Welcome! It’s a Good Place!

We are proud to announce our  NEW (and ongoing!)  project :

Making the World a Good Place!!

David Archuleta singing “Good Place”

“You find it…

You hold it…

You feel its Grace”

This is a project to help keep David Archuleta fans reaching out to others all over the world who are in need  while David’s doing the same on his mission.  It will take sacrifices of our own time but the end result of putting a smile on someone’s face is priceless.

It’s OUR TURN to make a difference in our own communities!!  

There are many ways you can do this. Here are just a few examples but BE CREATIVE!!

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The Act of Forgiveness: To Forgive Heals the Soul

One day one of my friends was crying and approached me.  Of course, I immediately asked “Whats wrong with you ?”. .It turns out she had a fight with her playmates because they was insulting her boyfriend with inappropriate words.

She was resentful to her playmates and she said “until whenever I’m not going to forgive!!!”But I said to her “Really?? Hey girl,we are living only temporarily there’s no point hating someone, it will harm our selves, so forgive them ,God alone is most forgiving, Why aren”t you??”

And Now they have  forgiven each other!

This is my story, so i think forgiving someone is good deed =)

~Jenny from Indonesia

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Feeding the Hungry One Smile at a Time

Hello my fellow Archies,

Couldn’t resist including my story of the last couple years. I started volunteering for my church in 2011 and continue to do so today. I act as the morning receptionist and answer phones and assist around the office, but my greatest reward comes from helping the poor of the community who come in each day for food donations.

My church has a food closet program that offers a monthly emergency bag to each household that comes in to the office to request one as well as a larger once-a-month Saturday distribution where each person receives two bags. Seeing the smile on each person’s face and knowing I’m making a difference by being there so that they can get food for their families is incredibly gratifying.

Recently we’ve had one regular who was diagnosed with end stage cancer. I’ve become fond of him over the months that he’s come in and have been looking out for him since his diagnosis, making sure he gets something each time he comes in. It does my heart good to know that I’m giving him comfort in his last days. His smile when we chat is like God’s light. 

My church also presented me with the opportunity to volunteer at a camp for the developmentally disabled in NorCal last summer. This was another extremely gratifying experience as I have always felt a kinship with the differently-abled population. And on top of my church works, my career also provides an opportunity for them as I tutor at-risk children throughout my hometown and neighboring communities. I feel David’s inspiration every day and will continue to bring it with me in all I do. 

~Charlotte

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She Honored her Mom and Helped a Stranger in Need

 Today on my way to work I saw a homeless person standing in front of Dunkin Donuts.
It was frigid out today and he looked very cold and was just standing there.

As I went into Dunkin Donuts to get my latte, I was thinking of my Mom who just passed away Dec. 27th and had her funeral on New Year’s Eve. She was a very thoughtful, giving sweet person like David. I was thinking of my Mom and David and I decided to buy an extra cup of coffee to give to that man.

When I came out he was gone. So I walked around looking for him. I said to myself, he couldn’t have gone
very far now. So I went to the corner and looked…nothing. I walked a block and went to another corner
and looked and nothing. So, just as I was about to give up and didn’t know what to do with this extra cup
of coffee in my hand I walked to my job and lo and behold there was the man walking right my way.

I went up to him and said: “Excuse me but I bought this cup of coffee for you. I saw you standing outside
Dunkin Donuts and you looked really cold…so Merry Christmas.” The man had no teeth but smiled a cute
little smile at me and said oohhh thank you very much. I said, your welcome. I actually went looking for you.
We just smiled at each other and both wished each other a good day.

It really made me feel good to do that.
I did it because I was thinking of My Mom and David. I was thinking about the kind, thoughtful, gentle ways they
both have and how they affect other people’s lives with their generosity of spirit.

~Patricia

~A Dedicated David Fan helping others

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Doing Good to Help local Orphans in Many Ways!

Good place for # DA2014

Today I have realized all the good I have done with all my friends from college. We organized social events, donated some clothes and food to orphanages.  It brings us joy to help the orphans. Hopefully this can make them happy too and make the place we live better. :)
~Good place for # DA2014

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A visit to an Orphanage puts a Smile on Many Faces!

My classmate and I wanted to share.  We brought the joy and happiness of Ramadan with kids in Al-Isa, a small orphanage in poor areas of my district. So, we decided to iftar or breaking the fast together with them. Before adzan is comes, we decided to play a funny game with them. In Bahasa it’s called “Jujur atau Diberi Perintah”. There were many kids who were very excited to play this with us. There was so much laughter and jokes in this games… and in a few hours later we heard the sound of adzan, so  we began to iftar or dinner together to break our fasting… and in the end, we give some money to charity to help them…

This is my story, there is so many ways to make the world a good place!

Make the World a Good Place!

~A from Indonesia

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A Diligent Student’s Hard Work Pays Off!

When I was in Junior High School, maybe I was a lazy student. But everything had changed when I was on 3rd Junior High School. Just because I would face the Final Examination, I had to overcome my lazyness and learned all  the material again that I didn’t understand before. For about 6 months,  I studied hard in order to make my scores go up and now I graduated from Junior High School. And the result, I got bearable scores and with a miracle from God  I could still be in a favorite High School in my hometown. And now, in my 1st class in High School I would be more diligent and always trying to reach for the good scores. And a month ago, I had just finished my 1st Final Semester Examination and the result is I got the 4th rank in my school. I was just surprised and happy, and so is my family! And right from this, I can make some definitions that the key of being a successful person is to be patient, always pray and  keep trying. Sometimes, success doesn’t come right away in our life.  However, it doesnt’t mean that God didn’t hear our wish but He only wants to test our patience.

~Adinda from Indonesia

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Indonesian Fan Gives the Gift of Life!

I want to share my experience when I decided to donate my blood.
One day I accompanied my father to donate blood. I saw several other patients in there. At first, I thought it would hurt, but they feel pain more, because they need blood for their bodies to fight the disease. The question arose…what can I do to be useful to others? I’m a student but being well educated is not enough if I does not serve the public. And then I decided to donate my own blood. The second time I donate, I fainted after donation, but it did not lower my spirits to assist people in need of blood. I dont want to get the award, but the safety of every soul is what I want to strive for. The Third time I donated is when the father of my best friend needs blood for his illness. Now he’s gone, even so I was proud of myself  because I can be useful to my best friend.

Above is a photo taken while he was recovering. Around him is my best friend

My name Is Ellis  I am from Indonesia.

~Editor’s note: For more information about donating blood,  find blood drives being held in your hometown.

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