I love this! I remember a few years ago, my husband’s Aunt Norma’s house had become so unsightly that the neighbors actually built high fences to “ward it off.” She was old and couldn’t afford to get it fixed on social security, and eventually she ended up having to enter into a loan with a group that would take her debt after her death. This left nothing to the family after her death.

At the time, I remember thinking, “Why don’t people of Christ see the need and fill it?”

I thought it would be great for a group of Christians to come up to a person’s door, knock, and ask if they could repaint the house and do some landscaping. What a loving message that would send to them–real needs fulfilled.

It caused me to consider starting a group at our church to receive lists of the needs out there in the local community and to organize people from the church who could get the job done–for free, but alas, I was meant to move on from where I was at the time and never had a chance to fly it.