Try This: Cover a Library Patron’s Overdue-Book Fees

Looking for a great way to reach out to bibliophiles in your community? Pay their library fines. Leave cash at the front desk in your local library, and ask the clerk to use it for the next patrons who owe fines. Leave connection cards in envelopes for them, so they can know why the fine was paid.

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Ryan Kwon: Nothing to Prove

“We’re so accustomed to the church being a noun. I want our bias to be action-oriented, and a movement that goes outward.”

Sending Over Seating: West Ridge Church Is Set to Launch Its 125th Church

West Ridge focuses on raising up the next generation from within the church to send out and either be church planters or serve as part of a church planting team.

Steward Your Riches

There are three things that make the average American rich: choice, privacy and opportunity.