4, My Kids, INC

Following up from the post from yesterday, I am excited to share some news with you. 4, My Kids, Inc is starting a "Jar Savings Account" through C.K.Q. Gifts This "Jar Savings Account" will allow any person to donate an in kind donation to 4, My Kids, Inc to help establish any and all programs. This non-profit organization is still in the process of making an impact in the Wisconsin area, but impact just the same. The concept behind the "Jar Savings Account" goes hand in hand with the original concept for starting 4MK,inc...giving the way the Lord intended. Giving is from the heart and soul...a soul inhabited by the Holy Spirit. Even in the tough economic times we are in, .25 cents a day to help a family who can't help themselves, right now ,is a great incentive for them to get going.

No, this is not a joke. What would you do with .25 cents right now? I would put it in my purse until I had another quarter for soda at work. I might give it to the little girl down the street so she can have a bag of chips. Or I might start a "cabinet" savings account. No, it is still not a joke. I was just reading TD Jakes' book Reposition Yourself: Living Life without Limits. In this particular chapter, Bishop Jakes reminded us of how our grandmothers had a savings account on a shelf in the cabinet in the kitchen. Most of you may be familiar with that type of banking. With whatever spare change, left over grocery money, etc., Granny would put it in a jar for a rainy day emergency. Some of us have rainy days and emergencies every hour of every day. For me it is a coca-cola, for you it might be advertising cost or gas money. Either way, if you had .25 cents, everyday, to put in a "cabinet" savings account, would you? If so, what would keep you from going into th...

Children are a blessing in our lives and need to be considered and treated as such. They are the helpers of our futures. They are IT ladies and gentlemen, what are you doing to help them grow? If you are not doing anything, take the kid by the horn and start something new! (end of the school year is approaching) 1. Purchase educational books. **have them work on them daily, either in the morning or in the night. 2. Take creative field trips. ** either walks in a park you have never been to ** museums in another city ** or city hall (take a trip somewhere that provides education and creativity of the mind) 3. Give them projects to do daily. **younger children can make cards for any body, any theme **younger children can start a scrap book to be finished by the end of summer doing one page at a time. **older kids can join clubs (especially investment clubs, etc) 4. Have them watch a news channel on cable they have never watched before. **ask them to give a report about what they heard is...

I have learned that my businesses are a ministry unto someone else. It's not about what I can get and what I want, it IS about someone else and how I can help them. I am staying encouraged through my tests and trials. Being encouraged is not just for personal and spiritual fullfillment, it is to be a testimony for others. Being encouraged means walking the spiritual plan God has for you. Sometimes you have to step back and see where you are to understand your place RIGHT NOW. Ask yourself, where are you right now where you need encouragement? Are you in a place where you can't even see your way out? I have compiled a few scriptures and personal insights that you can use to help you see where you are: Judges 20:22 But the men of Isreal encouraged one another and again took up their positions where they had stationed themselves the first day. >>Sometimes where you were when you got depressed, discouraged, and SAD, is where you need to get back to, and pick yourself up. 2 C...

Okay, you may wonder what building marriages has to do with debt elimination and scholarships for teens; it has a lot to do with "cause and effect". If the effects of your failing marriage and lack of money for your teen to go to college is because of debt, you have a cause and effect that needs to be addressed. Married people have to focus their primary concerns on each other and their spouse's happiness. They need to focus on redeveloping the love in their lives to see the outcome of everything else: finances being the major reason couples don't get along. Communication on all levels of life are important to families. It's a strengthening that will help them get it all together. EVERYTHING! Teens are looking to their parents as the answer for their financial woes when it comes to going to college. I need moms and dads to see that they are responsible for understanding their teens emotional and financial needs. Not just their physical needs until their reach eigh...

I wanted to stop in and share with you the blessings that have been bestowed upon 4, My Kids, Inc. We had our first fund raiser here in Milwaukee last Friday, April 11th. We sold dinners to the corporate world and had a great "turn out". We will sell dinners again and we will hold other fund raisers that will make people aware of our organization. It is hard to see success through the eyes of the families that we are trying to help but we are encouraged by the support we are obtaining. Being in business, whether for profit or non-profit, is always a struggle. It's a struggle when there is a need and one business or individual is trying to meet that need. Thank you for your support whether it was financial or prayer. WE appreciate you.

I am working diligently to fund raise for my organization. It's been hard! The networks I am on at offering any assistance except verbal motivation. At this point, what I see, is a selfish complacency in business and in moral ethics. Why do I say this? God has taken me to a place in my finances where I have been totally broke. This is recent. I have had to suffer the experiences to see how to help others and how to help them effectively. I have been ridiculed for business choices in attempting to create this organization. Supporting my family has gone from a joint effort to my feeling single again. I say all this to point out that it takes a test and trial of one person to fill the need of another. If I didn't have my faith, I would not be able to see past the circumstances to the future on the other side. I am not one to boast about problems to get sympathy, or boast about the blessings to put myself on a pedestal. I am one that is taking the lead (From Pastor Ced Reynolds) to...