Help Others Friday!

Hello all,
Today, I challenge you (and I both) to realize the power of the word OUTREACH and how God can use us in the simplest ways if we are #1, ready and willing and #2, excited to represent our Savior and show what a loving, graceful and sacrificial God we serve.

Friday is "HELP OTHERS FRIDAY" - not just to help others ONLY on Fridays, but to be mindful and meaningful in the way we live our everyday lives. Today I want to encourage you to step out of your comfort zone into the vast unknown, reach out your hand and help someone in the simplest way. This could mean, carrying someone's groceries, befriending or talking to someone who looks burdened or lonely, or simply just being YOU by buying someone else a Starbucks coffee when you purchase one or buying a meal for the person behind you in the drive-through window.

Be creative. Be mindful. Be meaningful.

Here is an awesome resource that I have just signed up for and really want to take the challenge ...

Signup for either Kindness Weekly or Kindness Daily (or both) and you will be sent a newsletter of ideas of simple ways that YOU can reach out to someone around you ... I will have a Christian version of this in a few months (so stay tuned). Honestly...doesn't it bless you heart to see someone smile in Jesus' name?

HelpOthers.org
Weekly Newsletter Signup: http://www.helpothers.org/news.php
Daily Newsletter Signup: http://www.helpothers.org/news.php

Encouraging Scriptures on giving/serving:

Matthew 6:1-4
"Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. "So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you."


1 Corinthians 16:2
"On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made."


2 Corinthians 9:6-7
"Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver."


Proverbs 14:31
"He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker,but whoever is kind to the needy honors God."