Spreading Joy for Jacob has taken off! To request Joy for Jacob cards to spread your own joy, email joiningforjacob@gmail.com
Joy for Jacob
After we lost Jacob, we decided to celebrate his birthday by sharing the impact he had on our lives with others. For years, we would spend the day at the St. Louis Zoo with a group of friends and family who help us to do random acts of kindness to others as they enjoyed the zoo. Each family in our “Joy Army” is given an envelope filled with cash and tickets to the children’s zoo, carousel, or zoo train, and was charged with the task of making other people’s day in honor of Jacob. Each random act is given with a card about Jacob in the hope that others would continue to spread his joy. Money for this day was raised by donations given directly for Joy for Jacob, as well as the sale of t-shirts.
These days during the entire month of July we celebrate Jacob and his birthday, by doing a mass mailing of Spread Joy cards to all that would like them to spread joy in their own community.
