Saturday, January 19, 2008

Free Rice for Vocabulary Words

There is a website: http://freerice.com/, where you can answer vocab. words and for each word you get right, 20 grains of rice are donated through the United Nations to help stop world hunger. IT doesn't seen like a lot, but last night I spent about 25 minutes messing around with the words and got 7240 grains of rice donated. And even a little bit can make a difference.

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Compassion

There are a million little kids in counties in poverty. I know that a lot of places that you can sponsor children from cheat people out of their money and only about half goes to the children and I know that the sponsor people can be extremely annoying when they send you all that extra crap about sending more money and having other people sign up and stuff, but knowing that a little kid is getting helped makes it worth it.

I am currently sponsoring a 11 year old girl in Ethiopia named Emebet. She is so cute! And at times when I question why I signed up to sponsor her, the next day or so I'll get a letter from her in the mail and it makes me happy and ready to help again. Like God is trying to help me stay on track to help her. She always sends me these cute little pictures she's drawn of cars and animals and herself. And then I remember why I do it. The people who I sent the money to is Compassion.

So what I'm trying to say is we as God's children should help his other children in need, whether it be helping out in your community or sponsoring a child. Do something! Remember ARKs?
And if you are currently sponsoring a child somewhere, that's great! And if your not and you would like to, check it out here.

Saturday, January 12, 2008

Acts of Random Kindness

Ok, so this is something I've been trying to do more of. In the bible it says all that stuff about going the extra mile. So I've been putting little sticky notes in my pocket as a reminder and throughout the day they remind me to do ARKs. (Ok, I got "ARKs" from Evan Almighty...but it's pretty good.)

And anyways, it feels cool. You all need to try it. At least for a day.
It will be like a chain. Trust me. Like the Starbucks chain at Christmas.

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Year 2008!!!

Happy New Year to everyone! This is the first post of the new year, and I just wanted to say that I hope by the end of the year, this blog will start to get settled. Happy New Year!