I still have $4,300 to raise! Please donate if you can, and if not, just keep us in your prayers. I get to meet the squad I will be leading in just a couple weeks, and thats when I find out where they are sending me in August. Updates will come soon:)
It is my natural instinct to encourage people. The Lord gifted me to be an exhorter. He put it in my blood to leave people better than I found them because Christ left me better off when He found me.
I never doubt the amount of influence that my words and actions can have on someones life. Small gestures and large gestures all add up to making people feel appreciated and valued. I hold doors open for people all the time. I tell people thank you all the time. I smile at strangers all the time (and sometimes that leads to awkward encounters lol).
I believe in being somebody who makes everybody feel like a somebody. Even though you are one person, you can still have an amazing effect on other people lives, even if all you do is smile at a stranger.
I challenge you to encourage somebody every single day of your life. Look for the opportunities to make someone feel better and feel valued. Leave people better than you found them. Always be a kind person, always.
• Hold the door open for someone today.
• Tell the cashier at a restaurant how grateful you are for their service to you.
• Identify and communicate at least three ways in which you appreciate your family members, children, co-workers.
• Send your pastor or small group leader (or both) an email expressing your gratitude for them.
• Send a friend an email expressing your gratitude for them.
• Let someone go ahead of you in the line at the grocery store.
• Take some food or dessert to your neighbor.
• Post an encouraging “status” on your Facebook page.
• Say “thank you” to at least five people today.
• Pray for a friend and let him/her know specifically what you prayed for.
The list is endless. Now go make a difference is someones life:)
Put love in action.
