From Florida, Frank reports the following:
We set out to pray for our neighbors using the pray4everyhome.com website that was suggested to us. I went to the website and set up my login and they assigned me 100 people with addresses near our home. Actually, the 100 people lived in 70 homes. The website provides a neighborhood map. It is possible to select street view and see each home as well as their names, addresses, and languages spoken.
So, I started to pray. They gave ideas on how to pray for your neighbors, even when you do not know them. So, after I prayed for all 100 by name, I noticed that it gave me the chance to pray for them again, so I started over, praying for a few names each day. Then, when I finished the second time it gave me another chance so I began a third time. That’s when it hit me: “Why not visit my neighbors, introduce myself to them and tell them how I am investing in my neighborhood?” So I started to put together a strategy to go door to door:
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Introduce ourselves as neighbors.
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Share about our desire to help needy kids as part of a Christmas outreach from our church. I developed this neighborhood-flyer with our name, address, phone and email information on it.
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Give them something I personally put together for my neighbors: promises-to-live-by.
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Give them a card with our church address and service times.
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Give them a copy of the new 24-language JESUS Film DVD (A2L).
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Ask them if they have a prayer request we could begin to pray for them.