• Hold the door for someone.
• Help someone load their groceries.
• Give someone a compliment.
• Return someone else’s shopping cart.
• Say “Have a great day” to a stranger
• Offer an umbrella to someone in the rain.
• Stand up for someone being bullied.
• Let someone go in front of you in line.
• Sit with someone who is new or alone at a school lunch table.
• Give someone your seat on the bus, train, church, etc.
• Give a teacher or health care worker a thank you note.
• Put kind words on a community bulletin board.
• Talk with someone you see often, but don’t generally chat with.
• Offer to take a group photo for someone.
• Call someone you haven’t spoken to in a while.
• Make a card for someone in a nursing facility.
• Offer to take someone’s dog for a walk.
• Make a thank you sign for sanitation workers.
• Say hello to someone who looks sad.
• Leave a nice note tucked in a library book.
• Write a thank you note for your letter carrier.
• Leave a note of affirmation in a public restroom.
• Donate clothing or toys.
• Write positive messages on a sidewalk.
• Smile at everyone you see today.
• Offer to take out a neighbor’s trash.
• Go for a walk or hike and smile and greet everyone you pass.
• Offer to rake a neighbor’s leaves.
• Bake some treats and deliver them to the fire or police station as a thank you.
• Paint a kind message on a small rock and leave it along a walking trail.
• Grab your family or a friend and stand outside of a store for an hour holding the door for everyone.
• Pray. Pray for someone you might not generally pray for, pray for an “enemy”, pray for our community.

At Hopewell

• Pick up a packet of Christmas cards in the Hopewell lobby and write a message to be sent to those in prison.
• Write a note to one of Hopewell’s Beyond the Walls mission partners and leave it in the basket in the lobby.
• Donate a new or gently used coat to the Wesley Wagon in the lobby. Coats will go to local organizations for distribution to the community.