Neighborhood Picnic - Get the word out!

The last post inspired me to share with you some more information about the neighborhood picnic! Amy Meyer and I have been delegated the task of getting the word out to the neighborhood about our picnic; inviting our neighbors to join in our celebration!

Recently, the youth participated in step 1 of our process of inviting our neighbors to the picnic. We wanted to make contact with CMLC's neighbors in a caring, face to face way before handing them invitations to the picnic. So, in early March, the youth went door to door in our neighborhood asking if they could pray for people.

So, Amy and I need your help with Step 2: Getting invitations to our neighbors. We need all life groups to help with this process! We want to be able to hand deliver invitations to our neighbors face to face. Here's the plan:

If your life group meets at a home that is within Christ Memorial's neighborhood, we would like to ask your life group to take a night to pass out invitations to the street(s) around that home.

If your life group does not meet in a home in CMLC's neighborhood, we would like your group to pick a night to come and pass out invitations in CMLC's neighborhood. We will assign your group 2-3 streets to cover.

By April 19th, please let Emily Bremer or Amy Meyer know which streets in our neighborhood your group will cover (because you already meet in a home there) or if you need to be assigned streets to cover (because your group doesn't meet in a home around the church).

We would like invitations to be passed out between May 4th and May 17th. One suggestion would be to do this on a night your life group already meets, but to use the time to prayer walk in the neighborhoods by church and pass out the invitations.

If we all pitch in, we should be able to make a lot of face to face contact with our neighborhood! I can't wait to see how God is going to bless this effort and this picnic.

Peace,
Emily Bremer

Great to be together!

It was great to be together for training on Friday night as well as Sunday Morning! What a privilege to serve as a leader with such a great bunch of people! I'm trying this out for the very first time, not just on this blog but on any blog! Trying to get the ball rolling on this thing. We have wanted a way to share with each other and bounce ideas off each other and ask for help, well here it is!

I wanted to talk a little more about the Neighborhood Picnic we are having on Sunday, May 25th! The purpose of this event is two fold:
1. CELEBRATE what God is doing in our lifeGroup communities
2. Reach out to our neighborhood!

Your job is to tell your group about the picnic, have people get it on their calendars now. Your other job is to really try and be there. And to have your whole group bring a side dish and a dessert. Any kind of side will work, fruit salad, veggies, potato salad, slaw, chips you get the idea. No need to keep track of what sides are coming. And your other job is to PRAY that God would provide some sunshine that day and that LOTS of our neighbors would join us and we could make some connections with them!

If you haven't registered yet to be an author on this blog, go ahead and do it. It's not hard, and we want to hear from as many of you as possible to have this be effective!
"Every time I think of you, I give thanks to my God. Whenever I pray, I make my requests for all of you with joy." Philippians 1:3,4