  Some we just handed out to random people.  Some I gave to a University class that I spoke at.  And many of them we handed out to the homeless people that we took other things to one Sabbath afternoon before Valentines.

If you want to be inspired to live generously, this is the book for you!! It is so inspiring!  Read it!