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Although it hasn’t swept the nation like the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, the #FAVSChallenge is still slowly making its way through the Spokane area.

On Aug. 21 SpokaneFAVS challenged its readers to a Random Act of Kindness Challenge, with the hope of inspiring a wave of goodwill across Spokane, the Inland Northwest and beyond. Those who were challenged had one week to document themselves performing a random act of kindness, and if they failed, were asked to donate $25 to SpokaneFAVS. (Ahem, several of you need to pay up!).

We reported on the first people to complete the challenge here.

Today we want to update you on two more challenge completions.

Jan Shannon is helping care for her new grandson who was born a month premature and decided to go the extra mile by doing a day’s worth of yard work at her son’s house. She sent SpokaneFAVS a photo of her new grandson, Simon.

The Rev. Martin Elfert was challenged by Bishop James Waggoner of the Episcopal Diocese of Spokane, and chose to to go to the hospital and pray for a patient.

Will you accept the #FAVSChallenge? (Be sure to use the hashtag and post your photos to social media!).

 

Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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