ĭennis: I’m just wondering what a “holy dog” looks like?Īmy: The dog is a golden retriever. I have to ask you about this-you say you have one “holy dog” and one “unsaintly cat”?Īmy: Well, if anybody has a dog-and-a-cat family, that’s how it usually goes. They live in Lancaster, Ohio, along with their daughter Emma. She and her husband David have been married for 23 years. She is the creator of The Neighborhood Café. She’s dealing with a zero and with somebody on the south side of five-Īmy: I was a negative two-so we’re in good company here!ĭennis: Okay good. This is a woman who has a passion for helping people be more hospitable. Frankly, almost a third of us say, “We’d like to get to know our neighbors better.” Well, we’ve got a resource for you today-a personal resource. About a third of us don’t know anything about our neighbors.ĭennis: We don’t know them personally. I don’t know that they had anything in common other than property lines that were right next to one another.ĭennis: Yes. In our neighborhood, the Levotneys, and the Larsons, and the Crosbys, and the Lepines used to get together-probably once a month, for bridge club-I think. Something would happen-like I would be climbing one of their trees and break a limb or something-that wouldn’t go down really well.ĭennis: But she would go borrow butter, sugar-ĭennis: -flour, bread, eggs and vice versa.īob: Yes. I mean, there were the usual skirmishes between neighbors that you would have, you know. My mom and our neighbors were very good friends. In case they’re listening to this broadcast! ĭennis: Here’s what I remember from growing up. So, we don’t quite have the same kind of neighbors that you’d have in a “neighborhood”.īob: You’re not talking about the quality of the people? You’re talking about the distance between houses?ĭennis: That’s what I would be talking about. Now, some of it has to do with where we live. I mean, this has been an area-ĭennis: We’ve done some things okay? But this is not a strength. This is not a strength.īob: We’re a zero! This has been-not a strength. Where would you be?ĭennis: That’s a good question. One means nobody should follow your example. I have a particular subject I’m going to ask you about.ĭennis: How would you rate yours, Bob?! īob: Mine depends on which day you’re asking but what I’m asking about, in particular, today is the whole issue of hospitality-getting to know your neighbors and evangelism in the neighborhood.ĭennis: Did you get a call from one of our neighbors? ĭennis: Are you going to humiliate me again, here on FamilyLife Today?īob: -ten means you feel like you’ve done an exemplary job in that area. As you look back on your marriage-I’m going to ask you to give a score here alright? On a scale of one to ten-īob: I’m not asking about your marriage. Stay tuned.Īnd welcome to FamilyLife Today. Amy Lively joins us today to explain how her house became the neighborhood café and how God has used that in the lives of many of her neighbors. Our host is the President of FamilyLife ®, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. The point is to enjoy the people that you’re with.īob: This is FamilyLife Today for Thursday, October 31 st. The point is not entertaining and being extravagant. The point is not about having the perfect house. There are so many things out there to make this easy. I use paper plates and store-bought food to keep it simple. The dolls are reunited in this place of honor-where they belong, together of course, for always.Bob: When Amy Lively decided to invite women in the neighborhood over to her house for an open house, she realized she was going to need to employ the “KISS” principle: Keep It Stupendously Simple.Īmy: If it’s not easy for me, it’s not going to be fun for my guests. Her brother Raggedy Andy joined her in 2007. Raggedy Ann entered the National Toy Hall of Fame in 2002. The books and dolls have remained popular for the past century. Gruelle averaged one new book each year for twenty years. In them, when humans weren’t looking, Raggedy Ann and Andy came to life and embarked on many adventures. In 1920, Gruelle introduced the Raggedy Andy Stories. Volland arranged to sell Raggedy Ann dolls along with the books, and the tie-in between Gruelle’s Raggedy Ann Stories and the dolls proved a marketing hit. Gruelle, a cartoonist and illustrator, wrote a children’s book about Raggedy Ann in 1918. He drew a face on the worn fabric and called the doll Raggedy Ann. One day in 1915, as the story goes, Johnny Gruelle’s daughter Marcella brought him an old rag doll.
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