AOK Shoutouts Share & Celebrate Kindness

Spent my afternoon today on Jay's Coneys staff, slaying some coneys & bringing a smile to faces. From about 11 AM to 1 PM we handed out free coneys at the Neighborhood Relief Thrift Store. We probably served out over 100 hotdogs.

My old Pastor from Lima. We have free lunch for kids in our community 18 and under all week at Hillsboro Global Methodist Church. We fed 50 kids today. We expect more as we go each day!

City road crew were replacing a gas line on our street. 90 degrees and these guys were monitoring traffic and running backhoes. I took them all a cooler full of ice and water. They were very appreciative and I am sure it hit the spot.

My husband wanted homemade strawberry pop tarts with Suters strawberries so I sent him to pick me some up. He decided our neighbors needed their own strawberries too- so he picked up a bucket for them also!

My son, Carter, is 11. He helped wash down tables, carried things outside, wiped down things that have been stored and needed a good cleaning, and made signs for a community share sale to “Take what you need, pay what you can.” He was skeptical about leaving the cash box outside unattended, using only an honor system, but he was so proud that no one had taken it that he was in his own bedroom looking for things to put outside to bless kids that come with their families. Kindness is contagious.

I blessed our mailman at work with chocolate chip cookies. 🍪

Today is National Donut Day so I picked up donuts 🍩 for my co-workers.

I was stuck in bumper to bumper stopped traffic on I75 yesterday. A semi was trying to get in the other lane and nobody would let him in. Once traffic started moving I waived him over.

A lady was trying to pull out of Dairy Queen this afternoon when traffic backed up. I stopped & waived her out.

Do Right Motorcycle Club raises money for an autistic child to get a service dog. Great job, DRMC ! Very kind

Wings and Rings raised over $6000 for donations to the West Ohio Food Bank. People helping people !

5 local high school students received scholarships on Wednesday at Lima Memorial Hospital that they will use to pursue careers in the medical field. Thank Lima Memorial Heath Systems

I blessed my friend with 2 cookies one she could keep but the other one she had to pay it forward and bless someone else! ❤

I picked up trash at the Walmart gas station.

Restoration House of Lima was set up outside Walmart East selling items. I told them I didn’t want to buy anything and gave them $20 towards the ministry they do in the Lima Community! ❤

The Mobile Hope Food pantry at Shawnee UMC was blessed with beautiful weather and 33 servants as we served 143 local families this morning. A huge thanks to our congregation for the support & to our grant from P&G for helping us to supplement today!

Hundreds of local veterans and their families gathered Saturday for the fifth annual Allen County Veterans Family Picnic, an event designed to celebrate military service while connecting attendees with resources available throughout the county. Hosted by the Allen County Veterans Services Commission, the picnic featured free meals, raffles, family-friendly activities and opportunities for veterans to learn about programs and services available to them.

Today at church, we had some new children attend. After the singing, kids are released from main service to go with the other kids and attend story hour. When this time came, you could see these new kids were shy and stayed in the main service. Some of the other kids noticed these new kids and came back and invited them to join. The new kids smiled and took off running with their new found friends. Quite touching !

Our pool had a a leak in the hose the neighbor (John Battles)came over seeing we had a problem fixing it he took the time to see if he had a fitting that would fix it it did help fix our leak working great now !!!!

My neighbor call me to the fence today with a Mother’s Day gift. He had made no bake chocolate almond cookies!!! He truly makes the BEST!!! Such a nice gift made my day.