Sunday, November 15, 2009

This is Beautiful Day "Daily Fuel" in action. Over 1200 lunches went out

We asked WestGaters to bring 500 lunches... they brought over 1200!!!

Amazing stories of people having lunch and converstations happening.

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Saturday, November 14, 2009

This is one of the formal shots from the dance party. This guy was so glad to be there & to hv the pic.

At the Medeivel Dance Party for disabled kids there were characters (king, queen, prince and princess) that took pictures with kids and groups of people. This young guy was so proud of his picture it was cool to see.

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I was at the Beautiful Day Better Homes site and saw this kid in a serve shirt

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Friday, November 13, 2009

Don't forget about the Beautiful Day blood drive tomorrow. Even young people can give

This is Sam Talbert he is 16 and needed a photo ID and a parent consent form. We need to hit 261 donors... So far we have had 108. Tomorrow the blood bank will be open at WestGate from 9-2.... Come in an give blood... It's easy!!

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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Beautiful Day medieval "Dance Party" set up.

Check out this video on YouTube:


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Beautiful Day Blood Drive this Saturday at WestGate. If you have blood show up!!!

His is Kerry and Terry Spidell from WestGate church... having just donated blood for Beautiful Day. The record for donations is 260... we are currently at 108... with one more full day this Saturday November 14th at WestGate church from 9-3. You can show up and donate... or register at www.bbr.org

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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

I'm out at the Beautiful Day Parks and Trails project. Students from High Schools all over the county serving the city together

It's great to see how many students are out serving today. They come from many different High School... Serving and blessing the city.

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Monday, November 9, 2009

Beautiful Day's Adopt-a-Hero Story

I just got this email from some who just did Beautiful Day's Adopt-a-Hero. It was a great experience for her and I thought I'd share it with you.

If you have a Beautiful Day story... send it in!!


Jon,

I just did my first Beautiful Day project and I wanted to tell someone about it. I signed up for Adopt-a-Hero, and was assigned to bake some goodies for the San Jose Police Department. I was told that I could deliver the dessert at any point during the week, and since I’m working from home nowadays and don’t have much time to bake during the week, I baked homemade chocolate chip cookies (from scratch) last night, warmed them up this afternoon, and delivered them to the SJPD just a few minutes ago.

Isn’t it amazing how God works? I put on my Beautiful Day shirt and drove to the SJPD (I had just warmed up the cookies, so you could smell the melted chocolate chips wafting in the air). I wasn’t sure where to go, but I saw a uniformed police officer standing by a door and told him, “Excuse me, I have some cookies to drop off for the Police Department.” I kid you not – the expression on the man’s face completely changed from one of stoic professionalism to complete disbelief. He asked me, “Seriously? How nice of you! Why?” I answered, “Well, I’m with an organization called Beautiful Day, a consortium of churches that is focusing on doing outreach to our community this week. I’m on a project that reaches out to law enforcement, firemen, and the like by delivering them dessert.” The man still looked shocked, but in a good way. J He asked me again, “What is the name of the organization you’re with?” And again, I said, “Beautiful Day,” and explained about the program and the whole compassionate outreach thing.

You could tell that the man was touched. He just couldn’t seem to believe that a complete stranger would do something so kind.

The great thing about it all is that there were lots of other people in the room, so they heard the exchange between me and the officer as well. I never got his name – and he never asked mine – but that’s not really the point, is it?
I like this “compassion unleashed” thing.

Sunday, November 1, 2009

There were some rough peeps that came down my block today. By chance I got this picture of them.

Don't be fooled by the innocence of Peeps... they come from a sketchy part of town.

You've been warned!!

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