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Every community
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"'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbour as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
Matthew 22:37-39
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"We want to build a culture of service in this community, where we all start looking out for each other. Jesus explained that the ones who give are the ones who are most blessed. This community will really be blessed when serving each other becomes normal practice."
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Top Recent Stories
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| Howard Webb, Love Your Neighbour Network |
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How many church-based school holiday programmes launch children on successful dance and stage careers? This has been part of the remarkable legacy of 'Ideas Explosion', a holiday programme that challenges many of our preconceptions about ministry to children. more» |
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| Linda Edwards, Mt Albert Baptist Church |
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The school's wish list included a vegetable garden and a sandpit for the little ones. Enosa and Jonathan also discussed the possibility of clearing out of a huge area of weeds, major planting of shrubs and trees to smarten up the far end of the school and of brightening up the wall by the swimming pool with a mural. more» |
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| Jude Elwood, St Chad's, Meadowbank |
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Sausages, saws, spades, heart-shaped shortbread, pool competitions and 'exit mould' aren't the first thoughts of most people when they think 'church', yet on Sunday 23rd November, 2008 that's exactly what church was about as St Chad's in Meadowbank, Auckland threw open its doors and sought to serve the neighbourhood in their first 'Love Your Neighbour' Sunday. more» |
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| Felicia Edgecombe, Titahi Bay Community Church |
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The staff and clients next door are thrilled with the whole enterprise: it has brought real joy and hope. The church people have got to know their neighbours better, and have come to appreciate and admire the work that is being done there. It has been so satisfying to see the money used in this way, and there have been some remarkable spin-offs as well. more» |
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