365 Days of Kindness – Day 267

So many AMAZING Random Acts of Kindness Stories from the 365 Days of Kindness from last year and so far this year! If you would like to share your story, GO HERE!! It is so encouraging and exciting to watch God at work. THANK YOU JESUS!! I will start posting the night before so everyone can like and share with their friends and family. Let’s get everyone we know involved in this movement of the 365 Days of Kindness:)

**DAY 267 CHALLENGE**

Today, I challenge everyone to  find a gas station and tape some money to the pump (The amount can be as small as $1 or as much as you want!)  Remember no amount is to small ~ Jesus performed the miracle with 5 loaves and 2 fish and can do the same with $1 if that is all you have!!  We also attached the FREE Act of Kindness Cards that (YOU CAN PRINT BY CLICKING HERE). The purpose of printing the cards is that the recipient can then recycle it and pass the card on by doing another random act of kindness. My vision is that this will continue and continue until EVERYONE is involved in some capacity. Who’s in? I am praying that everyone gets involved in this. None of us can help everyone, but all of us can help someone, and when we do we serve Jesus. We can make an impact in our communities, one life at a time!!

If you want to share you random acts of Kindness stories or see the random act of Kindness list that we have completed, CLICK HERE!

GOD IS GOOD. . ALL THE TIME!!

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365 Days of Kindness ~ Day 266

So many AMAZING stories from the 365 Days of Kindness from last year and so far this year! If you would like to share your story, GO HERE!! It is so encouraging and exciting to watch God at work. THANK YOU JESUS!!

I will start posting the night before so everyone can like and share with their friends and family. Let’s get everyone we know involved in this movement.

**DAY 266 CHALLENGE**

Today, I challenge everyone to send an encouraging card to Dana Brown who was diagnosed with muscular system atrophy and is currently living in an assisted living facility. Her Sister, Kimmee, said this would surely brighten her up.

What a great way to show the love of Jesus and you can find FREE printables on the computer or homemade so the only expense is the postage!!

Please send all mail to:
Dana Brown
C/O Golden South Assisted Living
705 Denham Road
Sycamore, Ga 31790

Also include one of the 365 Days of Kindness cards BY CLICKING HERE or make your own.  I hope everyone gets involved in this challenge. We truly can show the love of Christ in such a small, small way! None of us can help everyone, but all of us can help someone, and when we do we serve Jesus. We can make an impact in our communities, one life at a time!!

GOD IS GOOD. . ALL THE TIME!!

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We will be doing a monthly outreach to help feed the homeless/less fortunate in our community and as always we will be sharing the random acts of kindness stories of the event. Each month we have had amazing things happen and love to share with everyone what exciting things God is doing in our communities.

We are scheduled for  Sunday, September 21st from 4 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. at St. Lucas Lutheran Church at 745 Walbridge Avenue (Off of Broadway), Toledo, OH 43609.  (Please note you will need to use the Frank Door Entrance). We are doing a Chicken Theme dinner.  This is for the entire family so feel free to bring your children.  We have a  sign-up sheet for all items that we need below.    PLEASE READ CAREFULLY THE NOTES BESIDE EACH ITEM YOU ARE SIGNING UP FOR SO YOU PROVIDE THE CORRECT QUANTITY NEEDED !!

We need all the food to be brought in the 1/2 size aluminum pans (Standard 9 x 13 and approx. 2″ deep) or you can bring a full size sheet pan.  Please make sure they are completely full as that is what we are basing the portion sizes on.  One of the dishes is chicken sheet pan, it is super easy to make and here is the recipe.

To sign up for the items and/or to sign up to volunteer, Go HERE!! If you want to sign up for multiple items, please feel free to do that. We need all items at the church NO LATER THAN 3:30 p.m. and please come in the Frank Street Entrance at the Big RED DOOR!!   Please note we are unable to pick up food items, so please only sign up if you are able to drop them off at church:)  All items also need to be fully cooked pleased.   The link above should take you directly to the sign-up sheet. Also, if you would like to make a monetary donation visit the Miracle CHRISTmas website and click on the “donate” tab for a secure paypal donation. Thanks for helping us feed the least of these ~ MATTHEW 25:40 If you are willing to help the day of the event, please sign up also – that section is at the bottom of the sign-up sheet! We will need many to stay afterwards to help us clean up please. Thanks for continuing to be the hands and feet of Jesus!! This is such a cool outreach and I am really excited about this!!  You guys are simply amazing!

Something for everyone to think about also as we prepare for this meal, What does kindness mean to each of you? I sometimes think we underestimate how powerful kindness can be to people who are hurting. It truly can change their lives FOREVER!

GOD IS GOOD. . ALL THE TIME!!

