Projects funded by the Goodness Project to date:
Homeless Care Packs for the Car
Breakfast & Coffee for 1st Responders
1 Hope Christmas Gifts for Children
Gift Card for Postal Worker
Coffee for Children’s Teachers
Supplies for Grace House Ladies Class
College Student Exam Goodie Bags
Teacher Gift Bags for Local Elementary School
Dear Trinity Grace Members,
I wanted to make you aware of a new initiative that is being made possible by a generous member of Trinity Grace. We are calling this initiative “The Goodness Project.” This creative idea was inspired by a sermon delivered at Trinity Grace earlier this summer on the topic of goodness from our Fruit of the Spirit sermon series. You can listen to that particular sermon by visiting this link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/154104/12889666
“The Goodness Project” has been seeded with a $10,000 gift with the hope of encouraging our congregation to engage in acts of gracious goodness toward our neighbors and neighborhoods.
While we all know that goodness does not require monetary resources, we also understand that acts of goodness can be magnified as we steward resources well and intentionally use those resources to bless our friends and neighbors.
With that in mind, we are inviting members of Trinity Grace to get creative in how they might extend goodness to their neighbors or neighborhoods over the coming months. We want this generous gift to help you accomplish your creative ideas! We are inviting people to dream up random acts of goodness that might need some monetary resources to accomplish. Once you have an act of goodness in mind, you can then request resources to fund that initiative from “The Goodness Project” fund.
We anticipate releasing funds for random acts of goodness in amounts between $25-250.
Here are some ideas to get the gears turning and hopefully inspire ideas in your own mind:
Take a group of college students to lunch after church ($150)
Create and pass out homeless care bags ($200)
Coffee for teachers at your kids school ($50)
Neighborhood Cook Out Hosted by YOU ($250)
Holiday Party for Neighborhood Hosted by YOU ($250)
Gift card for service workers (trash man/postal person) - ($30)
Free lemonade stand in the neighborhood ($75)
Christmas gift card for needy families ($100)
Youth invites friends to their home for a pizza party ($100)
Gift card to a teen mom ($150)
We have set up an email address - goodness@trinitygracesa.org - where you can submit a proposal for your goodness initiative along with a specific request for funding. Upon approval, we will release those funds so that you can engage your random act of goodness and bring small tastes of blessing to our city. These funds can be used by both individuals or families.
We would love to see the following things with each request: a detailed description of your goodness initiative, when you plan to engage your goodness initiative, and how much it will cost to accomplish your goodness initiative.
We would also encourage people who participate to document their initiative with pictures or short stories of how they experienced others receiving blessing through this initiative.
As always, if you have any questions, you can reach out to Pastor Michael at michael@trinitygracesa.org.