The Neighborhood Cafe makes it easy to love your neighbor this Christmas!
We’re offering free gifts that will open doors in your neighborhood, create opportunities to make new friends, and bless your neighbors with a meaningful gift.
All you have to do is set aside the time you’d spend watching one Christmas movie or making one trip to the mall, and use that time to do something special with your neighbors.
Let me show you how!
The first part of our gift to you is an invitation to a Christmas Open House. Print as many copies of this pretty invitation as you need, and invite your neighbors to your home. Your Christmas Open House can be as simple or as elegant as you’d like – I’m inviting my neighbors over for store bought cookies on paper plates! There’s no agenda other than offering extravagant hospitality (not extreme entertaining!) to your neighbors.
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Tips for planning your Christmas Open House
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Printable Open House invitation
There are two versions of the invitation: One of them includes this offer to your neighbors – “Bring an old 4×6 photo frame to create a Christmas countdown.”
The second part of our free gift to you is an adorable Christmas craft you can make together with your neighbors. It’s made by removing the glass from an old photo frame, inserting Christmas paper, and gluing on a little clothespin. Download, print and trim our Christmas Countdown Cards, and you’ve got an adorable keepsake to joyfully count down each day until Christmas.
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Step-by-step instructions for the Christmas Countdown Craft with photos
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Printable Christmas Countdown Craft
Each card has a number on one side and a number and Scripture verse on the other. Your neighbors will leave your home with a memory, a new friendship and 25 messages about the real meaning of Christmas.
Doing this simple craft is an instant icebreaker that gives you something to talk about and an activity to share as you get to know one another. Make a Christmas Countdown with your neighbors, children, family, coworkers and friends from church!
Can you imagine what 2015 will be like in our neighborhoods, if we close 2014 by getting to know our neighbors? Homes can be transformed, our streets will become sanctuaries, and neighborhoods are knit together during this celebration of Christ’s birth.
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