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Here is the Video from our weekend full of Random Acts of Kindness Stories – #DoSomethingSummer

Matthew West has challenged everyone to take the #DoSomethingSummer Challenge, where you do something for others. It can be anything, but just do something. As part of our 365 Days of Kindness, we have been doing FREE Laundry Days and feeding the homeless/low income families, so this past weekend we kicked it up a notch, by doing a FREE Laundry Day on Saturday and then on Sunday we had a FREE Community Picnic. We blocked the street off and invited the ENTIRE community to come have a FREE meal, FREE fellowship, FREE music, FREE bounce house, FREE backpacks, and FREE hugs. We just loved on the people. We were able to serve close to 300 people. It was an amazing day. You see Random Acts of Kindness matter. Everyone has a different definition of kindness, but I think everyone would agree kindness just does your soul good. It puts a smile on your face and Joy in your heart. I hope this video captures the entire two days and gives you a glimpse into what this blog, freetastesgood.com, stands for. Matthew 25:40, says “Whatever you do for a brother of sister of mine, you have done to me”. You see when we serve others, we are actually serving Jesus. This is a weekend that will forever be engrained in my heart. Lives were impacted including my family.

To read more about our 365 Days of Kindness Challenge. Print your Free Acts of Kindness Cards HERE! The purpose of printing the cards is that the recipient can then recycle it and pass the card on by doing another random act of kindness.

Wow. . . I am so humbled by today’s Family Community Picnic. As you prepare for something this big you just never know how it is going to turn out. This is a dream that God placed on my heart about five years ago; to go out in the community and offer a FREE Family Picnic. I cannot even tell you how full of Joy my heart is right now. As I sit here writing this tears are filling my eyes because this was a true day full of God, love, friendship, and fellowship. So many of you gave up your Sunday to come and serve. That is what being the hands and feet of Jesus is all about; taking the focus off of ourselves and putting it on others. [Read more…]

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Random Acts of Kindness – #DoSomethingSummer

Many of you have probably heard that song by Matthew West, Do Something. It is an amazing song and hear are a few of the lyrics to Do Something

I woke up this morning
Saw a world full of trouble now
Thought, how’d we ever get so far down
How’s it ever gonna turn around
So I turned my eyes to Heaven
I thought, “God, why don’t You do something?”
Well, I just couldn’t bear the thought of
People living in poverty
Children sold into slavery
The thought disgusted me
So, I shook my fist at Heaven
Said, “God, why don’t You do something?”
He said, “I did, I created you”

Yes, he created us to do something and I take that challenge seriously. Today was our 4th FREE Laundry Day and honestly I don’t even know where to begin. This day was AMAZING. As we prepare for these FREE Laundry Days we just NEVER know what to expect, but I can tell you that today was like no other. To sit back and watch God at work is sometimes overwhelming (in a good way). We did close to 74 loads today and many people are following us to the different laundromats to get their laundry done.

 

Each laundromat is unique in so many ways and I just want to put a Huge Thank you out to Kristi and her husband, owners of Reynolds Laundromat, and Josh and Josh. Everyone pitched in today, from going out and helping people bring their clothes in to washing, to drying, folding, and taking clean clothes back out to the cars. We even had a special helper today, Chris Vickers, from Channel 11.

Sargent Tony, TPD, who has been helping us at all our events brought his wife, Terri today, and what a huge blessing she was. This event is not about me or Jamie or any of the volunteers, but this event is all about serving Jesus. . . being the image of Christ. Showing kindness and the love of Jesus to others and I think everyone that comes in would know they are loved. My oldest daughter, Ciera, and niece, Chelsea, helped today and it was amazing. Words truly cannot even express my emotions. I look around and think WOW only God could orchestrate something like this. So many friendships being formed and such a cool way to give back to our community. What some of us may take for granted, doing laundry, for others it is a luxury, but because so many of you believe in what we do, this becomes possible and all the glory to God. My favorite part is always the prayer before we start.

The best part is EVERYONE joins in, even the people coming to get their laundry clean and that is how it is supposed to be. I know lives are being impacted by these laundry days and I cannot thank God enough for providing the resources every time to make it happen, all for his Glory! We were able to help many families today and I love that we have goodies (cupcakes, cookies, bottled water, bagged chips, etc to serve people also). What I think we all need to remember is no act of kindness is too small or big. When God places something on your heart, we just need to trust him and believe in faith that it will come to be. We have done 4 FREE Laundry days now and over 400 loads of laundry. Thank you all for believing in the vision, making donations, volunteering, and praying. You see it takes all of these things to take place for these things to happen and all is just as important as the other!!

I love you guys and am already excited for the next one in October. GOD IS GOOD. . . ALL THE TIME!!

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RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS VIDEO

We wanted to share our journey of our 2nd-annual Cereal Donation Drive with all of you. Last week, we had several coupons that became available and I asked for your help.  We asked you to send us the coupons and can I just say, I still am in Awe of how many of you got involved. . . Thank you!! Because of the outpouring, we ventured out to 4 Giant Eagles to fill Sylvania Area Family Services’s Pantry with cereal. After 3 hours of shopping, we had 191 boxes (all for FREE). It is amazing to watch God at work and how things like this are possible because so many of you got involved.  We went to 4 different Giant Eagles and after our 2nd stopped, we went to a gas station and did a random act of kindness (see video). It truly is cool to think these little pieces of paper that so many take for granted (coupons) can fill a van full of cereal and how so many families will be blessed by this. Jonah, our 10 year-old son prayed over the cereal and asked that God would bless whomever received the cereal. We are excited to continue to make this an annual event and will be doing our second run this Friday/Saturday in Columbus, OH, so we will get another 190+ Boxes to donate for a grand total of 380 boxes.

