Susie and Starbucks.....

Susie was going through the drive thru at Starbucks this morning and felt led to take care of the young lady behind her.....wow!...wouldn't that be cool to receive...what did she think?...blessed I hope...it is an honor to share and bless others......

Rache says....we need to be givers and receivers.....

A couple of days ago Rachel tried to hand some one she felt led to give a paper Lincoln to and they would not receive or accept it from her.....one thing we need to remember is that in addition to being generous givers it is important that we be receivers when the opportunity is in front of us....how can we give someone the privilege of being a blessing if we are unwilling to accept their gift.....have a greatful heart! and say thank you!...one thing we could do in this instance would be to simply if you do not want to accept it please pass it along to someone else...'pay it forward'...thanks Rachel! continue to seek opportunities to give to others....

Kramer in Indy

Kramer gave his 5 today to a man in Indianapolis whom he felt led to
bless...he left Wednesday to go to the national FFA convention
there....said he got to skate in 4 states Wed. as well....Kramer way
to bless him...

Coop

Again yesterday, Cooper bought lunch for someone who did not have any
funds....I do not feel this has anything to do with our $5 deal as he
has a generous heart and probably has done this a few times before and
we did not know about it....Cooper, we are proud of you ...

Q

Quincy,put her 5 inside a sack when someone bought something at the store she works at...they will have a surprise and be blessed when they get home....cool Quincy...that is thoughtful....

Cooper

Yesterday Copper bought lunch for one of the girls that he works with
that did not have any money at the time...Thanks Cooper you were a
blessing....

be careful.....

all of us need to remember to be careful and wise when we are approached by others we may not know....good to have friends with us but unfortunately in the world today we need to think about these things, we cannot trust everybody....the Lord will protect us but we must be make good decisions and be careful.....please do so.....

hannah blessed.....

Hannah was at the car wash today washing her own car with a couple of her friends who had walked away for a short time....up came a man on a bicycle that she began talking to and she felt led to bless him with her $5 for the week...she said he almost cried...thanks sweetheart for being a blessing to someone you did not know......you are a treasure....

blessback...why?

I pray that each of us truly get the vision that the Lord has placed in my heart...I have been following Elevation Church (http://www.elevationchurch.org/) in Charlotte, NC for a year or so and a week ago they began a capital campaign and a new series titled Dominate, with the intention to dominate Charlotte with their vision, "So that people far from God will be filled with life in Christ."...therefore they decided to give away $40,000 (their average offering each week) to their congregation in envelopes in amounts of $5, $10, $20, $50, or even $100...1 envelope in each experience contained $1000...they did not take an offering this week...the instruction to each and every individual (children included) in attendance was to take an envelope and bless someone with the enclosed money...they were not allowed to use the money on themselves nor could they give it back to the church...they were then asked to share their experiences at http://www.blessbackproject.com/ ....you can read the stories there....

...anyway this got me to thinking about my own family and how blessed we are...I asked Susie what she thought about giving each of our 6 children (we are both doing this as well) $5 each week to use to bless someone in some way...she said, "wonderful, go for it"...we hope to all be creative and think about what we each can do....then share those stories here of what we do with the $5 the Lord has entrusted to us to bless others in His name...let the fun begin...my prayer is that each of us would catch a glimpse of how generous and loving the Lord desires for us to be.....how He wants us to genuinely be a blessing to others...not only with money but with our time, our hearts, our words, our deeds, etc....I pray we will be bold and not step back but go forward when the Lord prompts us to share...looking for all of us to continually think of and be reminded of opportunities that we have to be a blessing...who knows, maybe our children or even their parents (my wife and I) will add to their weekly blessing dollars and give even more...I am excited to see what will transpire in each of our hearts...I am interested to see what each of them hear when asked why and they simply say we want to bless you because Jesus has blessed us...We started last night by giving my 17 year old his $5, he left early this morning on a 5 day trip with the school...What will he do?..Who will my college kids bless?..I handed one of my college age girls her $5 this evening...what will she do?..who will my 20 year old bless?..my 16 year old?..each of us?