Everyday Opportunities to Bless Your City
As God’s kids, living together as his family here on Earth, we’ve been called to serve others—not as a duty, but as a natural overflow of our identity in Christ. And the truth is, some of the smallest, simplest acts of service can make the biggest impact in people’s lives and in our cities.
This week on the Everyday Disciple Podcast, we’ll show you how serving your city in little, everyday ways can provide both a picture and an experience of the gospel. You’ll hear 12 powerful, yet simple ways to improve your neighborhood and bless the people around you. And these aren’t hard or expensive—they’re things anyone can do, starting today!
In This Episode You’ll Learn:
- Why serving others puts God’s character on display in the world.
- How small acts of service often spark reconciliation and restoration.
- 12 simple things you can do right now to bring life to your city.
- How your family or group can jump in and start serving this week.
From this episode:
“Sometimes it only takes a few lights to completely transform a city block. A bunch of us did this in our neighborhood in Tacoma… what a difference! Casting light on a forgotten building or dark alley can bring a renewed sense of appreciation and safety within the community.”
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Links and Resources Mentioned in This Episode:
Coaching and Mentorship in Missional Living by Caesar and his wife Tina
Resources for missional living and group training – Missio Publishing
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Transcript
Whenever we lay down our life, our preferences, we give our time, our talent, our treasure, our stuff away, like wow, that, that's a picture of the gospel, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:God gave his very best and he gave his son, and every day he blesses us and every day our heartbeats, it's another day of grace.
Caesar Kalinowski:I just remember thinking so much of it goes right back to Genesis and sort of this mandate of like, Hey, you are humans.
Caesar Kalinowski:You're image bearers my image and I. I created you to be like me.
Caesar Kalinowski:Mm-hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I put you in charge of everything and you get to name the stuff.
Caesar Kalinowski:So take care of everything.
Caesar Kalinowski:And we've talked about the human job description is bear God's image.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yep.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:You just, we do, we've created that, uh, hang out with God, we get to and take care of his stuff.
Caesar Kalinowski:And that includes people.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:And every one of these things in this list of 101 small ways.
Caesar Kalinowski:And they really are, they're all ways to either hang out with people and take care of people or take care of the planet or provide opportunity for relationships to be either restored, renewed, or found.
Caesar Kalinowski:I was like, man, I wish this was put out by the church, and I wish the church around the world were doing a whole lot more of.
Heath Hollensbe:Welcome to the Everyday Disciple Podcast, where you'll learn how to live with greater intentionality and an integrated faith that naturally fits into every area of life.
Heath Hollensbe:In other words, discipleship as a lifestyle.
Heath Hollensbe:This is the stuff your parents, pastors and seminary professors probably forgot to tell you.
Heath Hollensbe:And now here's your host, Caesar Kalinowski.
Heath Hollensbe:You know, one of the nerd things that I'm super into, and I know it's lame, is I love once a day or so going on the National Park system and looking at the live webcams of like Mount Rainier and Mount Baker and it's just awful, bro.
Heath Hollensbe:We got the snow, huh?
Heath Hollensbe:It's awesome.
Heath Hollensbe:Man.
Heath Hollensbe:Of the Rainier, were you ever like a skiing, snowboarding kind of guy?
Caesar Kalinowski:I've been, , downhill skiing one exact time in my life.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:I was in middle school and I went on a youth group trip.
Caesar Kalinowski:Oh man.
Caesar Kalinowski:Classic youth group trip, but bunches of fun all day.
Caesar Kalinowski:Heavy turner burn at night message.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know?
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:And, and I, I remember that it up on the mountain, it, I never skied, so I don't know how to ski, but I, I, I remember hearing like, Hey, powder soft snow, easier to ski in if it melts and freezes.
Caesar Kalinowski:Really hard Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:To navigate.
Caesar Kalinowski:It got real sunny that day and got up to about 60 and the mountain melted and then froze.
Heath Hollensbe:Oh no.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so it was like glare ice all the way down.
Caesar Kalinowski:No, no.
Caesar Kalinowski:Not enough snow plowing, you know?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:In the world with my skis to slow me down.
Caesar Kalinowski:I remember the first couple runs, even though it was like the bunny hill or whatever, just like lightning fast, straight down, straight line.
Caesar Kalinowski:No, I don't know how to turn.
Caesar Kalinowski:And, and I remember like, like I was in middle school, some like sophomore, junior year, beautiful.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's the youth group girl, older girl who's, I dunno, gorgeous in my memory.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:She took pity upon me and taught me how to ski.
Caesar Kalinowski:Aw.
Caesar Kalinowski:It was the best day of my life.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's awesome.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's the only time I've ever skied.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:Wasn't that good that I wanted to ski after that.
Caesar Kalinowski:I've done a little cross country now and then for exercise, but I don't, and now I'm like, I have made it my whole life without breaking things.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:And they all work good.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Except for when I crashed the Harley, you know, I broke my ankle, but it's all
Heath Hollensbe:fixed.
Heath Hollensbe:I don't, you know, see, I can't do skiing 'cause I, I don't like things that shoot my legs out from each other that fast.
Heath Hollensbe:You know?
Heath Hollensbe:It's like, so I've snowboarded twice.
Heath Hollensbe:The first time was terrible.
Heath Hollensbe:I was raised, we weren't raised with a ton of money.
