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A.C.T.S. of Kindness

June 17, 2013 by Maureen Spell 35 Comments

A.C.T.S.

One of the thing I appreciate about our church family is that they encourage our kids along with their families to find ways to serve others. Not only do they encourage, they plan dates to gather and work together on projects. Next week my older two children will be spending a week with over 100 youth doing service projects for our community. This Thursday my younger children and other families from our church will be participating in a Weed-a-Thon, where they will be weeding, trimming, pruning and doing other gardening tasks. The first recipient will be my mother-in-law! There are several other residences lined up for the summer. (I was tempted to add my house to the list but my children tell me I don’t qualify–lol.)

painting flower pots

In order to prepare, all the kids designed flower pots and made bird feeders as gifts for the homes they will be serving this summer. They are so excited to work and help others! (Why yes, my daughter always paints while wearing a dress! 😉 )

The Imagination Station Giveaway

This summer Adventures in Odyssey is encouraging kids to use their imagination to think up ways to impact their world. When I was younger I loved to listen to Adventures in Odyssey stories on the radio. AIO has recently expanded to books and devotionals—including The Imagination Station series, a fast-growing line of early chapter readers. You can check them out by downloading a FREE e-book of Imagination Station #1: Voyage with the Vikings!

Adventures in Odyssey encourages kids to write their OWN stories, as they join in ACTS: A Call to Serve! AIO is helping children use their imaginations to serve their family, community, and world this summer—maybe by sending a care package to a missionary or baking cookies for the local fire department. Check out www.whitsend.org/acts  for details and a chance to win fabulous prizes, including a mission trip with a parent to Costa Rica! More important than prizes are the stories your child will tell about the creative ways they served others, and how they grew as a result. And what they come up with really might change the world! An ACTS “Summer of Service” kit, available for download here: A.C.T.S. Summer of Service Kit.

As a way of giving back to you, AIO is letting me give away The Imagination Station books 1-3 to one of you! My daughter has read almost all of these books and loves them!  See the Rafflecopter widget below to enter.
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  1. linda says

    June 17, 2013 at 9:56 am

    My kids planted a flower garden at the nursing home with Nana. We have helped clean the church inside and outside.

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  2. Michelle says

    June 17, 2013 at 10:56 am

    We have sadly never done a family service project. I really want to start doing them but am not really sure where to start. Our church does not organize those kinds of events. Looking forward to doing some in the future.

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  3. Michelle says

    June 17, 2013 at 11:01 am

    What an awesome package

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  4. summer says

    June 17, 2013 at 11:24 am

    Our kids helped us serve after a tornado hit our community. They wrote letters and cards of encouragement that we included in food boxes that were distributed to families across our city.

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  5. MC says

    June 17, 2013 at 12:17 pm

    My kids are still very young but we do a Backyard Bible Club at our house with the neighborhood kids each summer and have had the kids help us when our church has had work projects. Excited to seize opportunities as they get just a little bit older 🙂

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  6. Wendi says

    June 17, 2013 at 12:37 pm

    We are so blessed to be able to do so many service activities with our church. A few current ones are helping distribute local food to local families that could use fresh produce for their families; making lunches for the homeless every month and then taking the lunches the next morning downtown and passing them out, along with clothing and toiletries and then spending time talking with the men and women and showing them that someone cares and wants to talk with them.

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  7. Kimberly says

    June 17, 2013 at 12:37 pm

    would love to win this for my boys 🙂

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  8. zekesmom10 says

    June 17, 2013 at 1:06 pm

    I have not done any service acts with my kids. It has been on my heart for a while now and since my aspie turned 8, I am thinking he may be able to do something helpful with the family.

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  9. Rebekah Kuriakose says

    June 17, 2013 at 2:42 pm

    We haven’t done official service yet. I have wanted too, but they were too young. We are getting older now and plan to as God allows. We do often help at church events by setting up or cleaning afterward without being asked to and try to find ways we can be a blessing such as that right now.

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  10. Cheryl Baranski says

    June 17, 2013 at 4:17 pm

    My boys do community service with the scouts.
    Two years ago as a family we gave back to our community
    for over two weeks. A tornado came through our town hard.
    We gave up doing our home school book works for over
    two weeks to go out and service. We helped to provide a fresh
    meal for those in need. Helped get them some groceries, clothing and
    other items needed. We spend over 12 hours a day at the church up the
    road from us that was a relief center.
    I think this time especially taught us all what it is like
    to serve your community.
    In face I just dropped one of my sons off at an elderly lady’s house
    from church so he could clean up her yard from a storm this past weekend.

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  11. Adrienne says

    June 17, 2013 at 7:52 pm

    Who doesn’t paint in a dress? 😉 Serving is something I really want to work on with the kids. We don’t get involved enough in our community. I am hoping that will change.

