KINDNESS MATTERS

27 EASY WAYS TO SHOW KINDNESS TO YOUR "NEIGHBOR"

1. Pay the bill of someone behind you in a drive through.

2. Rake the leaves or do yardwork for an elderly neighbor.

3. Make a dessert or meal for someone who has recently been ill, hospitalized, or had a baby.

4. Practice hospitality. Have someone over for dinner or dessert.

5. Babysit (or pet sit) for someone who may need it.

6. Send an encouraging card or text message to someone who needs it.

7. Send a care package to a college student.

8. Pay for a car wash for a friend. Or, fill a friend’s car up with gas.

9. Call your neighbor or an elderly friend before you go to the grocery store to see if they need anything picked up.

10. Buy someone a bouquet of flowers when you are at the store.

11. Shovel your neighbor’s driveway when it snows.

12. Make a casserole or soup suitable to freeze and drop it off at someone’s house unexpectedly.

13. If you clip coupons and find a great deal, share that with someone.

14. Take someone to dinner on a BOGO coupon.

15. Go on a missions trip to repair or build homes.

16. Help someone clean their home.

17. Organize a neighborhood pitch-in or cookout.

18. Water flowers, gather mail and packages for someone who is out of town.

19. Host a student for the holidays who can’t go home.

20. If you grow a garden, share your bounty with others.

21. Volunteer to tutor at a local school or volunteer for a school event.

22. Visit and read a book at the local nursing home.

23. Buy a gift card for someone in need.

24. Volunteer at the Bridge, Shelby Supply, or the Women’s Journey to Hope home.

25. Volunteer at “Love Inc.”

26. Volunteer or help plan “Feed My Starving Children”

27. Pray regularly for ways to serve others & for God to open your eyes to the needs around you.