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If You Want to Change the World, Start with Breakfast

…There’s a lot to say and learn from this exercise in church planting/revitalization, but first – Breakfast.  We arrived for a site visit at Fort McKinley at lunch time and were served Breakfast.  Here’s why. 

The first six months after Ginghamsburg assimilated Fort McKinley the staff decided they were not going to save the world or the city, but instead work on making a significant change in the world of a 15 square block area that surrounded the church building.  It is neighborhood in transition from being once a predominately white, middle class neighborhood to a neighborhood of color and of lower economic income…

http://sunflowerchalice.com/2011/10/30/if-you-want-to-change-the-world-start-with-breakfast/

If You Want to Change the World, Start with Breakfast

411: NYC CHURCH PLANT LAYS THE GROUNDWORK IN PRAYER

…To that strategic prayer cover, the 411 team added intentional service in the community.  It started simply, with water and granola bars or Krispy Kreme donuts and Starbucks handed out in sub-zero weather as busy New Yorkers were hustling to work.  The group’s service expanded from handing out bubbles to kids in the park to weeding the now-famous Daffodil Hill where bodies were brought for identificaiton after the 9/11 attacks.

In a display of “post-modern day foot-washing,” the 411 crew even scrubbed rubber mats where kids play in a neglected park and cleaned bathrooms that were too nasty to open before.  The group’s black T-shirts – which have the appearance of “stage crew” apparel among the area’s artist community – got to be so well-known that New Yorkers started asking where the 411 group was serving that day, what they were giving away or if someone would pray for them.

411: NYC CHURCH PLANT LAYS THE GROUNDWORK IN PRAYER