For Day 19 of 30 Days of Kindness, we had scheduled to pick up trash at the park, but then it snowed again, making it hard to find the trash. We made up for it by breaking out the snow shovels and once again shoveling walkways as a way to show God's love!
Not too much to tell on this one. Before I went to work in the morning, I walked up and down the street with a snow shovel and cleared sidewalks and driveways for people who needed help. This is the second AoK that got replaced for snow shoveling. Read about sidewalk shoveling #1 to learn about how magical an Oneonta snow storm can be the morning after.
This round of snow shoveling had a lot less interaction with people than the first time we did it. I spent the work day a little bummed about that, thinking my efforts may have been in vain. But later that afternoon, I got a phone call from a woman whose driveway I had shoveled and left a kindness card on her door.
She was very appreciative of the act, and she had heard about our church from one of her friends that we met at last year's 6th Ward Block Party. It turns out that she is part of a woman's Christian prayer group that meets in each others' homes. She informed me that her and her friends have been praying for years that a new church like ours would rise up in Oneonta to meet its unique ministry needs.
We chatted for several minutes about faith and church and how enjoyable life is in the 6th Ward. A few weeks later, after all the snow had melted, I got to meet this neighbor of mine and give her a tour of our building. She promised to pray for our church, which is more valuable to a church planter than any amount of money that could be made shoveling snow.
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