Neighboring
Introducing … Mercy Masks
As with all of us, Faye Palmer’s life as a music teacher changed dramatically as a result of the pandemic. Nonetheless, she has found a beautiful way to serve and encourage others during the quarantine.
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Neighboring Well While Social Distancing
Have you found yourself avoiding eye contact with people as you avoid physical contact? Are you finding it hard to neighbor well with the new rules in place? Here’s a resource to help. May it be that other side of this, we have become better, kinder, stronger neighbors and friends.
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When our grill became a fire pit.
Halloween is right around the corner! It is the perfect time to be intentional in your neighborhood. Halloween is the one time of the year when your neighbors actually come to you. Pulpit Rock would love to help you pull off something missional in your neighborhood.
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If we build it…
If you’ve been at church the past few weeks, you may have noticed that we’ve been doing a little demolition of our west parking lot. What, you might have wondered, is going on? We’re glad you asked. The answer is … we’re building a field. But actually, think of it not so much as a field but as our outdoor “table.”
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Moved Into the Neighborhood
Recently, our family made a big move to be closer to Pulpit Rock, our coffee shop, and the places we are creating community. Leaving a large house of seven years where we had all four of our kids together and a neighborhood we had settled in was hard, but we felt that we needed to live more intentionally missional in last decades of our life.
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SENT | Salvation Army Meal Teams
Several teams from Pulpit Rock serve meals at the Salvation Army shelter every month: “Our small group wanted to find a way to serve, and providing a meal for Salvation Army fit perfectly. We are able to bring our families to serve and grow together. We have enjoyed doing this for over ten years.”
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SENT | Klista Bomberger | The MVCS Giving Tree
Klista Bomberger heard of a need in her school and came up with an amazing and super inspiring way to meet it: “I was blown away by the number for families that stepped up and took children off the tree. It is so easy to get caught up in the negativity of the world and forget that God is good and he created goodness, love and kindness.”
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SENT | Donuts on the Deck and Driveway | Biels, Shipps, Stermers
The Shipps, Biels and Stermers collaborated on a Saturday morning to connect with their neighbors: “A group of neighbors who have lived here for 30+ years reminiscing about raising their kids here and talking about what activities they used to do together. They were so excited that the torch has been lit to do these things once again, even now that their own kids are grown and gone.”
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SENT | Josh & Rachel Bennett | Halloween Potato Party
Rachel Bennett shares about how their Halloween Potato Party created space to connect with people in their neighborhood: “We moved into our home almost 2 years ago. Over this time, we have met a few neighbors but haven’t necessarily felt like a community. We wanted to provide an opportunity to bring people together.
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SENT | James & Beth Shank | 4th of July Block Party
James and Beth Shank about their 4th of July neighborhood party: “People are longing for community, but rarely is someone willing to step-out of their comfort zone and approach their neighbors. They want community, they need community, they just do not know how to create community.”
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