feeding fort myers

Yesterday at NLC, we announced that we were launching, “Feeding Ft. Myers!” This is going to be a great opportunity for everyone at NLC to impact their community in a real way.

Here are the details, in case you missed it or want to review:

- We want 100 people to host a block party throughout SWFL in their own community on April 4. By block party, we mean a ‘party’ where you invite all of your neighbors on your ‘block’ or neighborhood.

- At the block party, we want you to cook out/have food, hang out, and get to know your neighbors. This is just a cool way to know who you live around and really connect with them.

- We want all of your neighbors who come to the block party to bring CANS – lots of them. Our goal is to have each block party collect 100 cans. If we do that, we will raise 10,000 CANS to help feed the people of Ft. Myers and the SWFL Region!

- On April 5th, we’re all going to bring the cans to church to collect them and then give them to the Fort Myers Soup Kitchen, where 10,000 cans will feed the people there for almost a WHOLE MONTH!

So, here’s what we want YOU to do:

- Pray about hosting a block party in your neighborhood. If you don’t get a CLEAR yes, then I’ll clarify for you and say that the answer is probably yes because the very heart of this is so close to God’s heart!

So, here’s what WE’RE going to do:

- Make it EASY for you to host a block party. THIS Sunday, we’ll have Host Kits for you to pick up at the resource table. We’ll give you EVERYTHING that you’ll need to plan your Block Party!

- If you will have a hard time financially, we’ll tell you this Sunday about a way that we’ll help to off set the cost!

- Tomorrow afternoon, www.feedingfortmyers.com will be up and running – check it out for more info.

By doing this, NLC has the potential to impact the lives of THOUSANDS of people by meeting their need on a very practical level. Also, it’s going to give all of us an opportunity to meet and connect with our neighbors and include them in something HUGE! Not only that, but it will provide all of us an opportunity to invite some of our neighbors to experience the Sunday morning environment at NLC that so many of us love which will hopefully spark their interest in going deeper with Jesus!

This is going to be awesome!