Tyler Perry is famous as an actor and producer. Now he is
becoming famous for something else.
He paid for the groceries of all elderly shoppers at forty-four Kroger stores in Atlanta, Georgia, his hometown state. He did the same at twenty-nine Winn Dixie stores in his native New Orleans. “He wanted to do something special to provide immediate relief for some of the most vulnerable in the two cities he calls home,” a source explained.
His donations came after he gave $21,000 in tips for workers
at an Atlanta restaurant while picking up takeout.
The coronavirus pandemic is not the first time Perry has
been gracious to those in need.
Last November, he came to the aid of a couple from Atlanta
who were forced to seek medical treatment in Mexico and then prevented from
leaving because they could not pay their $14,000 medical bill. He paid their
bill and also covered their travel expenses as soon as they were cleared to
leave.
In December 2018, he paid $434,000 to cover all layaways at two Walmarts in Atlanta, helping 1,500 people.
Anonymous missionaries who have changed your life
We join God in redeeming crisis when we respond to its
victims with generosity. Others may not know of our service, but it will bear
significance far beyond itself.
For instance, Acts 11 tells us that “those who were
scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as
Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch” (v. 19). Stephen’s martyrdom led to
persecution in Jerusalem that caused this diaspora through which the gospel was
spread across the Roman Empire.
In addition, “There were some of them, men of Cyprus
and Cyrene, who on coming to Antioch spoke to the Hellenists also, preaching
the Lord Jesus. And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who
believed turned to the Lord” (vv. 20–21). These unnamed missionaries
established the church in Antioch that would later become the base for Paul’s
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