Fatkid
New Member
"Random Act of Kindness, Senseless Act of Beauty"
Hi Officers and all guildies:
I've been sitting on this idea for a Redeemed Social Nite/Guild Outreach for awhile and always thot about running it by u guys. Reading Brootis's post on fun guild activities kind of encouraged me to finally run this by u guys. I also did this survey and one of the questions was how many hours did I spend helping others in game/week (hope I don't compromise the survey too much.... hehe). I sheepishly put 1 hour and I know for a lot of weeks, even that is a bit of a stretch.
Anyways, my idea for a fun social nite/Redeemed Outreach: Hit Stormwind with a Random Acts of Kindness Blitz.
I think sometimes our guild tends to be a little bit too exclusive of ppl outside redeemed. We do great stuff for our guild members like raids, fun nights, bible studies, but we don't really promote much interaction with players outside our guild. Unless we do some pugs by ourselves or chat on channel 2, our interaction outside Redeemed is quite limited. Anyways, I hope my idea can change this a bit and be inclusive to all ppl. Jesus always went out to where the ppl were at, reached out to them and included anyone who was interested. Let's get our toons out there and show God's love to the ppl of Stonemaul. I want to pick a non raid nite, get a group of us and spam channel 2 in SW with a bunch of free services from Redeemed for 1-1.5 hours. In real life, we use our time, talents and treasure to serve God. Our toons have talents (professions, skills) and treasure (gold, weapons, gear), why not spend a little time to glorify God and serve others in a video game?
Most of our toons have something that can help others. These were some of the ideas I can think of:
- free tank ques for Hs/trolls (would be quite popular i think)
- free low dungeons runs for lowbies
- profession recipes, making high end gear for ppl free if they have mats
- free mage portals
- free gold (I'm willing to put up $500 gold and giving a free $10 gold to the first 50 ppl that open trade with me)
- give away some free gear, like blues/lower epics (ie justice point boots); show us u can use it and it's an upgrade and it's yours.
- hand out a bunch of free stuff that ppl can use like: bags, glyphs, potions (whatever your toon can do; I'm sure the opportunities are limitless).
That's just a few of the ideas I came up with. I'm sure u know your toons better and can think of many others things your toon can provide to others. I still remember when I first played on Stonemaul, I was lvling my priest and I didn't have alot of gold or anything. I was running down a lowbie road and a lvl 70 (max @ the time) just opened trade with me and gave me 50 gold for no apparant reason (50 gold was worth alot more that time). I thanked him and asked him why he did it. He said he didn't know and just felt like it. *LOL* I always remembered that Random Act of Kindness for some reason. We can do the same for others, we may never know what happens, but we always have the opportunity to plant a seed.
I shared this idea with Skrubs and he told me I should definitely go for it. In a nerdy way, sometimes it's easy to forget there's a real life person with emotions/needs behind that WoW character, we'd basically be serving and being a blessing to that person playing behind a computer somewhere in the world.
So, what do u guys think? If you're interested, plz let me know. If u have some reservations and I'm missing something, I'd like to hear it as well. I think if we can get 5-10 ppl who wants to do this, it'd be awesome. If guild leadership gives us the green light, let's pick a nite and blitz SW by being a blessing to others. It'll be a lot of fun
"Random Act of Kindness, Sensless Act of Beauty"
Hi Officers and all guildies:
I've been sitting on this idea for a Redeemed Social Nite/Guild Outreach for awhile and always thot about running it by u guys. Reading Brootis's post on fun guild activities kind of encouraged me to finally run this by u guys. I also did this survey and one of the questions was how many hours did I spend helping others in game/week (hope I don't compromise the survey too much.... hehe). I sheepishly put 1 hour and I know for a lot of weeks, even that is a bit of a stretch.
Anyways, my idea for a fun social nite/Redeemed Outreach: Hit Stormwind with a Random Acts of Kindness Blitz.
I think sometimes our guild tends to be a little bit too exclusive of ppl outside redeemed. We do great stuff for our guild members like raids, fun nights, bible studies, but we don't really promote much interaction with players outside our guild. Unless we do some pugs by ourselves or chat on channel 2, our interaction outside Redeemed is quite limited. Anyways, I hope my idea can change this a bit and be inclusive to all ppl. Jesus always went out to where the ppl were at, reached out to them and included anyone who was interested. Let's get our toons out there and show God's love to the ppl of Stonemaul. I want to pick a non raid nite, get a group of us and spam channel 2 in SW with a bunch of free services from Redeemed for 1-1.5 hours. In real life, we use our time, talents and treasure to serve God. Our toons have talents (professions, skills) and treasure (gold, weapons, gear), why not spend a little time to glorify God and serve others in a video game?
Most of our toons have something that can help others. These were some of the ideas I can think of:
- free tank ques for Hs/trolls (would be quite popular i think)
- free low dungeons runs for lowbies
- profession recipes, making high end gear for ppl free if they have mats
- free mage portals
- free gold (I'm willing to put up $500 gold and giving a free $10 gold to the first 50 ppl that open trade with me)
- give away some free gear, like blues/lower epics (ie justice point boots); show us u can use it and it's an upgrade and it's yours.
- hand out a bunch of free stuff that ppl can use like: bags, glyphs, potions (whatever your toon can do; I'm sure the opportunities are limitless).
That's just a few of the ideas I came up with. I'm sure u know your toons better and can think of many others things your toon can provide to others. I still remember when I first played on Stonemaul, I was lvling my priest and I didn't have alot of gold or anything. I was running down a lowbie road and a lvl 70 (max @ the time) just opened trade with me and gave me 50 gold for no apparant reason (50 gold was worth alot more that time). I thanked him and asked him why he did it. He said he didn't know and just felt like it. *LOL* I always remembered that Random Act of Kindness for some reason. We can do the same for others, we may never know what happens, but we always have the opportunity to plant a seed.
I shared this idea with Skrubs and he told me I should definitely go for it. In a nerdy way, sometimes it's easy to forget there's a real life person with emotions/needs behind that WoW character, we'd basically be serving and being a blessing to that person playing behind a computer somewhere in the world.
So, what do u guys think? If you're interested, plz let me know. If u have some reservations and I'm missing something, I'd like to hear it as well. I think if we can get 5-10 ppl who wants to do this, it'd be awesome. If guild leadership gives us the green light, let's pick a nite and blitz SW by being a blessing to others. It'll be a lot of fun
"Random Act of Kindness, Sensless Act of Beauty"
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