A Nashville, Tennessee area church has hosted a community-wide block party centered on the themes of the classic kids television series “Mister Roger’s Neighborhood.”
City Road Chapel United Methodist Church of Madison hosted the first-ever Beautiful Day Neighborhood Festival on Sunday, with hundreds attending the 3-hour event.
The Reverend Jay Voorhees, lead pastor of City Road Chapel UMC, told The Christian Post Monday that the festival came in response to a Mister Rogers-themed sermon series he oversaw titled “It’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Being a Good Neighbor in a Divided World.”
“Our church takes seriously Christ’s call to love our neighbors, but we recognize that in our current climate neighborliness is a lost art,” explained Voorhees.
“Our church is located in a very diverse area of Nashville, with a high rate of poverty, homelessness, and youth violence, so there is sometimes a perception of a neighborhood that is struggling. However,…
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