"And they had everything in common..."

I’m a lucky guy.

I married a girl who has vision for miles on days where I can’t see more than a few feet in front of me.

My wife decided to start reading the previously mentioned “Abide” study before I had the chance to get around to it.

The day before she had a conversation with our pastor about different projects aimed at providing clean water to poor civilizations and creating sustainable ways to provide food to feed the starving across the globe.

And then she came to me with a brilliant idea.

We had been discussing the roles of small community groups in the development of collegians. I’d like to create groups that mirror the early church described in Acts 2, because I think that model provides several key components of what community should look like.

Her idea was this: There are people in this community that go hungry. While it might be difficult to come up with solutions for global hunger, hunger on a small scale could be tackled by community groups. Our church is branched out into at least 10 to 12 small groups that get together and discuss that week’s sermon or a bible study. What if each individual in those communities started planting a garden. There would be 7-8 mini-gardens per small group that would comprise one pretty substantial garden. And there would be 10-12 larger gardens if they were replicated by each of the small groups.

Besides being an excellent exercise in the idea of abiding and planting roots, it could potentially turn into a major ministry opportunity. These crops could be used to feed all of the members of the community group, or sold to provide money that could be used to meet the needs of an individual in that small group, or even given away to those in need of food. This could put a huge dent in the hunger problem in this community.

This was big.

And I think that community groups have the opportunity to do big things. Small groups don’t have to just be Bible studies. They can be communities that enact change in the larger community.

And it starts with big ideas like that.