Sherri Kadlec won't be attending Hillside Church of Bloomington on
Sunday, but she'll still be at church. She'll just be picking up litter
strewn around school yards and parks as a form of service.
Kadlec's church and four other congregations in
Bloomington are canceling regular worship services to do charitable
works in an effort to show they're living out the do-good messages they
preach.
Nearly 1,000 people from Bethany, Emmaus, Evergreen,
Garden Community and Hillside evangelical churches plan to help their
neighbors by painting houses, picking up trash, cleaning school
playgrounds and public parks, offering free vehicle oil changes to
single parents and hosting a basketball clinic.
"It's kind of breaking the mold, getting outside of the
church and connecting with people," said Carl Nelson, president of
Transform Minnesota, a network of nearly 160 evangelical churches
helping to organize the event. "We're really serious about our faith and
willing to step out and just simply serve people, no strings attached."
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