Heath Hollensbe:We went on a youth group thing up to Big Bear, California.
Heath Hollensbe:Uh, I didn't know anything about it other than all we could afford was jeans.
Heath Hollensbe:And by the end of the day I decided bunny rams are not for me.
Heath Hollensbe:So I wanna take a little bit of a risk.
Heath Hollensbe:I was drenched and frozen and like crawling down the mountains.
Caesar Kalinowski:I do remember this in high school that all the kids who had the money to go skiing all the time.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:That they had cool ski jackets.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yep.
Caesar Kalinowski:And their zipper.
Caesar Kalinowski:Pole had a million ski lift tags on it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Oh yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like do you remember that?
Caesar Kalinowski:War wounds?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like it was like a backstage pass.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like look at all the ski tags this guy's got.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I remember somehow, I don't know who I think, I think it was like my aunt or my uncle.
Caesar Kalinowski:You're going skiing.
Caesar Kalinowski:You have ski jacket.
Caesar Kalinowski:No.
Caesar Kalinowski:They bought me a really cool ski jacket, so I went looking like I kind of had it.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I remember just like borrow, like anybody's like ski tag.
Caesar Kalinowski:You don't, that you don't with that text.
Caesar Kalinowski:So when I, I came back from my one ski trip with my cool ski jacket.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, tons of tags.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Look at you man.
Caesar Kalinowski:You're one of the coolest kids.
Caesar Kalinowski:Faker.
Caesar Kalinowski:Poser.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:Hey dude.
Heath Hollensbe:So a couple weeks back I posted an article that I read and I absolutely loved it, but I, I ended up posting it.
Heath Hollensbe:A link of it on Facebook and a topic was about 101 small ways that you can improve your city.
Heath Hollensbe:I remember, yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:Awesome article.
Heath Hollensbe:So
Caesar Kalinowski:good.
Caesar Kalinowski:It
Heath Hollensbe:was just really great.
Heath Hollensbe:How long did it
Caesar Kalinowski:take 'em to come up with that stuff?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:101 ways, like all so good.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:On how
Heath Hollensbe:to bless your city.
Heath Hollensbe:Anyone could do it.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:It was some really super simple things.
Heath Hollensbe:There were some great ideas and, and it, what I loved about it was that it was ways that.
Heath Hollensbe:Individually or as a family, or even as a community, like a Missional Community, you could bring Shalom and this glimpse of Eden into the neighborhood.
Heath Hollensbe:Uh, and one of the things that you did was you, uh, immediately referenced how this could provide a bit of the gospel of reconciliation and restoration.
Heath Hollensbe:Hmm.
Heath Hollensbe:Uh, and good news for our cities and neighborhoods.
Heath Hollensbe:How did you connect those dots?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Well, for one, again, this, that article is not written.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's not like a Christian ministry wrote it or whatever.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's people that do urban planning and just help cities be great.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:But as I was reading through all the things, I couldn't help but thinking like, oh man, but damn man, that helps people that don't have that, or like that gives a really non-threatening way for these types of people to hang out together and have a common cause, or wow, that's like just leftover time or stuff.
Caesar Kalinowski:But now we get to bless the whole neighborhood or city.
Caesar Kalinowski:I mean, and so I looked at like going like, hmm, whenever we lay down our life, our preferences, we give our time, our talent, our treasure, our stuff away.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like wow, that's like.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's a picture of the gospel.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:God gave his very best and he gave his son, and every day he blesses us and every day our heartbeats, it's another day of grace.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:And, and I look at like all the needs in my life that get met and, and, and I think about how I need community and I think about how I want the planet taken care of.
Caesar Kalinowski:And a lot of 'em have to do with, you know, green space or Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:Creating parks or restoring parks or clever things.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I, I just remember thinking so much of it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Goes right back to Genesis and sort of this mandate of like, Hey, you are humans.
Caesar Kalinowski:You're image bearers my image, and I I created you to be like me.
Caesar Kalinowski:Mm-hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I put you in charge of everything and you get to name the stuff.
Caesar Kalinowski:So, so take care of everything.
Caesar Kalinowski:And we've talked about the human job description is bear God's image.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yep.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:You just, we do.
Caesar Kalinowski:And we've created that, uh, hang out with God.
Caesar Kalinowski:We get to and take care of his stuff.
Caesar Kalinowski:And that includes people.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:And every one of these things in this list of 101 small ways.
Caesar Kalinowski:And they really are.
Caesar Kalinowski:They're not like these, oh, I'd have to quit my job to do.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's like, no, they're all real doable.
Caesar Kalinowski:They're all ways to either hang out with people, you know, and take care of people or take care of the planet or provide opportunity for relationships to be either restored, renewed, or found.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I so all, so much of this, I was like, man, I, I wish this was put out.
Caesar Kalinowski:By the church and I wish that churches across the country were doing a whole lot more of it.
Caesar Kalinowski:So as we talked about that, going like, which ones do we wanna do?
Caesar Kalinowski:And which ones like, should we like, suggest, you know, to c communities to do, we were like, we gotta do an episode on it and just ring the bell and, and give some of our favorites and, you know.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:You know, one of the things I loved most about the article is that it was.
Heath Hollensbe:It was accessible to everybody.
Heath Hollensbe:Young, old, rich, poor, um, creative artists, uh, you know, handyman.
