So my mom went to church yesterday, and surprise! The congregation was told that “an anonymous donor” had donated a sum of money to the church, and specified that everyone who came to church that day was to be given a $20 bill.
Each person’s $20 was to be used to do something nice for someone else: donated to a charity, used to buy a meal for a friend, etc.
My mom is giving hers back to the church with her next tithe.
What would you do with it?
Buy a Darwin fish bumper-sticker.
Toys for Tots
Make a homeless person’s day.
Heh heh.
Would you put it on YOUR bumper or someone else’s?
Drugs and hookers, man! Drugs and hookers!
I scream, you scream, we all pracitce VooDoo for Ice Cream!
Now is that for YOU or is it a gift?
Its both if you share the drugs with the hooker before you do her.
I think he meant drugs for hookers.
Mine. I’m not that mean…
I’d like to nominate Kalhoun for the “Best Human Being of the Day” award.
Donate to the Human Rights Campaign or an AIDS Charity.
::Wipes away tear from his eye::
The noblest man I ever knew. The noblest!
So, what’s $20 get you these days? A couple aspirin and a lap dance?
*Each person’s $20 was to be used to do something nice for someone else: donated to a charity, used to buy a meal for a friend, etc.
My mom is giving hers back to the church with her next tithe.*
Well, that’s not a bad thing to do, but it short-circuits the intent behind her getting it in the first place.
The Salvation Army is one thought.
Another is to emulate Kansas City’s “Secret Santa,” who goes around the poorer sections of town and hands out $100 bills to folks who look like they could use a bit of help. It’s hard to know how “deserving” the recipient is, and it’s on a smaller scale with just one twenty, but it could really brighten someone’s day.
My workplace gives food/toiletries to Mama’s Kitchen, which is a local charity that works with AIDS patients.
I’d probably take the $20 to the store and buy some canned/dry goods and drop the stuff into the donation box.
Is somebody maybe trying to pull a ‘parable of the talents’ stunt at the church? - maybe the bills are marked somehow and they are going to check how many come straight back into the offering plate (returning it with no profit - the equivalent of the foolish servant who buried it in a field).
Eh?
Hey, Gary T! Long time! And I agree with you about giving the loot back to the church. At the very least, I thought it showed a slight lack of imagination . . . But then, if it were me, I’d probably get all twirly trying to think of the best, most interesting thing to do, and it would still be sitting on my dresser a week from now.
And fascinating thought, Mangetout . . . But personally, I’d rather know how many people just shoved the $20 into their wallets and spent it on themselves, as if they found it on the sidewalk or received it in a Christmas card.
I think I’d anonymously use it towards the purchase of someone behind me in line at a store.
I see a lot of Giving Trees this time of year with wish lists from kids and adults who won’t be getting much for Christmas, if anything. That’s where my money would go, with the change going for food for the local food bank.
CJ
I vaguely remember reading about a church that did that. And it was a “parable of the talents” thing. They had a certain amount of time in which to do something with the money.
((And now I can’t find the article)) but I seem to remember some people either combining their money or doing something that made their $20 go pretty far.