Our goal is to complete 30 acts of kindness in the 30 days before the Good Friday launch, with our launch being on the 30th day. This will establish the church as a group of people with a servant's heart, and provide us with a personal and meaningful connection to our community.
We have been running an Acts of Kindness ministry since we began working on the church. We love doing it and have seen many people blessed by it. We have done a variety of acts of kindness, ranging from cleaning toilets, to giving away funnel cakes, to raking leaves, and more! In the past, our efforts have been small, due to a small group of volunteers, sporadic work schedules, and limited resources, but even small acts have produced big fruit. For this 30 Day Campaign, we are wanting to go big and get as many people involved as possible!
In order to do something big, you first have to dream big. We have dreamed up a big acts of kindness wish list full of activities that we want to perform to make a maximum impact on our community. Between now and Feb. 22,* we will be fundraising so that we can start our 30 Days of Kindness campaign by Feb. 28. We have divided our list by projects, and we are asking you to review the list, pick a project that tugs at your heart, and sponsor it with the amount that the project cost.
This blog article will serve as our master page to keep track of the fundraising. As people sponsor projects, we will mark on this page which ones have been sponsored and keep a running total (it is okay to double sponsor an act if you want to see a project be twice as big). After the gifts are totaled up, we will publish an official 30 Days of Kindness calendar; this will allow us to organize volunteers and get more people involved. If we do not meet 100% of our fundraising goal, then we will still proceed with the 30 Days of Kindness campaign and just recycle a few of the inexpensive projects. Here is our acts of kindness wish list! (click to enlarge)
To help break down this list, we have organized it from most expensive to least expensive. Some of these projects are even free to put on. This is the list we will use to keep track of our fundraising efforts
List Updated on Feb. 27
$500 Help at the Pump $350 Free Oil Change
$300 Launch Gift Bags
$150 Parents Night Out 1
$150 Parents Night Out 2
$100 Free Community Dinner
$100 The Big Tip
$75 Welcome Wagon
$50 PLEDGED! Hot Dog Giveaway
$50 Battery Giveaway
$50 PLEDGED! Free Bus Rides
$40 Light Bulb Giveaway
$35 PLEDGED! Free Laundry
$35 Shopping Bag Giveaway
$35 Rock Show for the Hungry
$35 Art Show
$35 Funnel Cake Giveaway
$25 Paint Graffiti
$25 PLEDGED! Thank the Vets
$25 PLEDGED! St. Patrick's Day Driver
$15 PLEDGED! Dog Walk
$10 PLEDGED! Car Wash
$10 PLEDGED! Seed Giveaway
$10 Trash Pickup
$10 Bathroom Cleaning
$10 Window Washing
No cost! Entertain Nursing Home
No cost! Bag Groceries
DONATED! Free Studio Photos
DONATED! Free Hair Cuts
Total Amount pledged for AoK: $1242!
The 30 Days of Kindness calender has been published and we will be doing all but one the projects that we sought support towards!
*30 Days of Kindness starts on Feb. 28, but we will be accepting donations all throughout the campaign to cover additional cost and purchase more supplies.
When we originally planned this, we thought the AoK teams would be very small, news of this project is beginning to spread and it looks like we will many more volunteers! This is wonderful news and it will take extra funds put more supplies in more people's hands. Any additional funds that we can raise will go a long way. This is an outreach project, we are not seeking donations, therefore expenses will add up fairly quickly
This 30 Days of Kindness campaign will be chronicled on this blog and on Facebook. Be sure to check back often to track the progress of our 30 Days of Kindness and the launch of the Redemption Movement! Feel free to contact us if you would like to participate.
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