Charity
Thanks for the guest post by Jonathan Curtis
My family and I live in a very small, very rural area. We are faced daily with other families who are in need thanks to the depressed economy and the shortage of jobs in our town. We knew we couldn’t sit around and do nothing, so we started a charity that allows residents of our town to contribute to those in need. We will accept almost any contribution—money, furniture, hand-me-down clothes, you name it. We coordinate donations primarily through email, and we allow anyone to drop off donations at our home or at our church. We are blown away on a regular basis by the generosity of our tiny little town. My husband and I like to say that everyone here recognized the need for something like our charity, but no one was quite sure how to orchestrate it. We were fortunate too in discovering Internet providers by Zip Code. While we don’t have many options for internet connection where we live, we were able to sign up for satellite internet to allow us to continue serving our community. We know the donations from our neighbors have blessed so many in need, and running this charity has ended up blessing us too. Who’d have known?