Heath Hollensbe:There was group activities, stuff he could do alone, stuff he could do as a family.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:Uh, and back in what episode 180 5, we were talking about the concept of, of justice and reconciliation and, and this doing justice rather than just demanding justice, but Right.
Heath Hollensbe:I think doing justice really is an all hands on deck approach.
Heath Hollensbe:Would you agree?
Heath Hollensbe:I totally
Caesar Kalinowski:do.
Caesar Kalinowski:And what was the episode again?
Caesar Kalinowski:We talked about that episode 180 5.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, we talked about loving mercy and doing justice and in that, if you heard the episode, you might remember that we talked about the word justice in Hebrew is the same word.
Caesar Kalinowski:As righteousness.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:And they both mean to restore.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Or to return.
Caesar Kalinowski:And so all these things that so much of it have to do with repurposing and restoring and restoration.
Caesar Kalinowski:They really are doing justice.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, they really are.
Caesar Kalinowski:And, and go and check out the whole list.
Caesar Kalinowski:We'll give you a way to get that, but I'm gonna highlight some of them.
Caesar Kalinowski:But you'll see how each of these really is good news for a neighborhood or a city and.
Caesar Kalinowski:For us, who gets to be the bringers of the good news.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:I love it, man.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay, so let's go through
Heath Hollensbe:some of
Caesar Kalinowski:these,
Heath Hollensbe:like not all 101, so it's not gonna be
Caesar Kalinowski:a long episode.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:So that article, uh, they organized the 101 Ways to Improve Your City.
Caesar Kalinowski:They organized 'em under six categories.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:Here's what they were, they were on your street.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Love that.
Caesar Kalinowski:In your neighborhood, at your parks, along your route.
Caesar Kalinowski:So like, kind of along the way every day.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, with your neighbors and in your community.
Caesar Kalinowski:So cool, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:So what I've done is I've picked 12 for us to look at, like two from each category.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I'm gonna be moving pretty quickly here.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:Just gonna say that they're all gold, but like, again, I'll give you a link to be able to get to them.
Caesar Kalinowski:So let's do it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, I'll just tell you the number that they gave it in the list, uh, of the cool idea and why I liked it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay?
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:So here's the first one.
Caesar Kalinowski:Number four, create a little free library.
Caesar Kalinowski:Love that man.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Libraries, you know, they change and they evolve over time.
Caesar Kalinowski:But the pleasure and joy of reading books, it's the same as forever.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, where my son lives, uh, up in Seattle, all throughout their neighborhood there's these little, like, they look like little mini garages, like little cabins.
Heath Hollensbe:We've got 'em too on our
Caesar Kalinowski:like, all do, they're a little book lending library.
Caesar Kalinowski:Love it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Why is it good news?
Caesar Kalinowski:Because when you invest in other people's lives and you give away something that was meaningful to you.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:And then you can see the neighbor got that book and now you can talk to 'em about that.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's a blessing, man.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah, right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, the,
Heath Hollensbe:uh.
Heath Hollensbe:Don't just stuff 'em too with Bibles.
Heath Hollensbe:Like, don't go to Goodwill.
Heath Hollensbe:'cause that's what's happening in the ones in our city.
Heath Hollensbe:It's like you got some really good books and then you know, the Christians have been by, 'cause there's like 15 used Bibles that somebody collected at Goodwill.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:I mean I think it'd be great to leave a Bible, but Yeah, I don't think you need to turn it, don't overstuff 'em into, turn into the the bottom drawer at every hotel, you know?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:Number seven, plant a tree.
Caesar Kalinowski:Huh?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:How about it?
Caesar Kalinowski:Right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Shade, serenity, sustainability.
Caesar Kalinowski:The garden, like tending to things, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Trees add so much to a neighborhood, to a city, to the parkway.
Caesar Kalinowski:Think about parkway.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's that grass between your sidewalk in the street.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:What if you, you know, saved up and bought like three or four trees and put 'em along your parkway or even talk to your neighbors into pitching in.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:But you get 'em, get 'em in the right season and don't get the biggest tree in the world.
Caesar Kalinowski:They grow.
Caesar Kalinowski:Hint.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:And uh, they're cheap.
Caesar Kalinowski:So plant a tree.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:There again, good group activity.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like, why are your friends doing this?
Caesar Kalinowski:We just thought it'd be beautiful.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now, if you're planting in front of someone else's house, I just wanna say Get, get permission.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Or if you're gonna go to a park and you want to add trees, ask the, the park will never say, no city.
Caesar Kalinowski:Just dig them up.
Caesar Kalinowski:But ask them what kind of tree they want so the roots aren't causing problems and all that kind.
Caesar Kalinowski:So dig into that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Well,
Heath Hollensbe:so our neighbor has a, has two cherry trees, and it was an older couple that lived there that planted them.
Heath Hollensbe:And I remember asking like, what, why are they there?
Heath Hollensbe:And he said.
Heath Hollensbe:As a kid, I just loved cherries and I wanted anybody who walked through the neighborhood just to feel like they could just walk down the sidewalk and pull cherries off my tree.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know,
Heath Hollensbe:like
Caesar Kalinowski:blessing to the city.
Caesar Kalinowski:This summer we got so many apples and pears from the neighborhood.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's amazing.
Caesar Kalinowski:And neighbors were all exactly that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:And you know what, help yourself.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'd walk, I'd Tina and I would walk and get in.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'd take my grandson Pat and we'd walk and little basket and get 'em and it was just a blast.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yep.
