Well, it certainly has been a very long time since I updated and for that I apologize. Anyhow, this summer has been great. The church is beginning to take steps into inhabiting the community again and for that I am very glad. We decided to have a summer program called SNAP (thanks to Susan Z.) The attendance for it was great but the best thing about it, in my opinion, was the fun the kids had and an afternoon just prior to that week. On that afternoon Suzan and I spent a couple of hours simply walking and talking around the neighborhood. We would converse, then stop and chat with any children and/or their parents whenever we would see any. The majority of the children that came were not the ones we contacted on this walk and that is fine. What I liked was the fact that for the first time in a long time there was a calvary member walking the neighborhood with no other agenda than to talk with people who live there! Surely we wanted to spread the word about our program but what I liked the best was that we were actively looking for people who live in our immediate neighborhood.
We want to become a neighborhood church again and the best way to do that is doing exactly what we were doing on that day, we need to "live" in norristown again. I'll be looking to do much more of that this fall.
