AOK Shoutouts Share & Celebrate Kindness

Compassionate Ministries of Lima hosts annual community Easter dinner providing meals to 400+ people and spreading love and Jesus' message of salvation

ACT OF KINDNESS ALERT - The Met Downtown Lima,OH At dinner tonight with friends. My lovely wife Lisa Battles orders the haddock. Our hostess with the mostest, Lydia Bassett comes back to let Lisa know the haddock was sold out, so my wife switched to the Cajun shrimp. Here is where the KINDNESS goes down....the cook, asks Lydia to check with Lisa to see if she had originally ordered fish for Lent because the Cajun shrimp had sausage with it. (Non Lent approved) That is very cool and very kind of the staff to be that concerned about a customer. Kudos for looking out for my wife, that was definitely an Act of Kindness in my book. Respect ! The Met is lucky to have caring, friendly staff like Lydia Bassett and Kayla Cavanaugh. Thanks guys, you rock !

A friend set up a dinner for 10 former co-workers, just because.... This is a great act of kindness, where you call, text or email people you haven't seen in a while to reconnect, share some laughs and catch up. Everyone loved it and appreciated the time together.

I started volunteering this spring to do videography for local high school girls flag football teams. It's a win-win: I get to watch football from the sidelines and the students, parents, and schools love rewatching and sharing videos of their teams best plays. Plus, it's the first ever season for almost all of these schools, so I hope they encourage other girls to pick up flag football too.

My husband fixed my sister-in-laws mower and mowed for her while she was at work.

My husband and son mowed my mother in law’s property at Indian Lake.

My son mowed his grandma’s property today.

1. Our neighbor needed help paying her rent so we gave her the money to get caught up. She was concerned about paying it back so we told her to help somebody else in the future. 2. On my neighborhood walks, I take a bag with me to pick up trash. It’s something anyone can do and it makes the neighborhood look better. 3. Whenever I go to the store, I try to find someone in the parking lot that’s almost done loading their groceries into their car and offer to take the cart for them. They appreciate it and I don’t have to wrestle with the carts inside the store. Bonus—if it has a wonky wheel I can easily trade it when I get inside.

These two young boys helping us around the business as they learn the ropes.

Had knee surgery recently and went out with some friends to a Murder Mystery Dinner, a few days later. Since dinner was buffet style and I was hobbled with a cane, my friends let me stay at the table while they got me a salad, a plate of food, a slice of cheesecake and a beer. Great gesture from some great friends ! I appreciated it for sure.

This is my 3 year granddaughter Cecelia loves giving those little Jesus that day Jesus loves you to people and tell them Jesus loves you. Well, I found one in the back of the van today when we got to Aldi, so I gave it to Cecelia. While we are in the store, the older kids are talking to me about something , little miss Cecelia starts walking up to this lady. I try and call her back before realizing what she's doing. She hands this older lady this Jesus and says, " Jesus loves you!" The older lady said "you have no idea how much I needed that. You just made my day. Thank you so much!"

The Mobile Hope Food Pantry at Shawnee UMC served 154 families this morning (459 individuals). ❤

The Bath Interact club helped out Family Promise with their 10th annual Valentine's banquet! The kids helped set up the tables, serve the food, and even stayed later than originally planned to help tear down tables and chairs!

As my family was leaving the Mexican restaurant last night, we went to pay our bill and was informed the our 5 dinners were already paid for by a man who said " Enjoy family dinners as often as you can". Very nice !

Wife and daughter brought me home a Kramer portrait for my music room. It's always nice getting an unexpected gesture out of the blue. Kind thought, small act...that's the key ! Thank you !

I was leaving the physical therapy office , after a follow up with my knee surgeon. I was using my walker as instructed and was heading out the door. A kind lady noticed that a rug/floor mat was bunched up and she stopped me, while getting cup to straighten the mat out. I may have tripped, had she not warned me and fixed it. Simply being kind.

We live in the country so the snow blows very bad. My 67 year old dad drove his tractor to my house not only once, but twice this week to plow my long driveway so we could get in an out! It's a 10 min drive here and 10 min drive home, spending between 30-45 min here plowing! So thankful selfless acts like this especially in the negative temps.

Northland Community Church set up a community warming station on the north side, providing large groups of people food, warm beds, showers and warm clothes. Many people donated, cooked and just hung out and had fun. Excellent example of community coming together. Lasted all week with several groups helping from all over. God bless !

Man, stopped in for lunch today. These 2 people were "above and beyond" kind. Smiling, re-filling drinks, grabbing people's tray for them, telling everyone to have a good day as they left, welcoming everyone who came in....it was impressive! How impressive? So impressive that I had to call them together , take their photo and post it online ! Thanks, Susan and BB, for making my day watching you guys make everyone else's day with your friendly attitudes. Did I mention BB is 87 years young?

I was at Worship last night at the Remnant and lost my phone. I didn’t realize it until I got into my car so I had to go back in to try and find it. A girl saw me go back in the building and came to help me find it. We went back up to the 4th floor and she used her light on her phone and we found it under the chair I was sitting in. I thanked her and told her I appreciated her help and she said she’d want someone to help her if she lost something. ❤