Donate $5 to a charity.

Haven't heard of the 30 Days of Kindness?  Click here to find out more.  Just starting?  That's okay!  Feel free to start this challenge right in the middle.  You can make up the days you missed through November, if you like.

You've officially been participating in the 30 Days of Kindness Challenge for an entire week!  Great job!  Keep up the stamina, because we still have three weeks left to go.  I hope that you've been able to encourage others, and your kind gestures have ended up encouraging you as well.
Donate $5 to a charity or to someone who needs the money.  This challenge might hurt a little bit, considering that you'll be sacrificing some of your own cash here.  However, sharing with the needy is one of the kindest gestures you can possibly make.  Just think: you're sacrificing a frappuccino from Starbucks to make someone's day, if not their entire week.

I want to leave it up to you when it comes to what you do with the five dollars.  Donate it to a homeless shelter, give it to a friend who ran out of money for their school lunch, donate the money to World Vision.  Do what you think is best with the $5.  The only rule is that it must be given selflessly to someone who truly needs it, organization or not.

I want to hear your stories!  Leave me a comment and share what you did during today's challenge.  If you have a picture already, feel free to send it to me.  If you're blogging about today, send me the link and I'll feature it on this blog.

Stay tuned until later today to see what my friends and I did for today's act of kindness.

TOMORROW: Leave an encouraging Bible verse somewhere

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To be honest, I didn't think that anyone but me would participate in today's challenge since it involved sacrificing money, which is a valuable resource for teens like me, perhaps even more valuable than kindness at times.  However, most of my friends did end up donating five dollars to a charity, which totally made my day.

I donated my five dollars to a mosquito net fund I started after I returned home from Kenya, Africa.  Another friend of mine donated five dollars to that fund as well, so together, we gave enough money to purchase a mosquito net for someone in Africa.  Exciting!

Some people donated to our school's Invisible Children Schools for Schools fund.  I loved seeing my peers step up and sacrifice their own money to help somebody else.  It brings a smile to my face. :)

What charity did you give your $5 to?