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Nobody should say yes to Jesus on a sidewalk and have nowhere to go on Sunday.

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Every neighborhood in this county can have a church that is expecting the people we meet on its streets. Find yours.

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A man kneeling on a sidewalk praying over another man sitting at a bus shelter
Praying with a man on a corner in Baltimore.

It started with a man named Richard.

Richard was sitting on a curb in Baltimore, strung out, with nowhere to be and nobody coming for him. I sat down next to him and asked about his life. Nobody was in a hurry. He talked, I listened, and for a while that curb was the most peaceful place in the city.

He was not going hungry. A hotdog from one church on Tuesday. Chips from another on Friday. A bag of something on Sunday. A dozen steeples inside a five minute walk of that curb, and every one of them had fed him. Not one of them had ever met each other.

So he asked me the question I have not been able to put down since. Why is the church so divided? Twelve churches had handed him food. None of them had handed him a way out. A church on its own can buy lunch. It cannot walk a man into housing, or work, or treatment, or a family that notices when he stops showing up. It has no case manager. It has a pantry and good intentions, so it gives what it has, and what it has is lunch.

Richard was not waiting for a hotdog. He was waiting to find out whether the church loved him more than it loved being separate.

What ONE CHURCH looks like

  1. A church says yes

    It claims the neighborhood its building sits in. It stays Baptist, Presbyterian, Calvary, Pentecostal, house church. Nothing changes but the map.

  2. Teams go out

    Prayer, worship, food, and conversation on the corners and in the parks. Some teams come from that church, some from across the county.

  3. Someone says yes to Jesus

    On a sidewalk, in a park, at a bus stop. It happens every week in this county.

  4. They are walked to a church

    The church on that block is expecting them. It reaches out within the week, sits with them, and gets them into a small group where they can ask questions and be known.

  5. The neighborhood gets served

    The churches on the same ground meet real needs together. A school, a shelter, a family, a street. All the way through.

What serving together looks like

Churches on the same ground pick one real need and stay on it until it is met. Not a dozen things half done.

  • Neighbors gathered on a row house stoop

    Families

    One church can cover part of what a family needs and hope somebody covers the rest. Four churches on that block can just cover it.

  • Children and their mother on their own block

    Schools

    Pick the school your church can walk to. Ask the front office what they are actually short on, and still be there in October.

  • Shelters and meals

    Kitchens and shelters here already serve every week and run short of hands. Ask them which nights are thin and fill one.

  • Streets

    Teams go out where people already are. Parks, corners, bus stops. Sometimes that is the same spot for a year and sometimes it moves.

  • A team praying over a woman in a wheelchair on a city plaza

    Freedom and small groups

    Prayer and freedom ministry appointments, and small groups where someone brand new can learn and be known.

  • Serve days

    One day a year to start, every church on the map out on the county at once. Parks, schools, yards nobody can keep up with anymore.

Different names. One church.

Collectively we are Baptists, Presbyterians, Pentecostals, Charismatics, Anglicans, Calvary Chapels, non-denominational churches, house churches, Spanish-speaking congregations, and churches that meet in gyms. Nobody is asked to stop being what they are.

We are setting the differences down long enough to serve one city, and we expect to find they weigh less than we thought.

A man standing with his arms out, the back of his shirt reading You are God's idea

That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

John 17:21

Coming up

All events

The first outreach dates get posted here.

An outreach team standing outside their church

We are offering to send you people.

You do not pay anything, join anything, or change anything about your church. You tell us you will welcome the people we meet on your streets, and from that day every outreach team in the county walks them to your door.

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Looking for a church?

Maybe someone met you on the street, maybe you found this on your own. Tell us where you live and what you need. A church on your side of town reaches out within the week, and you have a room to walk into, people who learn your name, and somewhere to keep growing.

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