A Preacher’s Heavenly Dream
Posted by Bob Johnson on July 16, 2008
A preacher likes nothing better than to have a message hit home. And what constitutes “hit home?” NOT simply to have people say, “I enjoyed your sermon” as they leave, although that is certainly nice. But rather to have people take some sort of action that shows “they got it.” Three responses I received this week indicated that people were really processing the material in my “Do No Harm” sermon (available here.) One e-mail I received indicated that this person’s Sunday School class had really dug into the material about doing no harm. Another person wrote to me and indicated she wanted to help Chapelwood become more “environmentally friendly,” that is, to do no harm (at least LESS harm) to the Creation. But it was the third response that really tickled my homiletical fancy!
Our mid-high youth director, Kathleen C. came up with an idea for the youth group to do “Random Acts of Kindness.” Three groups of mid-high youth were each given $20 and 1 hour to bless as many people as they could in any way they wanted. This serving event allowed them to be creative and showed them that is took very little time and money to serve God and others. Here’s a sampling of what they did…
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Passed out water and crackers to homeless people at a bus stop.
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Made cards and bought toys from the 99 cent store and gave them to the Children’s Wing at a Hospital.
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Bought pet food and toys and took them to a Pet Shelter and got to pick out what pets to give them to.
Way to go kids!! As Jackie Gleason used to say, “How SWEEEEET it is!”
