Subscribe to the NetworkDo Something Envelope Challenge List
Josh on November 8th, 2009
As students left the the Do Something service this weekend, we gave them a sealed envelope with 30 pieces of paper in it – different challenges to pull out and take on this month. Here’s some of the list:
Post a status on facebook.com with a statistic involving the poverty of the world. Read the TOMS shoes story www.tomsshoes.com and think about what you could start to help people in need. Pick up trash after you eat lunch every day this week to serve the custodians at your school. Go through some park/school/house trashcans and look for bottles/cans to recycle and raise money to donate. Write Romans 12:2 on your mirror to read everyday when you wake up. Iron-on or use a permanent marker to write statistics on an old T-shirt and wear it around your school. Write Matthew 25:40 on a Post-It note and put it on your binder. Babysit for a single mom to give her some quiet time. Sit with someone sitting alone at lunch and be friends with them. Sit with someone sitting alone at church this weekend. Take a minute and pray for someone close to you in need. Light a birthday candle, and pray for a need until the candle burns out. Open every door for every person you can this week. Ask your mom how you can help with dinner, set the table without being asked. Help your little brother or sister with their homework, then take them out for frozen yogurt. Go to Isaiah House (homeless shelter once a month through HSM) and have conversations with widowed women and their children. Collect your loose change around the house and donate it. Wash someone’s car for them. No Charge! Talk with someone who is struggling emotionally and provide them with words of comfort. Write a letter to a soldier and send it to www.soldiersangels.com. Help someone who dropped their books at school, pick them up. Sign up for the next Compton work day which is January 23rd. Fast for a day. When you get hungry, think of those who go multiple days in hunger. Create a sign to remind yourself to turn off the water while brushing your teeth; it can save up to 2 gallons of water a day. Buy reusable bags to give out in your neighborhood to eliminate the usage of plastic bags. Collect canned goods in your house and donate them to the HSM food drive next weekend. Collect 100 canned goods in your neighborhood and donate them to the HSM food drive next weekend. Be creative! Create a bumper sticker for your car that raises awareness of poverty or encourages others to “Do Something” Spend an hour researching poverty on wikipedia.com to educate yourself on the strife our world faces today. Search www.youtube.com for compassionate or inspiring videos and post them on Facebook. Turn off your phone for a day, and use the quiet to reflect on how much we have and how little so many others have. What will you do about it? Go through your closet and donate clothes you don’t wear anymore to the HSM clothing drive. Our goal is 400 people contribute pieces! Invite someone to church with you and ask them to join you in doing something. Give your weekly allowance to someone who needs money for lunch at school.
JG
Josh, thank you so much for sharing this idea. I love how tactile and real it is. How are you planning on following up with students on this.