Building for Eternity
Your ideas for Walking Across the …
As followup from to the Just a Walk Across The… article, here are your responses:
- Be involved in community activities – hobbies, sports, community action groups, play groups
- Join the local Mothers Group
- Be involved in local chamber of commerce, sports clubs
- Invite neighbours & friends to social game of squash on regular basis
- Engage in your local school community – Parents and friends, canteen helper, Scripture Teacher, etc.
- Help improve your local area
- Invite a friend or neighbour for a surf
- Play sports with your neighbours
- Make friends with my children’s sports parents
- Start a women’s craft group and invite the neighbours and community along
- World Cancer Day, join in raising money for cancer – join a walk etc
- Aust. Biggest Morning Tea, invite someone to the church one or have your own
- World Environment Day – invite neighbours to go for a picnic, bush walk or meet at the park
- National Diabetes Week – invite those you know who are touched by diabetes, swap recipes – have helpful info on hand
- Invite your neighbours to activities that interest them, snooker, fishing, walking
- Drop a church brochure into a new neighbour
- Show kindness to your neighbours and their children
- Chat regularly with your neighbours
- Give a gift of something we make ourselves to our neighbour for no reason
- Share your home-grown excess produce
- Offer to pray for or with a neighbour who is ill
- If neighbours don’t have kids – make a fuss of their pets instead.
- Chat to local neighbours when you see them at the corner shop
- New neighbours – go introduce yourself – leave them with your name & phone no & tell them to ring if they need any help/info
- New neighbours – offer them advice on local shops, services, schools etc.
- Tell your neighbours, friends, hairdresser what you do during the week – attend church, bible study, church programs
- Share what you did over the weekend/week with your work mates – church, bible study etc.
- A smile – can do wonders
- Que at the same checkout and have a conversation with the person serving you, tell them what you are doing when they ask
- Stop and say g’day when you see neighbours and friends
- Chat to those waiting for trains and buses
- Be a good listener to your workmates, friends & neighbours
- Visit those ill and recovering while in hospital
- Keep in contact with old friends make sure you care about them
- Introduce yourself to new work mates or class mates
- Send cards – to celebrate events – birthdays, becoming grandparents, when people are sick etc
- Sit with different people I don’t know at the Village dining room & get to know them
- Christmas – give your neighbours cards – or maybe a small gift
- Open house – and invite neighbours
- Invite newcomers to a meal at your place
- Invite neighbours to a BBQ
- Take a meal to a neighbour who is sick
- Invite neighbours on picnics & family outings
- Invite neighbours to lunch after church – bring them to church with you first
- New neighbours – take them a cake
- Organise a street BBQ or party
- Host a Morning Tea for the teachers of your local school – get neighbours to help
- Pub Team – visitation – go have a drink with the locals and make your self known (but with restraint)
- Invite your friends to XL events – they’re really cool (age appropriate)
- Organise a supper for the Youth Parents
- Gather some Christian friends and non Christian friends and invite them all to dinner
- Invite your work mates to special church activities
- Invite those who use our car parks during the week to an afternoon tea or ?
- Cooking for your neighbours
- Invite playgroups Mums to special events for women and to special church services
- Invite neighbours for coffee
- Host a bible study & invite friends and neighbours
- Invite people to a Card’s Night, Bush walking, bike riding
- Use special calendar events throughout the year & invite non Christian friends, family & neighbours to eg New Year
- New Years Day – have a street picnic/party – play cricket etc.
- Australia Day – host a real Aussie Barbie
- Pancake Day – host Breaky or brunch of pancakes
- International Women’s Day – invite all the women around to have a girly day
- St Patrick’s Day – host a green party & get people to bring an Irish joke to share
- Easter – invite to Easter at the lake – with Breaky first
- National Youth Week – celebrate our kids – have a picnic or party at school (ask permission first)
- National Mother Week – have a mother’s meeting at a park or at your home – celebrate being a Mum
- International Day of Families – invite another family for a meal and games
- Queen’s Birthday – have a royal party ball, make it formal – get everyone to wear a Tiara (females only)
- Independence Day – have an American party, hotdogs, etc – watch American football or baseball together
- International Youth Day – invite a bunch of kids/youth over to share with your kids/youth – have a party for them
- Football Grand final – invite the boys around – or anyone who enjoys the sports
- October Girls Night In – throughout October host girly nights – pamper nights, craft nights etc.
