# Over 100,000 people sign up for Lent generosity movement

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/02/22/over-100000-people-sign-up-for-lent-generosity-movement/
- Published: 2019-02-22T08:55:39+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Over 100,000 people have so far signed up to Stewardship’s Lent campaign 40acts,
which encourages people to complete a simple and meaningful act of generosity for
each day of Lent. **

The challenges range from leaving an anonymous gift for someone to engaging with
local community projects, with [40acts](http://www.40acts.org.uk) using social media
to create an online community to encourage people to act in their local area.

On each of the 40 days of Lent, participants receive a daily challenge to complete
alongside a short reflection from one of 40 different Christian writers, thinkers
and leaders. The challenges will also be available every morning on the 40acts website.

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This year writers include Guvna B (gospel rap artist), Archbishop Angaelos, (The
Coptic Church, London) and actor Tom Lister (TV and West End).

 

 

Kezia Owusu-Yianoma, [Stewardship](https://www.stewardship.org.uk/) Digital Campaigns
Executive said:

>  “Jesus turned the society he lived in upside down by living a radically different
> life; he gave his resources, his time, always noticing other people’s needs. Happy
> to be interrupted and stopped, he always had time for the physically and spiritually
> poor. Reaching out with love, compassion and kindness and in doing so he changed
> the world. Generosity happens when we see the opportunity instead of the obstacle.”

 

> See the opportunity instead of the obstacle.
>  [#SeizeYourOpportunity](https://twitter.com/hashtag/SeizeYourOpportunity?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> Do Lent Generously Starts: 6th March 2019 🌟 [pic.twitter.com/U8zdYv0PNU](https://t.co/U8zdYv0PNU)
> — 40acts (@40acts) [February 4, 2019](https://twitter.com/40acts/status/1092516676443258881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

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