Neighbor Update

A quick update, for anyone wondering how our ministry to our neighbors is going. (Peruse my older posts if you're curious of what I'm talking about....)

We haven't even seen Esther lately. We figure her mom caught wind of the fact that she was coming over to our place without her knowledge. Definitely a bummer, since we thought she'd be coming to VBS and possibly bringing her family to church with us...

Alan moved away a year ago, so we don't get blessed by his amazing cooking and his available car-port anymore.

Frank and Kevin are almost never around anymore-- which is ok, considering we watched Kevin and Alan get in a fist-fight before Alan moved, and Jerry suspects Frank of stealing his car.

Which actually worked out ok for us. About the time Alan moved (and a new tenant who uses their car-port moved in), Jerry's car got stolen. Since we're friends with Jerry (and he won't get a new car because his health won't allow him to drive anyways) he's letting us use his car-port for Sam's car. Huge blessing.

All that to say: there isn't much going on anymore in regards to ministry with our neighbors.

Not that we haven't tried. This Christmas, Sam had the awesome idea to hand out little baskets of homemade treats to our neighbors. We spent a Saturday in December making our goodies together and giving them to the other people in our building. We also decided to be those super-weird Christian types and include a gospel tract with each box. (It's actually a really good tract that very clearly explains the gospel with lots of scriptural support.) Anyways, we got a few weird looks when we rang the doorbell and said, "We made some some goodies for you because we love Christmas! There's also a little booklet in there that explains why we love Christmas so much." We prayed that our neighbors would come and talk to us about the gospel, but no one has yet. It is (and always has been) in God's hands, I suppose.

Maybe things will pick up when it's warmer outside.  :)