August 12, 2007
We Turned Vision into Action
By Joyce Long This story began in San Diego, November 2006, when Mount Pleasant Christian Church”s (Greenwood, Indiana) staff leaders attended a national outreach conference. There they realized our congregation needed to begin reaching out to AIDS patients. The idea incubated until February when planning began for a post-Easter sermon series. Then the pastors and directors borrowed the interactive Imagine concept from Eastview Christian Church, Normal, Illinois, which had used this same theme during Christmas. Mount Pleasant adapted it to Matthew 25:34-45, focusing each week”s message on six parts: Imagine a world where no one is . . . hungry,