Caesar Kalinowski:Alright.
Caesar Kalinowski:Uh, here's another one.
Caesar Kalinowski:And then on their list, it's number 16, it says get lit. So sometimes it only takes a few lights like in your neighborhood to completely transform your block and all that.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I remember that being exactly the case when we were living in Tacoma, uh, in our neighborhood, older homes, not a lot of street lights.
Caesar Kalinowski:A whole bunch of us just decided in our Michel community and in our community, and we talked a bunch of the neighbors into it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Let's start leaving our front porch light on every night.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, here, I'll buy you the bulb if you want.
Caesar Kalinowski:There's the new fluorescent ones.
Caesar Kalinowski:They last like a billion years.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:They cost like 15 cents a year.
Caesar Kalinowski:I think we can afford it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Here's, here's a dollar.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'll buy the next two decades, you know?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Of your power.
Caesar Kalinowski:And we all of a sudden, the whole neighborhood was transformed instead of being weird and dark at night.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:All lit up, very inviting.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's cool.
Caesar Kalinowski:Less crime, all of it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:So get lit. Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:I love that.
Caesar Kalinowski:That was number 16.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right?
Caesar Kalinowski:So shine a light.
Caesar Kalinowski:Help people feel safe, help your neighborhood feel, you know, more inviting.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's just, it's great.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:Number 26, create a fit path.
Caesar Kalinowski:A fit path.
Caesar Kalinowski:What's a fit path?
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, a city fit path, um, is, uh, like a public space or even maybe a route to your city, uh, that you kind of turn into, um, a place that you can do physical movement, positive, you know, do like exercises.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, people will come and do it together.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sometimes people will put up signs and it, other times there'll be one little box that has.
Caesar Kalinowski:A sheet of paper that says here's the route and how to do it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:Check out the article.
Caesar Kalinowski:There's links and how to set one up.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's amazing.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, that's great.
Caesar Kalinowski:But think about in your own neighborhood, if you said, Hey, here's just a little thing.
Caesar Kalinowski:When you get to this thing stretch here, do five sit ups here on this little bench.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, lean on this and do some like kind of knee pushups, whatever.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, whatever.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, people will do it and then you'll get to talk to them.
Caesar Kalinowski:You get to hang out, you get to build community.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's good news when you help people stay fit and healthy.
Caesar Kalinowski:Help 'em do it and it's free.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Pretty cool.
Caesar Kalinowski:Do it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Uh, number 32 was fix up a local park.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:So think about it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Everybody almost has a, a park that has something that's like barely functional.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, the equipment's a little rusty and weird.
Caesar Kalinowski:Maybe it needs some painting.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, would make maybe a new basketball court court be something that like a mic initial committee could pitch in and get done, or go out and fundraise for, spend all summer raising it and do it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yep.
Caesar Kalinowski:I don't know.
Caesar Kalinowski:Uh,
Heath Hollensbe:trimming back the, uh, the bushes, the raspberry bushes that are encroaching and all those crazy sticker
Caesar Kalinowski:bushes.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:All that stuff.
Caesar Kalinowski:We've done all that stuff.
Caesar Kalinowski:All those kind of things.
Caesar Kalinowski:And they are a super blessing.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now that one's a little bigger, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:You see some of these are just boom, easy.
Caesar Kalinowski:Others you might be doing as a community or get your whole neighborhood to rally around it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Create a pocket park or like, like you said, you know, put in a, put in a new basketball court or something like that.
Caesar Kalinowski:So there's links there too on how to.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, get help with all that.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I'll tell you too, places like Home Depot Yep.
Caesar Kalinowski:And other, you know, Lowe's and homes, you know, supply and fix it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Stores and all.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Usually willing to help.
Caesar Kalinowski:They're very much so.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:They have, they've set aside, just so you know, they, they've set aside budgets for these kind of things and they generally wanna make that donation to a nonprofit of some sort.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:So connected to.
Caesar Kalinowski:A Salvation Army project or your church or something.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Even if
Heath Hollensbe:you can't do the whole basketball court, most of those basketball nets just need an $8 net on Amazon.
Heath Hollensbe:Prime paints the
Caesar Kalinowski:backboard.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, retrip the thing.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yep.
Caesar Kalinowski:Put a bench in easy.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Put a bench in so people you know.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's, that's a few hundred bucks.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:So number 36.
Caesar Kalinowski:I love this plan.
Caesar Kalinowski:A popup dog park.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's cool.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like, you know, a pop-up party or a pop-up restaurant.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's not always there 24 7.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right.
Caesar Kalinowski:But if your neighborhood doesn't have a place for dogs to run free, um.
Caesar Kalinowski:There nothing that a few yards of temporary fencing can't fix.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:So you can create a pop-up dog park that becomes like really popular.
Caesar Kalinowski:And some people, like I, there was one in the article they talked about, um, I think it was in California, that, uh, a farmer's market.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, every city has 'em.
Caesar Kalinowski:We've got a bunch of 'em here.
Caesar Kalinowski:They're not all year.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, they're not every neighborhood.
Caesar Kalinowski:But what they did was it, those are generally adjacent to a parking lot or a field.
Caesar Kalinowski:They set up a little of that orange fencing, you know?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:And they do a pop-up dog park.
