Ways to Show the Love of Jesus

• Pay or reduce the bill for the person behind you in any line (DVD rental, grocery, post office, fast food, car wash, copy shop, Starbucks)
• Vacuum out patrons’ cars at an automatic car wash – take quarters.
• Get the kids and sponsor a free dog wash in your neighborhood!
• Do the neighbors’ yard work; plant flowers, mow grass, trim shrubs.
• Take your neighbor’s trash to the curb and bring it back afterwards.
• Wash windshields for coworkers during your lunch hour.
• Take someone or a family out for ice cream.
• Bring a small gift basket of fruit and goodies to a neighbor who needs a boost.
• Buy multi-packs of chewing gum, breath mints, or Jelly Belly’s at a discount store or warehouse club, then pass out the individual packs as you see people during the week who look like they need a smile.
• Surprise neighbors who don’t usually get the paper with a free one.
• Give a pack of diapers to a new parent.
• MEN: Visit a barber shop and pay for the haircut of the person in the chair next to you.
• WOMEN: Next time you’re at the nail salon, see what color polish the person next to you likes and buy a bottle for them to take home.
• Tip your server in a BIG WAY (30% or more) and ask if there is anything you can pray for them.
• Buy some small good-smelling bottles of lotion and give them out at a local nursing home.
• Buy a bouquet of flowers or potted plant at the grocery store and give them away.
• Send a bouquet of flowers to an out-of-town friend or person at work with a love note from God (and you!)
• Give bubbles for a family with little kids.
• Visit a local nursing home or senior apartment complex and offer a small gesture of kindness (homemade art from the kids, hand lotion, tissues, flowers) and a listening ear. Bring the kids!
• Write a handwritten note to someone you haven’t seen in a while and tell them something you appreciate about them.
• Identify someone to take to lunch and just listen (and pick up the bill).
• Contact someone who has done something significant in your life and thank them.
• Give up an hour of your favorite TV show to serve someone instead.
• Pray for your neighborhood. Walk around your neighborhood, silently praying God’s blessing for the people who live in the houses you pass.
• Compliment 5 people on a character quality you see in them this week.