We surely hope you enjoy the video and watching what we were able to accomplish . . . all for the glory of God!

You can also print some FREE Act of Kindness Cards BY CLICKING HERE!! The purpose of printing the cards is that the recipient can then recycle it and pass the card on by doing another random act of kindness. My vision is that this will continue and continue until EVERYONE is involved in some capacity.

To join us on our 365 Days of Kindness Journey, Click HERE!!

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Random Acts of Kindness Video

As most of you know, we are currently on year 2 of 365 Days of Kindness.  Each day we challenge everyone to do an act of kindness for someone.  So many of the things don’t cost a penny,  but we recently (7/13) filled up a lady’s jeep for FREE.   She was so surprised and it was just a very cool thing to experience.  So many times we get so focused on our own lives that we forget to take time to think of others.  No matter how big or small, an act of kindness can change the day someone is having or even change their lives.  I pray you all join us on our adventure of the 365 Days of Kindness.

To follow along or see other Acts of Kindness that we have performed, CLICK HERE! 

Snag the FREE Act of Kindness Cards BY CLICKING HERE!!

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**URGENT – WE NEED 10 MORE PEOPLE TO VOLUNTEER DAY OF EVENT**

We will be doing a monthly outreach to help feed the homeless/less fortunate in our community and as always we will be sharing the random acts of kindness stories of the event. Each month we have had amazing things happen and love to share with everyone what exciting things God is doing in our communities.

We are scheduled for  Sunday, July 20th from 4 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. at St. Lucas Lutheran Church at 745 Walbridge Avenue (Off of Broadway), Toledo, OH 43609.  (Please note you will need to use the Frank Door Entrance). We are doing an Italian dinner and had some requests for a couple cherry pies this time, so we will be supplying that. We have had many say they cannot help due to summer being so busy and we appreciate that and completely understand, but please remember, people are still hungry in the summer so any help you can give is greatly  appreciated!! This is for the entire family so feel free to bring your children.  We have a  sign-up sheet for all items that we need below.    PLEASE READ CAREFULLY THE NOTES BESIDE EACH ITEM YOU ARE SIGNING UP FOR SO YOU PROVIDE THE CORRECT QUANTITY NEEDED !!

We need all the food to be brought in the 1/2 size aluminum pans (Standard 9 x 13 and approx. 2″ deep) or you can bring a full size sheet pan.  Please make sure they are completely full as that is what we are basing the portion sizes on. To sign up for the items and/or to sign up to volunteer, Go HERE!! If you want to sign up for multiple items, please feel free to do that. We need all items at the church NO LATER THAN 3:30 p.m. and please come in the Frank Street Entrance at the Big RED DOOR!!   Please note we are unable to pick up food items, so please only sign up if you are able to drop them off at church:)  All items also need to be fully cooked pleased.   The link above should take you directly to the sign-up sheet. Also, if you would like to make a monetary donation visit the Miracle CHRISTmas website and click on the “donate” tab for a secure paypal donation. Thanks for helping us feed the least of these ~ MATTHEW 25:40 If you are willing to help the day of the event, please sign up also – that section is at the bottom of the sign-up sheet! We will need many to stay afterwards to help us clean up please. Thanks for continuing to be the hands and feet of Jesus!! This is such a cool outreach and I am really excited about this!!  You guys are simply amazing!

Something for everyone to think about also as we prepare for this meal, What does kindness mean to each of you? I sometimes think we underestimate how powerful kindness can be to people who are hurting. It truly can change their lives FOREVER!

GOD IS GOOD. . ALL THE TIME!!

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ANNUAL CEREAL FOOD DRIVE

**BIG FAVOR** As most of you know we do an annual Donation Cereal Food Drive for Sylvania Area Family Services at Giant Eagle. Well since our 2 local Giant Eagles closed, we have decided to make a trip to Columbus, BUT we need coupons. Below is a direct link to the 6 CEREAL coupons that we need (Jif, Cheerios, Golden Grahams, Reese’s, Rice Krispies, and Frosted Mini Wheats). If you are able to print and mail to us I would be so grateful. I am even willing to send you postage.  Our goal is to donate at least 150 boxes!!

Our mailing address is:
Free Tastes Good
PO Box 312
Sylvania, OH 43560.

CLICK HERE for direct link to coupons (they will all be preclipped – all you have to do is click the “print” button)

Remember you can print 2 of the same coupons per computer 

Here is a picture of us dropping off (haul #1) to SAFS last year 🙂

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