How Can You Help If You Have No Money?

You’d like to be generous, but don’t have any money. You’d love to save the children in Mexico, build a school in India, drill water wells in Ethiopia, sponsor a widow in Sri Lanka and put shoes on all the orphans in Somalia.

However, you’ve got $27 in the bank and the rent’s due next Friday.

So, what can you do? Here are six ideas:

1. Volunteer your time!

You’ll be surprised the response you’ll get if you ask your church whether they need anybody to do any volunteer work. More than likely they have a long list of needs – ranging from somebody to sort and file the last 20 years of Sunday school and Vacation Bible School materials – to somebody who would paint the steeple, caulk the baptistery, teach the Golden Agers class, help drive the seventh graders to weekend events or “adopt” the church kitchen, agreeing to clean it up once a week.

Don’t have a church? Then call up one of these and ask if they need volunteers:
               The Salvation Army
               Goodwill Industries
               Your local food bank
               Your local animal shelter
               Your local nursing home
               Your local hospital
               The YMCA or Boys & Girls Club
               Your city’s park & recreation department

You may be astonished at the needs.

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