30 Days of Giving Challenge

Do you have a giving heart or would you like to cultivate one?  Then join me in the 30 Day Giving Challenge!

I’ve participated in this challenge for the past four years and each year it blesses me in unspeakable ways!

Here’s the deal:

The challenge is to give something to someone everyday in November.  The gifts can be anything given to anyone…money, food, old clothes, crafts, your time, or even kind words.  I would love to have my readers join me in this challenge.  The way I see it, even if I don’t give something every single day it will probably would still be more than I normally would have given any other month…and that’s worth it, right?

You can follow my giving progress here on Embracing Grace but I’m interested in ways that you’re giving.  Feel free to comment on this post with posts you’ve written on your own blog about the challenge, links to tweets, or Facebook messages showing your giving.  If you’re sharing on social media feel free to use the hashtag #30Days2Give so myself and others can follow you, share your posts, and gather new ideas for ways to give.

Here are some of the gift ideas I’ve came up with so far:

• donate can goods to a local food pantry
• donate new toys in your gift drawer or closet to Toys for Tots
• make and deliver a meal to a grieving family or a family with a sick loved one
• donate a couple of hours of free babysitting for new parents
• rake up the leaves in an elderly friend’s house
• clean out your closets to donate to GoodWill or the Salvation Army
• give few more dollars in the plate at church
• prepare a gift for those new to the neighborhood
• send a letter and a box of non-perishable goodies to a soldier
• have the kids make and mail cards to missionaries
• put together a shoe box (or a couple) for Operation Christmas Child

So what do you say, are you up for the challenge?  I do hope you’ll join me!!