Dan Macon’s Post [Video]

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Alright, well hello, I'm Dan Macon. I manage the engagement team here at Thrivent. I want to talk about action teams because this is an amazing benefit as being a member here at Thrive It. You could do 2 action teams throughout the year. If you haven't done one, you definitely need to experience this. It's a great way to be generous, make a difference, have a party with some people and bless people at the same time. I have Judge Brown. Serves on our thriving member network board here in the Ohio Valley and he just recently did an action team and he's really excited to talk about it. Can you tell him a little bit about the action team and you're whole experience? Yeah it's always good to see you. And yes, we just did an action team. So exciting to be a part of that to spread generosity. And I want to tell you we were helping to pack food bags for kids with food insecurities in our local community and partner with another group and brought our teams together to partner together to help 112 different food bags that we help with kids in the community. And I'm going to tell you what the take away. Laws. Not only just packing bags to know that we're bringing some food to kids who desperately need it, but the generosity that was being stirred up in the room and part of that action team that people were really forgetting about their problems, forgetting about everything else and coming together for one particular cause. And you could just see the the generosity of beginning to build in their hearts. Say man, I really enjoy this. I enjoy being a part of making a difference in someone else's life and that's kind of what I took away with from my action team is seeing on the faces of everyone there that were participating in it. And what a difference the joy to be able to go to those houses and then after we pack those bags and deliver them. What a what a great day. What a great time to be a part of it. So thankful for thriving and the vision with action teams to help spread generosity in the hearts of people. Now that seems like a big deal. It got hard thing to do to put together something like that. Was that was that hard to do? I mean that sounds like a monster event. No. We were presented with the idea of action team. I thought it's kind of hard you gotta give people. But really I came alongside another group that was already doing this and. Partnered together to help raise the funds and to get more donations in. And so we just joined our efforts together, came alongside. So we got our volunteers together, joined with their volunteers and made one big action team. I got the action team T-shirts and and all of the stuff that go along with it and just really brought it to another level of enthusiasm and excitement and it really wasn't that difficult at all because we came right alongside and so I know we get too. So you know we're planning another one for other events to do. So very excited. About being a part of it some more action teams in the future make sure you utilize your action team as a member benefit here at Thriving you get two of them. We provide the box, the party, the seed money right inside there, the coolest shirts that save live generously that the people will love, stickers, thank you cards, all kinds of stuff. It's right there in the box. Yeah, let me say that. So that part was really easy. You can go online, you go right to the website, the portal there you just submit your action teams a few questions. It goes right in through you'll get the approval sent back to you. And you can select how many T-shirts you want. Yeah, that's all part of it too. How many T-shirts, stickers, all of that, they really help you. And then it comes right to your house. You've got this whole kit to get started with the $250 action team, a seed money there. So it's so wonderful. And then not only that, but after the action teams over, they also give you opportunity to send out these nice thank you cards to everybody who participated. Just a really a great circle of spreading generosity, so great to be a part of it. Thank you for being a member here at Thrive It. Make sure you utilize your action. Game. God bless. Take care.