How To Be Good: Part 4 of 4

I'm trying to figure out where 'being eager to do what is good' fits into our Christian lives, especially in the life of our local churches.

If you just joined in, take a moment to read the last few posts.
It's ok, I'll wait for you.

Right. Now we are ready to see how 'doing good' might work out in practice.

I've decided to pick up a specific example of Christians doing good which comes from my own backyard. It goes like this:

About 100m up the road from St James there is a park. (click on the pic to enlarge) It's pretty run down. The grass is dead in the middle, it rarely gets cut and the play equipment is old. Hayley and I take the kids there all the time, cause it's just around the corner. So do lots of other mums and dads too. But as I said, it's only a shadow of a park.

So, I am going to speak to our local member and ask if St James can adopt the park. We'll rehabilitate the grass, cut it and see if we can't raise some money from the community to get a decent jungle gym put in.

The mission is to make the park a place where families can come and play and meet and be safe. Because families matter, and St James cares about the families in our neighbourhood. We might even try a Sunday afternoon picnic a few times a year so people who live so close can get to know each other better. That will go a ways to strengthening the community too.

This could be one way which St James will be seen as a church that cares about those who live around us (rather than just parking them in every Sunday).

Thoughts (especially from you St Jimmians?) Do we have any wingmen or wingwomen out there?

S