A Job Well Done - OC Register
WELL DONE: Leesa and Denny Bellesi are hosting the Well Done awards which will recognize people who have done well on behalf of their fellow man.
A JOB WELL DONE
By LORI BASHEDA
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Where can you find an inspirational speaker who was born with no arms or legs, an Aliso Viejo CEO who spends his spare time trying to save the natives on a primitive island, a Hollywood producer, a homeless guy and "American Idol" superstars Katharine McPhee and Chris Sligh, all hanging out together?
At Coast Hills Community Church.
Tonight.
Leesa and Denny Bellesi call their event the Well Done Awards.
Their inspiration is Matthew 25:23. "Well done, good and faithful servant!" the Scripture reads.
Well done.
Those words kept bouncing around in Leesa Bellesi's head.
"Why do the Snoop Doggs of the world get honored?" she asked herself. "Why not honor people who have done amazing good things?"
People like Todd Johnson, who shook his wife awake at 5 a.m. one day to announce that he had a great idea: "Let's start collecting one penny for every person who has died of AIDS in Africa and then send that money along to ease the suffering of those still alive." More than 3.4 million pennies (and one cracked garage floor) later, Got Cents has gone global.
More than 30 winners in all will get trophies engraved with Matthew's "Well done" verse.
Money from ticket sales will go to a foundation set up with the goal of eventually seeding 50,000 churches and nonprofit organizations around the globe.
It's the latest installment of the Kingdom Assignment, a phenomenon the Bellesis started seven years ago at Coast Hills.
Denny, the pastor at the time (he is now the interim teaching pastor at Lake Avenue Church in Pasadena), took $10,000 of Coast Hills' money, broke it down into $100 bills and handed them out to 100 random church-goers one Sunday, asking them to go forth and help their fellow man.
By the time everyone reported back in 90 days, the $10,000 had morphed into hundreds of thousands and good deeds galore. One bill alone, through various twists and turns, grew into a shelter for abused women.
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