Hope for the 'Ham

Many of the best ideas are simply copies of someone else's brilliance. At least that's the way it typically goes with me. Not much originality here, I just don't have the brain cells.

This has been the case with Oak Mountain's Hope for the 'Ham grant proposal for our LIFE Groups. "Hope for the 'Ham" is simply a repeat of Mars Hill in Seattle's MicroMissions project (albeit with slightly less funding). What we are hoping to do is to encourage our LIFE Groups to fulfill the third part of our church's vision statement, the "Showing grace to all" part, by providing seed funding for ministries of outreach and mercy. The goal is simply to enable our members, through their small group communities, to love their neighborhoods well through acts of gospel-motivated service. In other words, to show grace to the "least" and the "lost" whom we cross paths with every day.

Read an example of what this has looked like for one of Mars Hill's community groups here. Be inspired and then light a fire under your LIFE Group. Don't wait for someone else to lead.