Caesar Kalinowski:So then people love it and they come and they bring their pets and all.
Caesar Kalinowski:So beautiful.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, and sometimes the people in the neighborhood in the city will say, we really need a dog park, and it can become something more permanent.
Caesar Kalinowski:So it's pretty cool.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Number 41 was, uh, map a 40 minute walking circle around your house.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's cool.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Measure, uh, it says measure and draw a two mile radius, a circle around your house to determine like your, like your walking threshold, you know, and the places that you can easily walk.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, and what, what the point is, is that you, and maybe your neighbors will realize that there's a lot more local, you know, amenities in stores closer than you think.
Caesar Kalinowski:Most people can walk a couple of miles and really you walk a mile at a quick pace.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's 15 to 17 minutes.
Caesar Kalinowski:If you're crawling, it's.
Caesar Kalinowski:20 minutes a mile.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:So you can do two miles and 40 minutes and, uh, you'll be a lot more likely to hoof it, you know, and walk it and support local businesses if everybody already knows that.
Caesar Kalinowski:So I, I love the idea.
Caesar Kalinowski:Create a 40 minute walking circle.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, that's great.
Caesar Kalinowski:Around your house just for yourself, but then maybe share it right.
Caesar Kalinowski:So, um, number 54 was just ride a bike.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's like, just start riding a bike once in a while and said, yeah, riding a bike really can save the planet.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's, it, it cited this, uh, study done by the u University of California that said, shifting more people in cities to bicycles, not like everybody and all the time, but just if more people started doing it and cutting their car, use accordingly can reduce, uh, urban.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like CO2 emissions and all that, but like 50% worldwide in the next 30 years.
Heath Hollensbe:It's massive.
Heath Hollensbe:That's massive.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know?
Caesar Kalinowski:Now that's not gonna work for everybody we know.
Caesar Kalinowski:I know We got listeners that live in cities and they totally could bike.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:And other people like, dude, it'd be like, it'd be, you know, an hour and a half to work, you know, or, but if you can, or on the weekends.
Caesar Kalinowski:What if you started to make a decision?
Caesar Kalinowski:Just let's start riding a bike.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's cool.
Caesar Kalinowski:Number 50 57.
Caesar Kalinowski:This might be my favorite on the list.
Caesar Kalinowski:Uh, I said organize a bar, crawl some of our listeners tuning out.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like what?
Caesar Kalinowski:You know they drink?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, they drink.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, so, you know, vote your conscience on this.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:We're not here to talk anybody into anything they don't want to do or shouldn't do, but.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, we've done it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, you can, you can organize a bar crawl and, uh, there's even like places in the article give you links on how to set that up and all.
Caesar Kalinowski:But, um, some people do it as like a, an after work mixer.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, at a certain night of the week they'll do it some, I know, uh, where we live, people do it, believe it or not, as fitness events.
Caesar Kalinowski:They'll go for like a, like a 10 mile bike ride or like a five mile jog or whatever.
Caesar Kalinowski:And then they'll, they'll hit like two or three bars.
Caesar Kalinowski:The first one will have a smoothie and then the second one they'll have this, and then they'll have a beer at the last one or something like that.
Caesar Kalinowski:'cause they're, it's fitness, you know, or whatever.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, and, uh, it's, it's.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's awesome.
Caesar Kalinowski:And, and you can get to know, like the patrons, the, of course the pubs, the bars will love it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Uh, we actually, uh, I was in Missional Community.
Caesar Kalinowski:We modified that pub crawl and we turned it into a prayer pub crawl.
Caesar Kalinowski:Huh.
Caesar Kalinowski:And since our mission was kind of the people and the staff and everybody in, in our neighborhood, you know, and all the, the pubs and restaurants Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:And all that, we just would do a per pub crawl where we'd hit two or three of them.
Caesar Kalinowski:We'd go in there, talk to the staff, see how they're doing, talk to the locals, get, get updated on what's happening.
Caesar Kalinowski:And then we'd go outside and we'd pray for them.
Caesar Kalinowski:Huh.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, not making a big deal out of it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:Not a big spectacle.
Caesar Kalinowski:Uh, and we'd pray for them and then we'd walk to the next place, you know?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Have a beer there.
Caesar Kalinowski:Talk to everybody.
Caesar Kalinowski:Pray for them.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, so cool.
Caesar Kalinowski:So, yeah, I mean, so organize a bar, crawl, uh, there's some elaborate stuff.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:Biking ones, running clubs, there's a lot of them.
Caesar Kalinowski:And, uh, yeah, so that's a cool one.
Caesar Kalinowski:Love that.
Caesar Kalinowski:62. Um, I almost did this once in life, but I didn't launch an oral history project.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:There's a thing called Story Corps out there, it looks like corpse, but StoryCorp, there's studs, turkel.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, they, there's a rich tradition of storytelling out there and people doing time capsules of like life and neighborhoods, especially real ethnic neighborhoods and all that, documenting your neighbor's stories.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sort of helps preserve the fabric and history of that neighborhood and, and it tells people that they matter.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:And it tells 'em that their story's important.
Caesar Kalinowski:It honors people, it validates their story and worth, and it builds like a commonality, like amongst people and trust.
Caesar Kalinowski:And you can do it really simply.
Caesar Kalinowski:You can just do it on an iPhone these days.
Caesar Kalinowski:You can.
