SO WHAT IS LOVE GRANBURY? It's really simple. Love Granbury is all about taking the love of Christ to our community through humble acts of community service. These community service projects can be in the form of free car washes, mowing yards, roadside litter pick up, passing out soft drinks and many other types of community service, all free of charge and with no strings attached. In other words, being the Good News…Sharing the Good News!The centerpiece component of the Love Granbury model is an annual event we call "Kindness Explosion". The Kindness Explosion is a two-day event that focuses on what Jesus told us were the two greatest commandments…to love God with all that we are, and to love all others as we love ourselves. During the Kindness Explosion weekend, local churches of varied denominational backgrounds come together to love God through worship, and to love the community I His name through acts of humble community service - all to the glory of God! We believe that there is no greater witness to a lost and hurting world than the church, as one unified Body of Believers, reaching out in genuine love and compassion to the community through humble acts of kindness. We seek to redefine the church in our community by actively planting seeds of God's unconditional love in the hearts of every man, woman and child in this community.
This year's Kindness Explosion event is this next Friday and Saturday, April 17th and 18th. We start off on Friday evening at 7:00pm with an awesome interdenominational worship service, which will be held this year at our host church, Granbury Baptist Church. Worship will be led by the Lincoln Wiseman Band and our special speaker for the event is going to be Rev. Tim Adams from San Antonio, Texas. Tim is the Founder and Director of Corriente Ministries, an urban street ministry in San Antonio.
Then on Saturday morning at 10:00am, the Kindness Explosion kicks into high gear as twenty local congregations go out to blitz the greater Granbury area with God's unconditional love through acts of kindness and service...all done free of charge with no strings attached! Some of our Kindness Projects this year include neighborhood block parties, "really-free" car washes, cook-outs, neighborhood clean-up, turning self service gas stations into full service gas stations, grocery carry out and cart return at local supermarkets, and handing out bottled water/soft drinks at local intersections around town,just to name a few. It's safe to say that if you are out anywhere near the town of Granbury this Saturday between the hours of 10:00am and 2:00pm, you will more than likely see groups of people in the gray "Love Granbury" T-shirts serving the community in some capacity.
After the Kindness Explosion ends at 2:00pm, everyone gathers back at Granbury Baptist for a quick lunch and then we have our Celebration Service starting a 3:00pm. During the Celebration Service, we will hear stories and testimonies from every congregation of how God moved and worked during the various service projects. We will have a little more music from Lincoln Wiseman and then we will wrap everything up.
All in all it's a wonderful weekend and a great opportunity for the local congregations to come together as the Body of Christ to shower the community with God's love and kindness. For more information about Love Granbury and the Kindness Explosion, you can visit www.lovegranbury.org or call Micky at 817-408-5273.
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