So many women made room on their Christmas calendars for their neighbors! They shared their hopes - and, yes, their fears - in our private Facebook group for Neighborhood Cafe Hostesses, where we share encouragement, advice, praises and prayer needs. Here are a few of...

I made a new friend last weekend - Courtney Joseph, author of Women Living Well: Find Your Joy in God, Your Man, Your Kids and Your Home (tuck a copy in a few stockings this Christmas!) and blogger at Women Living Well and Good Morning Girls. Courtney and I were...

This Christmas, give a gift to your entire neighborhood! The Neighborhood Cafe Kit includes everything you need to invite your neighbors to an Open House, then invite them back for Bible study. Order by December 20 for Christmas delivery, and receive a free gift! Free...

Don't worry... you don't have to add a neighborhood Open House to your hectic holiday To Do list! Put a Cafe Kit on your Christmas wish list, then relax. You've got plenty of time to make the perfect start to a brand new year in your neighborhood. Before December 20...

It was encouraging to hear from so many people after the Neighborhood Cafe was featured on FamilyLife Today! I have replied to every email message I received, but I have heard that many people had difficulty sending a reply. If you sent me an email message and did not...

The Neighborhood Cafe Kit is featured in the "Christmas Gift Guide" in Significant Living magazine. The Kit includes everything you need to love your neighbors in a whole new way! Visit www.significantliving.org for gift recommendations for everyone on your Christmas...

Please join me at the Mom Squad Christmas Celebration on December 7 at LaMalfa Conference Center in Mentor, Ohio, sponsored by 95.5 The Fish! "Son of God, love's pure light, radiant beams from they hole face, with the dawn of redeeming grace." That's the final verse...

Christians are weird. We have weird vocabulary ("Hey, wanna come to the wedding supper of the lamb with me? I'm wearing my robe of righteousness!") and weird stories (worldwide flood, bullying giants, belly o' the whale, life after death, etc.). You know what else is...

Every time I invite my neighbors over for coffee, I make a new mistake. Sometimes I wait too long to send the invitation, sometimes I send it too early. I forget to tell them when we're getting together again. I forget my neighbors' names. I don't have enough food, or...