Soft-Drink Sell
Theme of the Week: The Touch that Transforms
Monday, January 26, 2009
 1 of 1
Key Bible Verse: "If you give even a cup of cold water to one of the least of these … you will surely be rewarded" (Matthew 10:42). Bonus Reading: Matthew 25:31-46
While working alone one Saturday I stepped outside for a break. I heard children playing beneath a tractor-trailer. One saw me, yelled, "There's the man," and started running. "Wait," I called. "Would you like something cold to drink?" Four or five little kids followed me into the plant where I opened the soft drink machine and gave one to each.
On Monday afternoon I heard a commotion in the lobby. Walking down the hallway, I heard one youngster ask the receptionist, "Where's the big man with the beard?" Turning the corner, I saw 16 kids waiting for the man with the key to the drink machine. By the end of the week, 35 unkempt, undisciplined, and often-hungry children, whose addicted parents left them to fend for themselves, were coming to my office every afternoon after school. I worked at my drafting table, surrounded by kids on the floor busily coloring or doing other crafts I'd brought.
Thus began the journey that would change my world. Ten years after I first reached out to the Cleveland Arms kids, I sold my share of the business to my partner and started Metro Inner City Sunday School. When the kids got older, we started youth groups and teen programs.
—Terry Lane in Today's Christian
My Response: Someone in my neighborhood I could reach out to with a kind act is ____.
Adapted from our sister publication Today's Christian (9-10/07).
Copyright © 2009 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
Click here for reprint information on Men of Integrity. 1 of 1
 share this page
Please make my life count, Lord, by helping to transform the lives of those who are hurting.
Men of Integrity
Connect with God | Transform my Mind | Live by His Power
Relate Better | Make an Impact
Home | Archives | Contact Us
 |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
Try an Issue of Men of Integrity
Free!
|
 |
|
No credit card required. Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery. Offer valid in U.S. only. Click here for International orders.
If you decide you want to keep Men of Integrity coming, honor your invoice for just $19.95 and receive five more issues, a full year in all. If not, simply write "cancel" across the invoice and return it. The trial issue is yours to keep, regardless.
Give Men of Integrity as a gift
Buy 1 gift subscription, get 1 FREE!
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 |
| |
|
RSS Feed