Caesar Kalinowski:Download online lists of questions that you'd ask people to help document their things.
Caesar Kalinowski:You got, if you, you know, have the skill, uh, and ability, you can create just a little local website.
Caesar Kalinowski:You could start a Facebook group where you just upload 'em there sure as audio or video file, um, all that stuff.
Caesar Kalinowski:But launching an oral history project gives you, man, think about you get to talk to everybody.
Caesar Kalinowski:You get to know their story, you get to bear with them.
Caesar Kalinowski:I mean, oh gosh.
Heath Hollensbe:You know, 1, 2, 2 resources there.
Heath Hollensbe:Uh, a lot of times your city hall, like the website, so like our, we live in Fair Crest.
Heath Hollensbe:The city of Fair Crest has a history of the city and they've also got a historian.
Heath Hollensbe:Oh wow.
Heath Hollensbe:It's a good place to get involved, ask some questions, and then there's also this, uh, images of America series.
Heath Hollensbe:Go to Amazon and type in your city, images of America, and there's.
Heath Hollensbe:Detailed and almost every city detailed pictures and history of your
Caesar Kalinowski:city.
Caesar Kalinowski:So, so take up the banner for like your neighborhood.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Or a chunk of your city learn and just get, learn it to know everybody.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:We came so close to doing this.
Caesar Kalinowski:We, we actually had gotten the URL and all that and we were gonna do the aroma it was called The aroma.
Caesar Kalinowski:Aroma because Tacoma Aroma.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's awesome man.
Caesar Kalinowski:Alright, next one.
Caesar Kalinowski:Uh, number 78.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um.
Caesar Kalinowski:This is great.
Caesar Kalinowski:It says, here's how you can, here's how you can improve your city and bless your city.
Caesar Kalinowski:Smile particularly at strangers, and then it goes on and said, if you're feeling really southern enough, actually speak to people.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:I was
Heath Hollensbe:gonna
Caesar Kalinowski:say most southerners are like.
Caesar Kalinowski:People don't
Heath Hollensbe:smile everywhere.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now, I, I can remember not too many years back, um, where I would walk from my home to, uh, a building that we owned in community.
Caesar Kalinowski:And we, we were, Soma was using it and we were Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Doing all kinds of different things.
Caesar Kalinowski:And it was almost like a community center.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:But it was only literally about a
Caesar Kalinowski:60-90 second walk from my front door to the door, you know?
Caesar Kalinowski:Oh wow.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I would walk past the, there was a Salvation Army there and people in line for food and then there was some housing there, transitional.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I would walk past a ton of people every single day.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I was usually just on my way.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I remember like the Holy Spirit saying, those are image bears.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like greet them.
Caesar Kalinowski:Every one of them is, has got a bit of me there, you know, it's like, and so I started just greeting everybody and talking to 'em and, and when we lived in Manhattan after that, that was different there.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:A lot of people.
Caesar Kalinowski:But I had the same habit and people were just like, what are you doing right?
Caesar Kalinowski:But smile.
Caesar Kalinowski:And say hi to people.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like just that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Make it your jam.
Caesar Kalinowski:Make it your thing.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yep.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like we're gonna greet everybody.
Caesar Kalinowski:Absolutely, man.
Caesar Kalinowski:Love that.
Caesar Kalinowski:And a personal tip is don't ask a question.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like, Hey, how are you doing today?
Caesar Kalinowski:'cause that's like that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now you're imposing and then they have to give an answer.
Caesar Kalinowski:But you can just go, Hey, good to see you.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Have a great day.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, just like make a statement, you know?
Caesar Kalinowski:But you'll be surprised.
Caesar Kalinowski:You see the same person long enough, then you can turn it into a question.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:So it's good news when you honor someone.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I mean, I think about this like this.
Caesar Kalinowski:It seems so simple, but like we walk our neighborhood a lot and we take Patton, our grandson.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:And you know, he's just like this little light bulb right now.
Caesar Kalinowski:Bubbly.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:He's just a bubbly kid.
Caesar Kalinowski:He will stop and wave down every single car.
Caesar Kalinowski:His favorite garbage man, the recycling guy, truck driver.
Caesar Kalinowski:They all know him.
Caesar Kalinowski:He makes their freaking day.
Caesar Kalinowski:Every week just, and he loves it.
Caesar Kalinowski:He loves seeing the garbage truck dump the cans.
Caesar Kalinowski:And it's, it's fun.
Caesar Kalinowski:He loves it.
Caesar Kalinowski:They love it.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'm like, how easy to make someone's day.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's not that different when adults do it, by the way.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Uh, 70, uh, the last one I'm gonna give you is 79 and number 79.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's screen.
Caesar Kalinowski:A movie outdoors.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Some of you have done this already.
Caesar Kalinowski:Uh, we have a neighbor in the neighborhood.
Caesar Kalinowski:Oh, I just moved though.
Caesar Kalinowski:And they, they did it all the time and it was great.
Caesar Kalinowski:Someone's gotta pick up that van.
Caesar Kalinowski:We just did it a few weeks back
Heath Hollensbe:with the, uh, world Series.
Heath Hollensbe:Boom.
Heath Hollensbe:Put it on the side of somebody's, uh, their garage door.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:It's a white door.
Heath Hollensbe:People are driving down the street, hit the brakes like whatcha are guys doing?
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:Come grab, sit with us for a second.
