Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Impact.

At Community of Joy, we want to make a positive impact on our neighborhood, community and world. We also want to be a place where relationships matter! And the first step in making relationships matter is knowing who each other is... getting acquainted, finding a place where you belong.

In the next few weeks we will begin a process that seeks to accomplish both of those priorities at once! We want to know where you see places that we can impact our community by making a difference. For instance, we can form a Habitat for Humanity work group that will work on a local project each month or we could identify a neighbor who is unable to do yard work and form a team to do the work, or we could.... (you name it, literally!) We want to start collecting ideas and then see who would be willing to lead a team to both make an impact and to form relationships that matter!

So start looking, jot down what you see and be prepared to share ideas and to form teams to accomplish these ideas.

Two of our core values inform this desire....

We believe that loving relationships should permeate every aspect of community life.

We believe that serving others is an expression of our love for God and for God’s children.

1 comment:

cathy b. said...

What a great post! It's like a step of faith off a ledge ... to say that you want SPECIFICS! It is uplifting and most of all, challenging! And at the moment I'm very challenged because I haven't found an idea yet, but I am expecting one or more will come. I'm also thinking of some people I can ask...