My mother helping set up the diaper table.
Katy, Melody and mom with Hudson and Sissy in the stroller
Today was a blast!!!!!!! About 11 of us met at a WIC office in the mid-cities area, loaded down with about 3000 diapers, tons of packs of wipes(thank you Gateway Church for amazing generosity). Each wipe pack had a cd of Robert Morris' testimony on it. We set up a table that said Free Wipes and Diapers. The traffic flow was pretty slow so several of us loaded up Hudson and Sissy(my neice) in the double stroller that God blessed my sister with yesterday for free, grabbed diapers and wipes and walked over to the low income apartment complex. We began knocking on doors. It was so fun and I totally cracked up at Katy(my youngest sister). The first door she knocked on , a lady answered and Katy sweetly asked "Do any babies live here?" HA! The poor lady had a look on her face like, why do you want to know and why should I tell you!! :)
So, we started asking "Could you use some free diapers and wipes?" That worked well. People were pointing us to apartment doors of people they knew had babies. After a while, we loaded all the supplies up and moved to a public health dept. Mom and I took a bunch of diapers and wipes to the laundromat across the street. Jack-pot. People were so surprised and happy. They all wanted to take some to a grandbaby, neice or nephew, or neighbor who had a baby. We were glad to hand them out.
We had the best time and loved seeing the surprise on people's faces when we just handed them the free goodies, no strings attached. One young woman asked us, rather harshly I might add, "Why are you giving free diapers?" We told her we just wanted to bless people who needed them.
So, get your copy of The Outward Focused Life, steal an idea or make up your own, and get out there. It is soooooo much fun. Write me and tell me what you did!
Outward-Focused Life, The: Becoming a Servant in a Serve-Me World by Dave Workman
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