A church-wide invitation to practice loving our neighbors.

A church-wide invitation to practice loving our neighbors.

This May, join us for Love Thy Neighbor!

As followers of Jesus, we’ve heard the command: “love your neighbor.” But what does that actually look like today?

Love Thy Neighbor is our way, as a church, to discover what it means to be a neighbor, practice cultivating community around us, and expand our ability to care for others.

Together, we represent the love of Jesus to our city, and it begins by being a good neighbor.

“‘Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?’ And he said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.’”

- Matthew 22:36-40

WAYS TO PARTICIPATE:

  • BE A NEIGHBORHOOD HOST!

    • Attend a Neighborhood Host Interest Meeting to meet one another and learn how to practically cultivate community around you

    • Meet your neighbors by gathering your community between May 17th and May 31st

    • Invite your neighbors to participate in collecting hygiene supplies to support those who are unsheltered in our community

  • PARTICIPATE IN A NEIGHBORHOOD SUPPORT TEAM!

    • Prepare Collection Bin supplies and resources for Neighborhood Hosts

    • Pick up collected hygiene supplies from Neighborhood Hosts and deliver to Vigilant Hope on June 1st

    • Cover a neighborhood in prayer

THE SCHEDULE:

  • May 17 - May 31st

    • Neighborhood Hosts meet, gather, and invite their neighbors to help collect hygiene supplies

    • Not a neighborhood host? Don’t worry! You can still drop off supplies at your closest Neighborhood Host Site! Drop us a line below to find out how to connect with them!

  • June 1

    • Neighborhood Hosts and the Neighborhood Support Team drop off supplies at Vigilant Hope’s Saturday Morning Gathering

WHAT IS THE SHOWER TRAILER?

Love Thy Neighbor hopes to expand our definition of who exactly our neighbors are. Many residents in our city often live as unseen neighbors, but as the church, we want to begin seeing them and meeting their needs, too.

When our local partner, Vigilant Hope, first began building relationships with people who faced homelessness in Wilmington, it was clear that a lack of access to showers was a huge problem. It was out of this need that they launched their mobile shower trailer to provide hygiene supplies and hot showers to those in need throughout the week.

That’s why, as we’re learning to expand our ability to care for our community, a core component of Love Thy Neighbor this year is the collection of hygiene supplies for the shower trailer. To provide our neighbors with hygiene supplies is one way to affirm the dignity of every person who uses it!

NEIGHBORHOOD HOST RESOURCES

“"‘Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?’ He said, ‘The one who showed him mercy.’ And Jesus said to him, ‘You go, and do likewise.’”

- Luke 10: 36-37