Doing Good in the Neighborhood

Today members of our church walked through the neighborhood picking up the litter alongside the edges of the alleys, sidewalks and streets. 25 of us - age range being 19mos to 75 years old! - took along our trash bags, gloves, poker sticks and wheeled carts for an hour to bless the neighborhood. Albeit our impact was small, but the intent behind it was big - acts of kindness done on purpose are always good.

Anchor used to do this event every year when we first started. One thing led to another and we quit doing it. As a way to celebrate our ten year anniversary this month, we thought it'd be a great idea to bring back one of our original ways of serving our neighbors. Anchor's found plenty of good ways to serve the neighborhood in the past ten years, but what's neat about this task is that it's one for the whole family, and you get to hang out with a bunch of different folks as you walk through the neighborhood.

The neighborhood has changed a little in ten years, some houses and properties look better, others not so much. Still lots of kids in the neighborhood, young families, and plenty of barking dogs! What's important for Anchor to do is keep finding ways to bless our neighbors - in big and small ways - in lots of creative ways, in order to open doors of opportunity.

Here's how it works: God blesses Anchor, and then He makes Anchor a blessing, so that the whole neighborhood/city may be blessed by God through us. Today was one more example of how that worked.