It sends a message that church is the people, not the building.
The church is present in every neighbourhood, every community.
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Bless Your Street with Lawn Signs
We have created 3 types of lawn signs for you to display at your front yard, front door, garage door… This is a way for you to bless your neighbours, share positive messages, and even start a conversation with them.
Here’s what you need to do if you’d like to display a lawn sign at the premise of your home:
- Ask your Small Group Leader for a lawn sign.
- At the right hand lower corner, where it says “We Love ___________________”, use your creativity and fill in the blanks.
- Stick the steel frame to the back of your sign.
- Display it as you like on your lawn/door.
- Pray a blessing on the lawn sign and your home, that your neighbours will feel the presence of God’s love, will sense the hope of Jesus Christ, and be attracted to the beauty of Jesus.
- Pray for open door opportunities to have conversations with your neighbours. Continue to build relationship with them.
Pray for Your Street
Wash Feet: Pray for your street
In times of fear, we see the unique opportunity to love and share the hope of Jesus Christ. Therefore, RHCCC will “Wash Hands & Wash Feet”. We will wash hands as we take precautionary measures out of love, we will wash feet as we serve our community out of love. We encourage every church family to wash hands and wash feet.
Here is one way you can “wash feet”: pray for the street you live on. God has placed you at your residence for a special purpose – you are the light on your street! When every church family bless and pray for your own street, the city will be transformed.
Pray these 4 things on your street:
Pray for Protection
Begin your prayer walk by proclaiming Psalm 91. Pray for safety and physical health for your neighbours. Pray for emotional, physical and spiritual healing. Pray for fear to be removed from your street as Jesus comforts and give peace to those who live there.
Reveal God’s Love
Pray for divine opportunities to show God’s love and care to those who live, work and play on that street. Ask for creativity to serve your street – even amidst the priority to do social distancing.
Announce the Kingdom
Pray that God would open spiritual doors for you to share the Good News of Jesus Christ. Pray that God’s kingdom would come to your street.
Yield to God & Bless Your Street
Submit everything to God in faith. Pray for God to bless each person, each family, each marriage and each child with God’s peace. Pray that a spirit of hope would replace the sense of hopelessness.
Spiritual Conversation Starters
As we build relationships with our neighbours, brothers and sisters have wondered how we may initiate spiritual conversations with them. These may be people that stop by our front yard to look at our lawn sign, they may be people we bump into as we do prayer walks on our streets…
Below are suggestions how you may engage in Spiritual conversations with them. Remember, follow the Holy Spirit’s guidance, and ask God to open doors for you to have such conversations.
1. CARE
CONNECT Ask how they are doing
AFFIRM Listen for fears + feelings
RELATE Empathize (refrain from giving advice).If you have similar experiences, share your story.
ENCOURAGE Make it a spiritual conversation using phrases & verses below
e.g.: “It makes sense that you are scared and don’t know how you are going to provide for your family”. Do you have hope in the middle of this? Did you know God is able to meet all our needs when we put our faith in Him? When I was out of a job, I trusted God to provide for my needs and a neighbor showed up with groceries. Do you have this hope? Would you like to?
2. TRANSITIONS TO SPIRITUAL CONVERSATIONS
- How have you been handling the current situation? Where does your hope come from? Would you like to have unshakeable hope? (Share your story & how to accept Jesus)
- Have you ever attended church? Did you know that we have an online service that you can watch from the safety of your own home? You can even pull up past sermons and find topics that you’re interested in.
- How long have you been a Christian? That’s so great. How has Jesus changed your life?
- What has God been teaching you? God has been teaching me ________ during my quiet time.
- God made you for a purpose and He made you on purpose. Did you know that? (Share your story)
- Have you talked to God about your circumstances? How is your prayer life? (Share how God has answered your prayers)
- Whatever you are going through, God loves you more than you or I are able to imagine. Did you know that?
- You are loved and God has a gift for you. (John 3:16-17). Would you like the gift of Jesus?
- Would you like to accept Jesus into your heart as your personal Saviour and start a RELATIONSHIP with him?
- Would you like to have a fresh start and recommit your RELATIONSHIP with Jesus?
Here are some Bible verses you can share as the Spirit direct you:
LOVE FOR WORTHLESSNESS
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 1 John 4:9
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Matthew 6:26
HOPE FOR HOPELESSNESS
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. Romans 15:13
… and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Romans 5:5
PEACE FOR ANXIETY
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6–7
COMFORT FOR FEAR
the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 2 Corinthians 1:3–4
Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. Psalm 23:4
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR STRESS
May God, who gives this patience and encouragement, help you live in complete harmony with each other, as is fitting for followers of Christ Jesus. Romans 15:5–6
When you go through deep waters, I will be with you! When you pass through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown! When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned up; it will not consume you! Isaiah 43:2
GOD CARES
Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7
And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19
GIFT OF SALVATION FOR ACCESS TO THE PROMISES OF GOD
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. Romans 10:9–10
Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. John 1:12
