BLESS your neighbours.

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Just as God blessed Abraham and called him to be a blessing to to others, we too are called as followers of Christ to be a blessing to our neighbours.

Neighbourhood Life

You show wisdom by trusting people;
You handle leadership by serving;
You handle offenders by forgiving;
You handle money by sharing;
You handle enemies by loving;
You handle violence by suffering;
You have a new attitude towards everything, everybody, nature, the State, all and every single thing.
And in a Jesus society you repent not by feeling bad but by thinking differently. (Bishop Peter Price)

Are you open to learning how to be a (good) neighbour?

There is no way you will be able to grow spiritually apart from a deep involvement in a community of other believers. You can’t lead the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place. Only if you are a part of a community of believers seeking to resemble, serve, and love Jesus will you ever get to know him and grow into his likeness. TKeller

Grace changes everything. God created us not to get joy but to give it.

Mercy is not optional.

Care for people. Period.

You can learn to live peacefully with anyone who doesn’t believe what you believe.

proximity + urgency + capacity = responsibility

Make a difference where you are.

Do Not Disturb...

A good friend described the impact of busyness on our neighborhoods brilliantly: 'Being neighborly used to mean visiting people. Now being nice to your neighbors means not bothering them.' People’s lives are shaped by how busy they are. Lives also are shaped by the respect and deference that is given to busyness—especially when it is valued above connection and community. If people are considerate, they assume that their neighbors are very busy and so try not to intrude on them. Dropping by is no longer neighborly. It is simply rude. (Jacqueline Olds, ‎Richard S. Schwartz)

Want to serve?

Want to be in the mission field?

YOU'RE ALREADY THERE.

Do you have an overworked & over-programmed family?

Reach out & touch someone...

We seek a private house, a private means of transportation, a private garden, a private laundry, self-service stores, and do-it-yourself skills of every kind.  An enormous technology seems to have set itself the task of making it unnecessary for one human being ever to ask anything of another in the course of going about his daily business.  Even within the family Americans are unique in their feeling that each member should have a separate room, and even a separate telephone, television, and car when economically possible.  We seek more and more privacy, and feel more and more alienated and lonely when we get it. (PSlater, 1970)

If not you, WHO?

If not now, WHEN?
If not here, WHERE?

Make the move...

Help build a thicker-life community.

Work together for the greater good.

How do we become people of love, joy, and peace?

God Belongs In Your Neighbourhood

You are the church.

Every where. Every day. Every one.

May you never forget what is worth remembering,

Or remember what is best forgotten.

We are the church.

The church goes where we go. HButt Jr.

תקון עולם

Tikkun olam.

Will you join in and help heal the world through healing your own neighbourhood?

Ministry cannot be about maintenance, but it is about gathering, about embrace, about welcoming home all sorts of and conditions of people; home is a place for mother tongue, of basic soul food, of old stories told and treasured, of being at ease, known by name, belonging without qualifying for membership. WBreuggemann

Beautiful.

It may be possible for us to think of heaven too much; it is impossible for us to think too often or too deeply about our neighbors. CSLewis

Ways to love your neighbour...

Practice a gentle but firm noncooperation with things that everyone knows to be wrong.

Offer sensitive, non-officious, non-intrusive, non-obsequious service to others.

Cultivate inward attitudes of constant prayer for activities of the workplace. DWillard

What God gets out of our lives—and, indeed, what we get out of our lives—is simply the person we become. It is God’s intention that we should grow into the kind of person he could empower to do what we want to do. DWillard