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July 16, 2025

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It Just Happened....

Community. As I sit in differently planning meetings with churches and non-profit groups the buzz word is community and how it can be fostered or created. I guess my thought is, why not just allow it to happen? When we first moved to North Carolina a leader at our church asked my wife & I to serve as weekly hosts for 20somethings. Realizing we were new to town with no one in this group really knowing us, I told the church we'd be glad to help only if we could do so in an informal manner. The leader, who knew us from our previous jobs, said , "I know who you are and I trust you. Just do what you do." The leader was referring to our success in building community among 20somethings. So we did "what we do" and invited 20somethings from around the city to join us and watch "the office" on Thursday nights. Our strategy was to be intentionally unintentional . By this I mean we had no agenda other than to provide a venue where community could naturally oc...

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