Do you own the Footprint of your Neighborhood?

Click here to view part of an interview in which Pastor Randy Frazee talks about Neighborhood Life.

How do I meet my Neighbors?

Let’s keep it simple. Here is an interview of what one person did.

Here are a few more idea’s.

1. Go for a walk in your neighborhood. Say hi to people. Become familiar with the people around you.

2. Use what you have – A touch, a smile, a listening ear, food, your TV. Everyone has one of these items.

3. Keep an “open chair” at the kitchen table and invite family, friends, neighbors, churched or the unchurched to join you for a meal.

Click here to view another example of what one person can do.

Click here to start the Journey

Look what I found!

Well I am meeting people, waving, being polite, listening and enjoy my walks with God.

In the neighborhood I have met several Christians and am having dialogs with them, often asking as to why we don't interact more. Most of the reasons given mostly has to do with activities outside of the neighborhood and busy schedules. They all want to make a difference and seem to be pleasant folks. This is making me hungry for a salad.

Hmm.. A potluck anyone?

 

 

Just smile and wave

Now that I am walking with God through the neighborhood. What happens if I encounter someone coming towards me.

My heart is starts to pound. O no! What if they look at me? I might have to say something. I don't know what to do. Help!

Here are some suggestions.

1. How we should think about people we encounter.

• They are intelligent and have great value.

• They are worth listening to.

• They are significant.

• They have the same challenges and fears as we do.

• They care as much as we do.

• They are probably as nervous to meet us as we are of meeting them.

2. What we can do when we encounter an individual.

• Smile

• Make eye contact

• Say "Hi!"

• Try a friendly wave if they are across the street or on their porch.

• Listen more than you speak if someone engages you in conversation.

3. Some phrases and questions we can use if someone engages us when we greet them.

• Do you live in the neighborhood?

• I've been here several years, How long have you lived here?

• Are you originally from here?

• What's the best thing you like about the neighborhood?

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Well, Lets see how this goes. This is my congregation. I might as well meet them.

Walking with God

As I begin walking around the block of my neighborhood I decide to talk to God. I’m not sure what to say. What would I talk to with my friend if he/she were walking with me?.

We would probably conjecture who lives in what house, the condition of the houses, cars or landscaping. We definitely would talk about what’s happening in our lives. We would probably end talk about anything. So here’s a common sense observation.

• I don’t need to be a spiritual giant to talk with my friend.

• I don’t need to be a spiritual giant to talk to God either.

OK then.
Here it goes as I utter my first words… “I wonder who lives in that house?”.

So begins my first prayer walk in the neighborhood.

The neighborhood project begins

I open my door.

OK, What now?

It starts with one step.

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We are the Church in our Neighborhoods

Can our cities become spiritually transformed? Then it must start where we live.

We as followers of Jesus need to connect and empower one another in the neighborhoods we live in.

If we love God, love each other, and connect where we live…

We can have a living breathing Church in every neighborhood in America starting tommorrow. The spiritual landscape would change overnight.

 

Be the Church and connect the “Church” where you live and watch incredible things happen in your neighborhood. We have an opportunity to do something we have never done before.

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What this site is about

This site will show what can happen…

• When Christians learn to connect and empower one another where they live.

It’s already beginning and in time you will learn about the story which is unfolding here and in other neighborhoods across America.

The Church in every Neighborhood

Spiritual transformation of our cities and communities is now possible within our generation

because…

The “Church” now lives in every neighborhood across America!!

We have an opportunity to do something we have never done before.

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Since the Church (followers of Jesus) now live in every neighborhood in America. We can…

• Connect to each other where we live.

• Love and support one another where we live.

• Love and support those around us.

• All within walking distance.

If we love God, love each other, and grow the kingdom where we live…

We can have a living breathing Church in every neighborhood starting tomorrow!

 

The spiritual landscape would change overnight

 

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Our Neighborhoods define America

When we, as Christians connect and empower one another in the neighborhoods we live in, then all neighborhoods would have a “living Church” to serve and transform it. The vision of spiritual transformation in every community and city will become a reality.

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…“The land is mine and you are but aliens and my tenants. Throughout the country that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption of the land.“

Leviticus 25:23,24

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Connect the “Church” where you live and watch incredible things happen in your neighborhood.

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The Neighborhood Initiative Project

Accelerating spiritual transformation in our communities by connecting the “Church” in every neighborhood across America.