Heath Hollensbe:There's a guy in my
Caesar Kalinowski:neighborhood.
Caesar Kalinowski:You open up his garage and he's got that whole, uh, digital golf thing.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Looks awesome.
Caesar Kalinowski:A golf thing.
Caesar Kalinowski:Oh, yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Where you can golf like nine holes right in his garage.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's like, you know, you hit the screen and all anyway, so, uh, you know.
Caesar Kalinowski:Having like an impromptu movie night's not that hard to organize.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, it really isn't.
Caesar Kalinowski:And you can have just your neighbors, uh, or you can go a little bigger.
Caesar Kalinowski:You can have a reason, you can do it around a day off, like, uh, you know, if it's still nice enough out where you live or whatever time of year on a holiday night or the night before a holiday.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:So the kids don't have to come up.
Caesar Kalinowski:And in the article you, there's a link to get a guide on how to set up your own screening and it gives you all kinds of tips and how to do it on the cheap and all that.
Caesar Kalinowski:So that's a cool idea too.
Caesar Kalinowski:Anybody can do that alone, but you can also do that as a family or a group of families or your small group or, or Michel community could host that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:I, I like predictable patterns we've talked about on the show.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'd say like, do a six week run and do always do family movies and do a six week run of family movies throughout the summer or something like that.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:It makes
Heath Hollensbe:it, it's so fun too.
Heath Hollensbe:So fun.
Heath Hollensbe:People come out, they bring their lawns.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:I guess on a practical level, how would you go about getting into these rhythms?
Heath Hollensbe:How would you, let's say it was your Missional Community.
Heath Hollensbe:Mm-hmm.
Heath Hollensbe:And you wanted to present some of this.
Heath Hollensbe:Would you present it to the group?
Heath Hollensbe:Would you find your natural giftings?
Heath Hollensbe:Would you find something that fills a need or something that that group is particularly interested in?
Heath Hollensbe:Do you delegate out to other leaders?
Heath Hollensbe:Is it, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Heath Hollensbe:There's a lot of questions, but how, how would you say, okay, I'm feeling comfort, this, how do this, this?
Heath Hollensbe:I wanna invite others, maybe my mc into this
Caesar Kalinowski:next steps.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:So first off.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, small is big, right?
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, slow is fast.
Caesar Kalinowski:So think about like, go over the list yourself or you as a family.
Caesar Kalinowski:And I think it's always great to do stuff as a family.
Caesar Kalinowski:I just do.
Caesar Kalinowski:Right?
Caesar Kalinowski:I agree.
Caesar Kalinowski:Um, yeah, always bring the kids.
Caesar Kalinowski:If you can go through that list, either the ones we just gave you or go through the 101, we'll give you the link, uh, here coming up.
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Caesar Kalinowski:And, and find something where your heart just leaps a little bit that you're excited about.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's a great place to start.
Caesar Kalinowski:And then I would do it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Just go for it and invite your closest friends, but don't try to make it a group project just yet.
Caesar Kalinowski:I'd say go for it.
Caesar Kalinowski:Find when you're fun and then let, let the fun of that.
Caesar Kalinowski:'cause you're gonna be as blessed as you've blessed anybody else.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:Let the fun of that and the excitement and the blessing that was, let that be contagious and then say, Hey, where'd you get that idea?
Caesar Kalinowski:I got it from this list.
Caesar Kalinowski:There's a ton of stuff.
Caesar Kalinowski:Let's look through this.
Caesar Kalinowski:Any of these sound good to anybody else together?
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Now even with a hundred things, you find like, well, no one could agree on anything.
Caesar Kalinowski:I hear that all the time.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:Well then find something that two or three people agree on and say, well, we're gonna do it.
Caesar Kalinowski:And if anybody wants to join us, you get to, yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Don't worry about trying to get everybody on board for everything and don't worry about picking the biggest possible thing on the list.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Because if some of the things are like a little bit more elaborate, they're all really doable.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:But some of 'em are a little bit more organized.
Caesar Kalinowski:Might, you might have to.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like scrape a couple of bucks together to do it or get the city's permission or whatever others are.
Caesar Kalinowski:You just literally do 'em this weekend, you know?
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:But pick one, get started.
Caesar Kalinowski:Do it your yourself, and then talk about your experience.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's undeniable.
Caesar Kalinowski:Let your, you know, your enthusiasm, win the day and then get whoever will pick the next ones with you and do it.
Caesar Kalinowski:But, but I'd suggest make serving and blessing like this.
Caesar Kalinowski:Make it a rhythm.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like don't make it like we did it once.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's right.
Caesar Kalinowski:Aren't we Missional?
Caesar Kalinowski:But like say, you know, like after you've done one and let people hear about it and then the group picks one.
Caesar Kalinowski:Say, Hey, what if we tried to do, and maybe, and some of them you could do in rhythm.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:You could pick one thing, like a movie night.
Caesar Kalinowski:You could do the movie like, we're gonna do it often.
Caesar Kalinowski:Six, let's do this, let's do it all summer or whatever.
Caesar Kalinowski:Start small.
Caesar Kalinowski:Move.
Caesar Kalinowski:Like let, let enthusiasm get there and don't worry about if everybody doesn't get involved.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:Just let them hear about the good news, you know?
Caesar Kalinowski:Okay.
Heath Hollensbe:It'll be all right.
Heath Hollensbe:Helpful.
