When you read historical accounts of Jesus in the Gospels, do you notice how many of them he is out with people?  He is walking around the market places.  He is along the Sea of Galilee.  (I wonder if Jesus ever went swimming.)  He was in the temple.  He went were people worked, played and worshiped.

Jesus told us to do the things he did.  So we take our faith in him were we go.  We reach out to our community.  We don't want to be tied to our Sunday service, we want to get out of the building, to be the hands and feet of our leader. 

One of the things we do on a monthly basis is serve a hot meal to our homeless population at the Lawrence Community Shelter.  Currently, we do this every fourth Thursday at 8pm.  It is really cool.  We find the guests genuinely appreciate the meal.  They are not the only ones that benefit from it though.  God created us to serve.  By serving others, we fulfill some of our own longings to have significance.  We benefit just as much, if not more, than the guests we serve.