Thursday night we had knock on our door. The new neighbors who just moved into two doors down had come to invite us to a house warming party they were having that evening, and to apologize in advance for the noise. They promised to shut things down by midnight, but would we like to come over and see their place?
Wow! What a neat opportunity to experience and create community. This has never happened in any other neighborhood that we have lived in. There is just something about our roof-top row-house that lends itself to a unique and genuine neighborhood experience.
So down we went, and enjoyed an hour of festivities with David and Peter and about 30 of thier closest friends. Thier townhouse has been remodeled and looks like something out of a magazine spread. It was cool to see what a unit so similar to our can look like when a professional designer gets involved.
Its experiences like this that confirm we made a wise decision to live where we live. I'm a big fan of being on the ground of the community you are trying to minister in. It's all about being incarnationa. You don't get invited to a housewarming of people you don't know unless you live next door. You have to be in the neighborhood. Parachuting doesn't work.
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