With all the talk about our excess real estate assets in the mainline churches, we sometimes overlook the importance of a neighborhood witness in the area surrounding a church building. Today, over 80 people met at this location to discuss how to better serve the elderly residents of the National Capital Region. A group representing the "Neighborhood Villages" concept met in the Fellowship Hall for training and planning. I think about the multiplication factor--how many thousands of lives may be touched with compassion because of the people who met here today. It's no small thing to leverage the gifts of meeting space left to our congregation by the saints of the past who built the building and the saints of the present who maintain it. I continue to give thanks for the amazing work of God's people from this location, whether or not they are "church-goers." They are all part of the work of Jesus.
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