Affect the Ripple Effect

During a Fuel Mission week twenty 11-14 year olds banded together to do some work. Throughout the week we talked about the Ripple Effect:

You never know how many people you can affect through simple service projects. When organizing canned goods at a food pantry, or weeding a parking lot you rarely see any type of cool results in people's lives. But just because you cannot see it happen doesn't mean it is not happening. By doing these menial chores we saved these charitable organizations great amounts of time and money. The result of saving them time and money is opening more doors for them to help people. The people they help the lives are changed.
On top of the obvious lives these organizations help, we talked about how people see what you do. There is a famous tv commercial that shows a chain of good deeds that come full circle and helps the person that started with the first good deed. When others see young people giving of their precious summer days, they realize they should be doing good things as well. The more that happens, the more that happens. You will never full realize (until heaven) the reach you had with a simple, small good deed.
So how do we do good deeds to achieve maximum results? We use the gifts we have in ways to serve and love others. Some suggested helping others with homework, other with basketball or reading. Even things a simple as listening to others can used for good. Our gifts and abilities should be the rock we cast into the still waters of this earth. So throw away