How did your week go and especially how did it go to share Jesus with people? After we had a worship event in San Francisco at the beginning of July something changed and conversations about Jesus came more easily. Pray that God will open doors into your community!
Today we want to share a few testimonies with you how a few people that took the love your neighbor class at our church started to love on their neighbors.
So one person had a heart for music and they asked some musician friends if they could play in the backyard of his house. He set it up nicely and started the barbecue. Soon people showed up and enjoyed the music. The concert was a success and different people came including some neighbor kids. So God started to create community through this person.
Another person put on a barbecue as well and invited the whole apartment building to join and help to organize it. All the work for the setup got done because many helped together. Everyone came and had a wonderful time spending time together and getting to know each other. It was a big success and again it created a place for more community and getting to know each other to happen, by one person stepping up and getting others together.
One last testimony comes from a more upper-class neighborhood. One of the things that people had in common in that neighborhood was that many people had dogs. So that person decided to have a brunch called doggy brunch. All the dogs played in the backyard and the people ate together and connected. Each of them had a good time connecting and loved the time they had. This is another example of a person stepping up and through that, God worked to create community.
We want to inspire you through those testimonies to be a part of a movement of people that love their neighbor. God wants all of us to be the answer to loneliness and isolation wherever we live. God wants to use us to bring people together and to love our neighbor. It looks different wherever we are, but the idea is the same; be a true friend to the people around you!
Hey our friend
We hope you had a great week! We are still in Pennsylvania till Tuesday so this is a pre-written blog. Please pray with us in this time that many people are inspired in a new way to love their neighbors and with that see communities and neighborhoods transformed by the love of Jesus. If you could also keep us in Prayer transitioning back into San Francisco!
We will return to San Francisco August 1st.
Don’t forget this week to love your neighbor!!
Have a blessed week
Markus and Jen