One thing about Jesus that fascinates me is how He inspired people. He healed people and His disciples got excited about that. He walked on the water and Peter starts to walk on the water. He preached to the people the good news and the disciples later on did the same thing. What is it about the fact that people tend to step out more if they see others do it? They feel inspired and their faith gets a boost.

When we started doing our neighbor brunch we invited many different neighbors that became friends over time. Recently one of them said that they would love to host a brunch at their house and then another one said the same thing. They saw that it isn’t too hard to host and how wonderful it is to connect through it with others. Now instead of having one brunch location we have 3 places that could potentially host it. If we coordinate it right we could have brunch 3 Saturdays out of the month were neighbors could connect and build relationship. But again it started by people seeing it, being inspired and getting excited to do it themselves.

You see it’s easy to do, and now it’s your turn! Get started with something easy that brings your neighbors together and then inspire them to do the same.

Ask yourself this question:

1. What things can I do that would bring my neighbors easy together? (Game nights, brunches, barbecue, themed dinners or just have them over)
2. Plan it and keep the focus on simple. Don’t cook a 5 course meal, make something everyone can make.
3. After you run a few events Inspire neighbors and encourage them that its easy and that they can do it too!
4. Make sure to pray for everyone who comes before they come and after they leave and then watch how your community starts to change!

Hey our friend

Wow less than 2 weeks and Thanksgiving is here. Time flies so fast.  Have you thought about inviting someone who doesn’t have family to go to, to your turkey feast. Maybe a neighbor?

Our week in San Francisco was a good one. Our weather is a bit off right now and we still have some kind of summer temperatures which is really not a bad thing! Last week we also had a YWAM Fundraiser which we helped a bit to get ready for as well a day of Prayer for the different ministries. Of course all the other things were going on too.

This week we really want to encourage you to pray with us to pray for healing over relationships that were hurt during this election. Pray that forgiveness will be spoken and healing can happen! Thank you for praying with us!!

Have a blessed week!

Markus and Jen