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Shower Power
Most people take for granted the luxuries that they have, one of the most common being access
to hot or cold running water.
The “Bring It On Ministry”
in Bradenton, Florida has partnered with Bridge Church in order to help provide mobile showers, along with an A/C unit
and a heating system for
the water, to help their homeless population.
Most homeless people
don’t have access to a shower or running water, and these mobile showers really are going to change their lives in ways we, and they, never saw coming.
Bridge Church and associates are motivated to help the homeless feel hopeful and give them a sense of
Dorian & Disney
September 2019: a six-year-old boy vacation to Disney World in Orlando, named Jermaine Bell had been saving Florida, for his seventh birthday. Instead
direction that things are just going to get better from there.
“Our vision for [the] showers is that it gives people an opportunity to feel good, find joy and find purpose,” said Melinda Zarzycki-Harris of the Bring It On Ministry organization according to an article published by
Spectrum News 9. Working together,
the church and ministry organization raised over $25,000 for the mobile showers, which were set to
come out in October.
“We will put it [the mobile
showers] where it’s most needed in our community,” Zarzycki-Harris said in an article published on the website of ABC7 WWSB. “We are
ready to go where we are sent.”
were going to, and because he wanted to “live to give,” as he told South Carolina’s WJBF-TV.
On the Sunday of Bell’s seventh birthday, he received—not coincidentally—one of the biggest birthday surprises ever. Cast members from Disney showed up to his front door and offered him a VIP, all-expenses- paid trip to the happiest place on Earth.
Additionally, a short time later on Twitter, Delta Airlines offered him airfare to Disney World. They stated that someone as amazing as him deserves “a fairy godmother,” hinting not-so-subtly that they would love to provide airfare for him to travel to Disney. His act of kindness was truly remarkable and deserves much recognition.
Fortunately, both Disney and Delta Airlinesseemtohavethiscoveredfor one altruistic seven-year-old. They are very right to do so, because Bell—and other people like him—are truly an inspiration to us all.
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up money for an entire year to go on a
of using that money to buy tickets, he used his savings to open a hot dog stand. He had seen evacuees from Hurricane Dorian leaving South Carolina when he was visiting his grandmother. Instead of selling the hot dogs to earn his savings back, he gave them out for free, along with a bottle of water. Although he knew it would take another year or so to save up more money for a trip to Disney, he still decided he would open the hot dog stand. He did this purely because he wanted people to have some food to enjoy the ride to the place they