The Circles of HOPE Project
If you are visiting this page you may have been invited to join The Circles Of Hope Project by a friend or found a note of encouragement left anonymously by someone who has joined hearts to be a part of the weekly challenge. However you found out about this project, thank you so much for joining us.
Simply explained joining the challenge means that each week:
1.) You leave an encouraging note for someone somewhere.
2.) And each week you invite someone into the Circles of Hope Project.
You "Dream Big" by joining the challenge, believing that your simple acts of kindness, and inviting others to do the same, can touch millions of hearts. "Stay Small" is a reminder that even small acts of kindness done faithfully and consistently can change our world!
3.) One final challenge! Make this a lifestyle - a part of your weekly and monthly rhythm! Set aside a day each week or once a month where you write a note for each week of the month. Even better make as many as you have time for! Have an art party and have a blast creating and writing notes!
You can use my free printables or you can use your own ideas. I create my notes on circles because circles are more eye-catching. But, you don't have to. It's really about "arts of kindness"! I have a shop with lessons on drawing some cute animals. You can use the animals you create and then cut the animals out and write a note on the back to encourage someone. For ideas on what to write click here.
Before I explain more about the project let me remind you how deeply loved by God you are! His love is unchanging, unstoppable, unwavering, unconditional and never-ending. Nothing can alter that! That is the hope that is most important for me to share with you! You were made with a purpose! You were not an accident or created by happenstance. Your life matters!
Let's gather circles of friends and our families to create circles of hope. Vincent Van Gogh once said, "There is truly nothing more artistic than to love people."
So, let’s join together and paint the world with the colors of hope! I will make this simple for those who don't feel creative or who are living busy lives. For the creatives I have art lessons and inspiration. There is no right or wrong way to spread hope through acts of kindness!
Leaving the notes can be a family outreach easily knit into your weekly schedule. I like leaving them randomly at coffee shops, gas pumps, grocery stores and places people frequent. There is no right or wrong place! Everyone needs hope and encouragement.
If inviting someone into the Circles of Hope Project each week seems daunting, I have a printable "invitation" that can be put on community mailboxes, local coffee shops, community boards. Or you can use the mini invitations that you can print front and back to leave with your hope circles or give to friends. The back explains what the Circles Of Hope Challenge is about.
Since some people are super busy, subscribers to my site will have full access to a digital library with Hope Circles by artists who have given permission to use their art to create hope circles for others to use. I am so grateful for their kindness in letting their art be used as a tool to encourage others. Then, you can simply print, cut and write an encouraging note of your own if you's like.
If you miss a week or two, then begin again, and combine the weeks you missed into one week. Or just keep going! Grace... no pressure is meant to be added to your lives! This is a celebration of kindness and an opportunity to be the good you want to see in the world!
The inspiration for creating a 30 day challenge came from a children's book called "One Grain Of Rice" by Demi. It is a wonderful book and a page in the back of the book clearly maps out the math. Watch the video, at the bottom of this page, to see the math behind the fact that your life, like one simple grain of rice, can multiply from 1 to over a billion in 30 days. Let's dream big and stay small! Individually, we are like a small grain of rice. But together we become so much more and billions of hearts can be touched with hope!