- Melbourne Cup Day – host your own day – wear hats, invite your neighbours and friends, watch it on the telly
- Thank you Day – invite neighbours in for coffee – thank them for being your neighbours
- Christmas – make sure your neighbours are not alone, if they are invite them to join you
- Say grace – tell visitors why you say grace
- Use music to bring up Christianity – share your fav. Christian band
- Use music to bring up Christianity – play with non-Christian bands
- Organise a Christian band and offer to play free at local venues
- Use my gifts in music to connect with others interested in music
- Discuss Christian music with those interested in music, lend them a copy of your music.
- Bringing music and friendship to those shut in at Nursing Homes
- Invite neighbours to share your bin for their overflow
- Collect mail for neighbours when they are away
- Watch neighbours homes when they are away (for security)
- Walk a neighbours dog for them if they are ill or elderly
- Bring a neighbours washing in for them – when its dry
- Watering a neighbours garden (on allotted days)
- Bringing in a neighbours garbage bin for them
- Lend your tools to your neighbours
- Lend garden equipment to your neighbours
- Offer to do a neighbours ironing if they are ill
- Offer to do the shopping for those ill or elderly or car less
- Offer a lift to Doctors or shopping for those ill or elderly or car less
- Inviting your children’s friends over & taking them to church or Kids Club
- Offer to baby-sit a neighbours young children so they can get their shopping done quickly with out the children
- Offer to mind a neighbours pet when they go away.
- If you have a water tank – offer to wash a neighbours car when you was yours.
- Help neighbours with minor maintenance problems if you know how to help
- Offer to mow a neighbours lawn for them
- If you find a good handyman, painter etc. recommend them to your neighbours
- If you have a great garden – open it up for people to take some solitude in and time out to pray
- Give your seat to an elderly person or a Mum with kids on the train or bus
- Hold doors open for people who have their hands full or are elderly
- Offer to push an older person’s trolley to their car for them
- Pickup dangerous items and rubbish at your local park (place in bin)
- Help neighbours with building projects, sewing projects or repair of cars etc.
- Organise working bees on a home for the infirmed or elderly living alone
- NSW Seniors Week – get your kids/youth group to do something for the seniors of the community
- Anzac Day – help the elderly or take some kids to the dawn service then have a Aussie Breaky together
- Use your holidays to go on Mission (eg Beach Missions)
- Invite neighbours to special events held at DAC – eg Gingerbread, Carols, special services, Breaky
- Stick to the Road Rules – and have a fish sticker so people can identify you as a Christian
- Be polite when driving, allow people in and be a good example
- Buy a bible for a friend who hasn’t got one
- Don’t give up on inviting your friends or neighbours to activities at church
- Talk to children, grandchildren as you spend time with them about our great God
- Introduce yourself as a Christian
- Invite your neighbours to church with you
- Live differently – be in the world but not of the world
- Pray for God to give opportunities to share our lives with our family, friends or neighbours
- Invite my friends to attend youth group with me
- Use Christian posters & pictures in your workplace – that can then lead to conversations
- Put notices and invites up about church activities at your school, club or community centre (ask permission first)
- Follow-up Anglican’s who live in my street but to go to church
- Use your computer to let people know you are a Christian – send them on thought provoking Christian material
- Pray – asking wisdom – as we chat about our church activities
- Mothers Day – invite people along to church with you – then share a meal together
- Celebrate Christmas in July – make it about Jesus – celebrate Jesus not only at Christmas Time
- Fathers Day – invite fathers and their families to church – let the men have a day off – to do what ever – golf etc.