Back To School I.N.C. (in the name of Christ)

It's been an amazing day! Every year in August our church women's ministry organizes a project called Back to School, I.N.C. (in the name of Christ). This is an outreach to our community. We offer free tennis shoes and backpacks (these are all new) and haircuts. Today we saw almost 1300 kids smile and show off their new tennis shoes and backpacks. The faces tell it all. They are always so excited.
This is our 5th year to do this. We open the doors at 8 a.m. but by 6 a.m. the people are lined up outside the church. We don't require that these families meet any kind of criteria, we don't use this as an opportunity to add their names to a database, we require nothing of them. We believe that the families that need these things will have their needs met. We share Jesus with them through the written gospel but mostly we share the love of Jesus through our touch, our smiles and our sincere concern for the welfare of these families.
Before the day ended I had an opportunity to pray with a single mom who had just lost her job. She stood on our sidewalk, tears flowing freely, overwhelmed with her life. Afterward we talked about ways that we as a church would like to help her. To do ministry the way that Jesus did ministry is to touch people's lives at the point of their need. I pray that God will continually convict me of this every day - not just on the occasion of a single event. How are we being Jesus to the world closest to us?