City Road Chapel United Methodist Church of Madison in Nashville, Tennessee recently hosted a community-wide “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” themed block party. The block party worked to recognize the art of neighborliness.
The block party called, the Beautiful Day Neighborhood Festival, had hundreds of people attending. The Christian Post reported, that the festival came in response to a sermon series that is Mister Rogers themed called “It’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Being a Good Neighbor in a Divided World.”
City Road Chapel UMC lead pastor, Rev. Jay Voorhees, told the outlet, “Our church takes seriously Christ’s call to love our neighbors, but we recognize that in our current climate neighborliness is a lost art.”
He continued, “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, we believed it was important to help us draw closer to our neighbors and lift up God’s beauty in our midst.”
The outlet asked Voorhees how well the church was at being good neighbors, to which he responded the results were “mixed.”
Voorhees said, “More often than not it seems like church folks think that we get to choose who our neighbors are rather than loving the actual neighbors we have. I hear from folks all the…
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