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What it is:
An opportunity to actively search out ways to serve others – and then serve without fanfare
How it Works:
Set aside and dedicate as much time that you can spare during the entire week
Work as a couple, a team or alone. There’s no one to report to
Look around you to find opportunities to serve (see below for ideas)
Seek to serve without recognition. Serve quietly and with dignity
Share the Serve Where You Are details with others
Ideas for Service:
Help out at the food bank
Clean a cemetery
Carry groceries for someone
Collect books for a battered women’s shelter
Be someone’s shoulder to cry on
Compliment a stranger
Smile at someone
Offer to mow someone’s lawn
Offer to make a drugstore run for an elderly person
Attend an AA meeting with someone
Take a sack lunch to a homeless person
Hand out signed “coupons” that say, “Sometimes it’s just nice to know someone cares about you. I care”, (see attached document as a basic example)
Spread the word!
Post this at your work or hand it out as a flyer
Email this to your friends in your address book (please don’t spam)
Blog about it
Visit the Service Blog http://serviceafol.blogspot.com/ and be sure to comment
Tell me how it goes:
I’m interested to hear your experiences. If you’re interested, please email me at jameswhofheins@yahoo.com and tell me some of the things you did to serve. Be as detailed as you like; tell me about the reactions you got from others, how you felt, and if your experience would lead you to participate again.
With your permission, I’d also like to post your comments on my blog, using only your first name and city and state.
Thank you so much for being willing to participate. Truly, service is the action form of love!
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1 comment:
I have a good example of serving when you don't really want to, but then it makes you feel so good in the end. Do I put it in the comments here or do I email it to you?
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