Heath Hollensbe:Let's get to the big three for this week.
Heath Hollensbe:Uh, you can get that by going to everyday Disciple dot com slash big three.
Heath Hollensbe:And the big three are just three takeaways.
Heath Hollensbe:We'd love for you to get, if nothing else right away, you can download this.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:Let
Caesar Kalinowski:me summarize this and give you a big three.
Caesar Kalinowski:And by the way, the link to that full 101 ways.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:We'll be a part of the big three download this week, so cool.
Caesar Kalinowski:Here's my big three though.
Caesar Kalinowski:Opportunities to live as a blessing in your city and your neighborhood are endless.
Caesar Kalinowski:And this list reminded me of that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yep.
Caesar Kalinowski:Time is not the issue.
Caesar Kalinowski:Well, I don't know if I have time.
Caesar Kalinowski:For time's not the issue.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's a hard issue.
Caesar Kalinowski:Availability and intention are the key.
Caesar Kalinowski:Hmm.
Caesar Kalinowski:Having the intention to do it, that's the key.
Caesar Kalinowski:Everybody has the time and sometimes the smallest things we do for others can have the biggest impact.
Caesar Kalinowski:That's right.
Caesar Kalinowski:And it can be too easy to see a need or a possible cool opportunity and assume, well, someone else will do something about that.
Caesar Kalinowski:Look in the mirror, pal.
Caesar Kalinowski:It's your turn.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:The advocate is you.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:It really is.
Caesar Kalinowski:We get to, we get to, there's so many opportunities.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:Number two, giving our time and our talents and our resources to improve the lives of others.
Caesar Kalinowski:Really does display the heart of Jesus in our community.
Caesar Kalinowski:Whether, you know, we're setting up fun opportunities for relationship building, think about it.
Caesar Kalinowski:God's all about relationship.
Caesar Kalinowski:Sure.
Caesar Kalinowski:And rest, restore, restoring that or restoring something that's broken in our city or creating new possibilities for people to thrive.
Caesar Kalinowski:There's a ton of those on the list.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yep.
Caesar Kalinowski:The good news of the kingdom of God, in other words, how God wants the world to work is put front and center.
Caesar Kalinowski:Through these things, regardless of which thing you pick.
Caesar Kalinowski:Remember, not every gospel presentation has a little green booklet attached.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, you're absolutely right man.
Caesar Kalinowski:Alright, number three.
Caesar Kalinowski:Number three, pick a simple project that interests you like, oh, I like that.
Caesar Kalinowski:And just get started this weekend.
Caesar Kalinowski:I mean, really like throw caution to the win.
Caesar Kalinowski:Get the list.
Caesar Kalinowski:Pick one.
Caesar Kalinowski:Don't put it off.
Caesar Kalinowski:Don't wait until you can organize the perfect set of people and get the perfect plan.
Caesar Kalinowski:Oh, it might rain, whatever.
Caesar Kalinowski:You know, like a lot of things in life, when we bless others and we give ourselves away, it is often us that receives the biggest blessing.
Caesar Kalinowski:So just get started.
Caesar Kalinowski:Pick one, pick a simple one, get after it.
Caesar Kalinowski:We feel God's love and provision flowing through us to others when we do these kind of things.
Caesar Kalinowski:How cool is that?
Caesar Kalinowski:That's so cool.
Caesar Kalinowski:So just get started.
Heath Hollensbe:And it's, and I love the concept of, of like.
Heath Hollensbe:Bringing kids into this too at the beginning, you know, if you've got some kids, like make this a family thing.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah.
Heath Hollensbe:And you can put up a, a bookshelf in, in the front yard.
Heath Hollensbe:Absolutely.
Heath Hollensbe:Alright.
Heath Hollensbe:You can get those big three by going to everyday Disciple dot com slash big three.
Heath Hollensbe:And again, you'll get the link to the a hundred and plus small ways to improve Your City that's gonna be included.
Heath Hollensbe:Yep.
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Heath Hollensbe:A lot of fun stuff going on there.
Heath Hollensbe:Yeah, absolutely.
Heath Hollensbe:Tell us too, if you surprise giveaways.
Heath Hollensbe:Goodies always good and let us know, like if you decide, hey, we're gonna do number 54.
Heath Hollensbe:Like in your city, tell us how it goes.
Heath Hollensbe:Oh, I love it.
Heath Hollensbe:It'd be encouraging for us, even tell us which
Caesar Kalinowski:one you love the most and why.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah.
Caesar Kalinowski:And then we'll cheer you on.
Caesar Kalinowski:Yeah, absolutely.
Caesar Kalinowski:Or egg you on, I throw eggs at you.
Caesar Kalinowski:No, I, I hope not.
Heath Hollensbe:So, , join us on that Facebook group next week.
Heath Hollensbe:We're gonna talk about something we haven't talked about in the last couple episodes, which is parenting.
Heath Hollensbe:We, we, we love to get into the parenting topic here and there.
Heath Hollensbe:Sometimes there's good news in that too.
Heath Hollensbe:Absolutely.
Heath Hollensbe:So, so we're gonna talk about how to get through some of life's toughest issues as a parent by next week.
Heath Hollensbe:So join us for that.
Heath Hollensbe:Ouch.
Heath Hollensbe:Okay, you ready for that one?
Heath Hollensbe:I'm ready.
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