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  12. Jenny K. says

    June 17, 2013 at 11:25 pm

    We don’t serve as much as we should.
    My kids & I did help others from our church clean up a handicapped mans yard. The kids had to help rake , weed , clean up trash & sticks while the adults did the mowing & other major yard work. All of the youth involved did a great job & were rewarded by the man with pizza from Pizza Hut & a ride in his fancy golf cart! The look on the man’s face when he saw how many kids showed up to help was worth all the hard work we did that day. He just couldn’t believe that kids would care or want to help.

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  13. Belinda says

    June 18, 2013 at 1:43 am

    Thanks for letting me enter the contest.

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  14. Jenna DeMaria says

    June 18, 2013 at 8:24 am

    We served at a local summer camp for underprivileged kids. My little ones did some brush clean up with dad and my oldest daughter and I cleaned bathrooms and showers.

    Reply
  15. Michelle @Adventures in Home Education says

    June 18, 2013 at 8:43 am

    Our favorite way to serve is to participate in our annual keep the city clean day!

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  16. Jessica A. says

    June 18, 2013 at 8:56 am

    As a family we have gone to different homes and prayed for people. We have helped different indivudals with whatever need they have had like mow their lawn, bringing soup when they have felt sick, driving them to their eye appointment, etc.

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  17. Hillary Gould says

    June 18, 2013 at 9:24 am

    I encourage my children to help the elderly people in our day-to-day lives with loading groceries and such. We also have an elderly lady in our neighborhood that we visit and help her in any way that we can. We also take food to the local food bank and deliver thank you cards to our local community helpers (police, ambulance, firefighters, etc). “Easy things,” but my children enjoy these little acts of service…hope this will encourage them to do more as they grow.

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  18. Kala says

    June 18, 2013 at 10:49 am

    Sadly we have not served as much as we should. The last thing we’ve done was help gather supplies for a former church member who moved to be missionaries in Canada. My kids thought of it all on their own…love their big hearts!

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  19. hayley says

    June 18, 2013 at 11:40 am

    i’m excited to start getting your newsletter and read your blog!

    Reply
  20. Jenny says

    June 18, 2013 at 2:21 pm

    My boys are 7 and 3 and this blog post has me inspired to look for ways we might serve together as a family. One small act that we do from time to time is to pick up pine cones at our sweet elderly neighbor’s house. We enjoy it more than looking at it like an act of service though:)

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  21. Coby says

    June 18, 2013 at 5:08 pm

    I have 6 year-old twin boys and a 3 year-old son. One thing we love to do is Operation Christmas Child. We also made dinner for some sweet neighbors after the wife had surgery to remove her kidney. My hope is to inspire my children to serve in any way they can – whether in a small way or a big way!

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  22. Mindy says

    June 18, 2013 at 8:49 pm

    We have done Operation Christmas Child the last few years and have purchased goats and chickens through Samaritan’s Purse. I would love for my family to do more though. My 2 oldest (4 & 7 )are old enough to understand and do more at this point. Sitting down and discussing ways to serve as a family, and doing it!, have been added to our summer bucket list 🙂

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  23. Shana R. says

    June 19, 2013 at 2:10 pm

    We have never done a family service project but would love to someday.

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  24. Judith Martinez says

    June 19, 2013 at 6:24 pm

    We’ve volunteered as a family at our church’s food pantry ministry. Usually just my teens go on their own though.

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  25. Mabel says

    June 20, 2013 at 12:11 am

    We have done any acts of kindness as a family yet. My boys are getting old enough, that I hope to do something as a family soon.

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  26. Shaena F. says

    June 20, 2013 at 12:14 am

    Our family worked with several other families, to put together some weekend snack bags for a local charity, for children to have food on the weekends, during the school year.

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  27. Jeniver says

    June 20, 2013 at 12:16 am

    We bake cookies and make exam kits for college students.

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  28. Courtney says

    June 20, 2013 at 12:36 am

    Our family likes to serve with our church over Thanksgiving serving homeless men, women and children that are bussed in from all across the town.

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  29. Kelly Schmidt says

    June 20, 2013 at 12:52 am

    Do projects for a homeless shelter around Thanksgiving. Volunteer at a pregnancy crisis center

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  30. Nicole H says

    June 20, 2013 at 1:22 am

    My kids love helping with Operation Shoebox every November!

    Reply
  31. Kelli says

    June 20, 2013 at 5:02 am

    We have been donating new and used items to our local pregnancy center.

    Reply
  32. Rachel Dow says

    June 20, 2013 at 7:22 am

    Thank you for this offer to win! Love A.I.O. and your blog.. what a blessing!

    Reply
  33. Theresa says

    June 20, 2013 at 8:01 am

    We cook and serve lunch at a rescue mission every Thursday. Sometimes the ends of the earth are around the corner…..

    Reply
  34. StephJem P says

    June 20, 2013 at 12:26 pm

    A few years ago our family went to Cherokee, NC to help with a VBS.

    Reply
  35. Jennifer says

    June 20, 2013 at 5:50 pm

    I haven’t gotten the kids into service projects, but they help me make meals for people and they are explained what we as parents do to serve.

    Reply

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