Church helps residents in east Enid

ENID, Okla. There was no music, no sermon and no one at Enid First Church of the Nazarene on Sunday morning.

We didnt go to church this morning, Pastor Bruce Johnson said. Ive been preaching to my people about being the church and loving on people, doing acts of kindness. So thats what we did today, instead of going to church and sitting in a building.

The whole emphasis was dont go to church, go put your faith into action.

Approximately 130 church attendees headed to a neighborhood in east Enid to clean up debris from yards, mow eight lawns, clean out a window air conditioning unit and scrape, prime and paint a house.

Johnson said the church also served a free lunch and held a church service for the community at Garfield Elementary School.

Some church members went to a local nursing home, where they held a church service and served communion.

The church started the Garfield Neighborhood Initiative almost four years ago, after the construction of Garfield Elementary School was announced, Johnson said.

We went into the neighborhood and helped them start to clean up their neighborhood and prepare for that new school, he said.

While the church had been working in the neighborhood for nearly four years, the initiative had kind of died down in the past year, Johnson said.

Sunday was a kick-off day to get the initiative going again, he said.

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Church helps residents in east Enid