Here in Corvallis, the church has life groups that meet on Wednesday nights during the school season. They take the summer off and then new groups are formed in the fall. This year Jason and I signed up to be part of what is the named "The New Format" Life Group. This new format group meets together in homes to eat dinner and study the Bible together, but it also makes it a point to at least once a month be involved in some kind of service to the community. In other words, it is a group that wants to put into action what we read in the Bible. A couple of weeks ago, several members of our group served meals to the homeless. Yesterday, we met together in the morning and drove up and down streets near the church building finding yards that needed their leaves raked. We would stop, knock on the door and explain to them that we wanted to rake their leaves for no charge. When asked why we were doing it, we answered, "We are from a near by church and we want to serve our neighbors." For those that wanted to know more information, we left a little flyer that had the church information on it. Everyone we asked were shocked and grateful for what we were doing. It was a lot of fun to serve just knowing it was what God wanted us to do. Below are some fun pictures of the event.
group picture 
A picture of the group finishing up one of the yards. If you look closely you can see a little boy in the pile of leaves.
Josiah even helped. He would throw leaves onto the pile.
Josiah picking up leaves while mommy raked.
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