Saintly CEO: You’re Called to Build Community | Parish & Neighborhood (Part 2 of 3)
Tactical Steps to Build Up Your Community at Your Parish and in Your Neighborhood
Happy Monday folks! We’re back with part II of our community buildign series. If you missed last week’s please read it first for the context.
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Building Community At Your Parish & In Your Neighborhood
Last week, we explored the theology of community, and building it for your family. But once the family is in order, where do we go next?
The Parish and your Neighborhood.
In America, most parishes have been decaying for decades. We are in a period of rebuilding. However, without a large staff of clergy, rebuilding is in our hands. We need to pick up our tools and start building.
Embracing this mentality is a counter to the consumerism behavior that our society promotes currently.
The good news, getting started doing this, is actually super easy.
Community Building In The Pews:
Invite: When was the last time you invited a family from the parish over for dinner?
Connect: Have you had coffee with a fellow business owner from your church?
Organize: Start a rosary group or a simple study. These things require almost no effort, but they create communion. You can’t love a community you don’t actually know.
Community Building In Your Actual Neighborhood:
Most of us forget that our neighbors, like, actual neighbors, are our mission field. And by extension your street and entire neighborhood. How many of us know our neighbors to any serious degree?
Here are some ways to build community in your neighborhood.
Host Dinners: Invite neighbors over for dinner to get to know them.
Organize Outings: Invite several of your neighbors to a local event or museum to spend time together.
Host a Block Party: This is a tad more work but a great way to light up the neighborhood and build shared community.
Maintain Your Yard: This may seem silly, but simply creating a beautiful space has an effect on the community. How many folks will make their yard nicer when they see you putting in the effort.
There are many benefits to this including a safer community, people you can rely on, friends for your children, and increasing your network. But the most critical component to this is, through having exposure to your life, they have the opportunity to be touched by Christ through you — assuming you’re living your faith.
If you have a brick-and-mortar location, the same applies to that neighborhood as well. Even if it’s in an industrial park, there are ways to build community and welcome that exposure to your way of life. You could host a taco truck on Tuesdays drawing in more local employees etc. There are a lot of things you can do with physical locations — if you need ideas, reach out and we’ll chat.
To reiterate, none of this is done as a ‘scheme’ to convert people. This is done because it ultimately benefits our society. But, if we are living out our faith in practice, it will create the opportunities to invite people further into the faith. To invite them to mass and more.
Next week, we’ll wrap this up by covering how you build community within your business and among other Catholic business owners.
God Bless & Happy Building
~Silas Mähner
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✍️ Keaton Tucker hasn’t launched anything yet but keep an eye on him. He’s working on something pretty fascinating.
🚗 Zuhair Madanat runs Auto Glass Experts in North Carolina. He’s grown the business rapidly and takes a very human-centric approach to how he runs the business. He credits God for everything. A very inspiring figure.
📚 Pat Neve is a fellow podcaster, substacker, and author, who just today, released a book called Save Your Parish. Check it out on Amazon today. We’ll likely have him on the show soon to discuss this idea.
💸 Dan Hamlet runs 360 Integrated Financial. Which he started after deciding he wanted to focus on Faith-Integrated investing. He even has a book on it.
⚡️ Stephen Filippo and his wife run JMJ Power. An org that helps churches and schools save money on their electric bill. He also runs a real estate outfit.
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