Logging your 'Hours of Kindness'

The essential idea behind the ‘Million Hours’ is one of encouragement!! Hope 08 aims to encourage you that everyone’s acts of simple kindness can build into a vast amount of blessing for our friends, neighbours, acquaintances and strangers! And as we begin to see the mounting hours of kindness, then we get our encouraged ourselves that God is indeed at work amongst not only fellow Christians, but amongst many other people of goodwill. We undertake these acts of kindness in the name of Jesus, and out of love for God – even if He is never named when we do them!

 

We think it will be wonderful to see how these acts of kindness and love will grow as the year develops! You can add your own examples of what you have done to help others in all sorts of practical ways, as often as you wish to log each new example on to this website! We trust that you will only submit real activities that fall within the overall category of ‘Acts of Kindness’, and satisfy our simple Protocol (see below)!

 

So, complete the survey form (click to view) and submit it on to our database here. It is best if you register with us on this website so that we can trace your contribution to the ‘Million Hours’, which will build across the whole nation. But don’t worry – we’ll not be on to you for any proof, justification, or follow up!.

 

The Protocol:

 

1: The Activities you submit must be to bless others with kindness, not yourself!

Eg: Not be a piece of gardening in your own back yard!

 

2: The Activities can be part and parcel of kind things you already do for others, or something new that you’ve started. Eg: Shopping for a housebound neighbour.

 

3: The Activities can be done on your own, or with others. If done as a part of a group then please simply log the total for you all. Eg: A car wash undertaken for free in your church car park.

 

4: The Activities should be in whole, not part, hours, and should not be rounded up by more than 10 minutes to the hour.

 

5: The Activities should be undertaken for free, no charge should have been made for what you did. Although expenses-only kind deeds are OK!

 

6:   The Activities can be pre-planned, or spontaneous, but need to have some substance to them! Eg: Smiling at people for an hour doesn’t really count!

 

That’s enough of the Guidelines! Start logging, and invite your friends to join in the fun!