This list is adapted from a friend's. As World Racers we have prayers for the Church, for the World, for our lives, and for our future. You can be the answer to these prayers in so many ways. Here's just a few… try one of them or try them all! Message me or comment below with how it changes your day life.
1. Fast sun up to sun down for the 2 billion people who live on less than a dollar a day.
2. Adopt a child.
3. Celebrate your natural beauty! Ladies- go an entire day in public without make-up.
4. Commit to reducing the number of plastic bottles your family uses this year.
5. Invite someone from the grocery store to enjoy a meal with you.
6. Visit a worship service where you will be a minority. Invite someone to dinner, or accept an invitation if one is extended to you.
7. Wash your clothes by hand, or dry them by line drying to remember the billion people that live without electricity!
8. Faithfully write to your Compassion, World Vision, Food for the Hungry, etc. sponsor child!
9. Go TV free for a year.
10. Give your winter coat to someone who is colder than you.
11. Grow your own tomatoes- and share them.
12. Track to its source, one item of food you eat regularly. Then, each time you eat that food, pray for those who helped make it possible for you to eat it.
13. Hang out at a tent city one night a week.
14.Commit to praying for someone you normally wouldn't. Some suggestions are a person in prison, someone on a most wanted list, or a school bully.
15. Join hands with someone who needs prayer.
16. Buy only used clothes for a year.
17. Volunteer to tutor a child at your local elementary school. (Try to get to know the child's family.)
18. Prayer walk at your University's Campus
19. Start tithing generously and joyfully.
20. Commit to begin and end every day in prayer.
21.When you're uncomfortable, irritable, or otherwise put out- play the thankful game. "God I am thankful for…"
22. Worship in a public park.
23. Teach Sunday school at your church and learn more from the kiddos than you thought possible.
24. Mow your neighbor’s grass.
25. Donate to a campership so a child can go to summer camp!
26. Go down a line of parked cars and pay for the meters that are expired. Leave a little note of niceness.
27. Serve in a homeless shelter. For extra credit, go back and eat or sleep in the shelter and allow yourself to be served.
28. Eat only a bowl of rice a day for a week to remember those who do that for most of their life (take a multivitamin). Remember the 30,000 people who die each day of poverty and malnutrition.
29. Each morning at breakfast read the Sermon on the Mount out loud with your family.
30. Plant a tree.
31. Offer to change the oil for a single mom in your community.
32. Invite an international student to spend Thanksgiving with you…pilgrims aside, share why you are thankful.
33. Keep blankets and bottled water in your car for the homeless you pass on your way to work in the morning.Bonus points for offering a bedroom in your home to them.
34. Make it a habit on Sunday mornings, that the first person you speak to after service is someone you don't know.
35. Don't answer "fine" when someone asks you how you're doing if you're really not.
36. Send an encouraging email or message to the missionaries your Church supports. Pray for one of us by name each night at dinner.
37. Spend time in a nursing home. Call bingo, play bridge, or just listen to the stories of someone a little wiser than yourself.
38. Become a one car family for a week.
39. Extend grace and friendship to someone who isn't a Christian. Live out the gospel AND use words.
40. Babysit for a couple and refuse to be compensated. If they insist, donate the money to your Church's adoption fund.
41. Meet with your mission's director and discuss local ministries you can be involved with.
42. Be part of a field gleaning!
43. Ask someone you trust to give you constructive feedback on one area of your life.
44. Stop gossip.
45. Invite someone to Church with you, offer to pick them up for fair-trade coffee before hand.
46. Pray wisdom for your government officials, school board members, bosses and other authority in your life.
47. Compliment your grocery store clerk, as he or she is ringing you out.
48. Support local businesses and ministries. Learn the story behind the owner's dream and vision and encourage it!
49. Refrain from using your horn while driving.
50. Buy extra school supplies and donate them anonymously for a student in public school who needs them… get the good crayons!
