The A.R.K. Challenge

Just before Christmas break, our Children's Pastor, Amy Bales, issued an Acts of Random Kindness Challenge (ARK) to the elementary students in our school.

One of the challenges was hospital/nursing home visitation. Our 6th grade son, Joe, got to do that recently with Pastor Claude Cowan of Eastpoint Family Church.

It's great to encourage people to step outside of themselves and into someone else's world. We get so caught up in our jobs, homework, sports practices, hobbies, activities, church life, family life, that it's good to be re-directed once in a while to caring for others. Sometimes it takes an intentional assignment to get us going.

In John chapter 9, Jesus made this statement to his disciples, "We need to be energetically at work for the One who sent me here, working while the sun shines (while we're alive)."

You know, the Bible is God's "assignment book" to us. We should read it. Memorize it. Know what our assignments are. Do it. Get going.