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HONORING SENIORS
Good
Neighbors
Gary & Gayla Campbell
by Jane Bromley
e moved to the country I did a little baking, purchased whom I had previously only heard
in 1989 to raise our flowers, assembled candy bags, and mention. The house on the corner
Wchildren and watched knocked on a few doors. I didn’t had been for sale a long time, so I
the neighborhood of Indiana South see much of a change until I started just asked God to help it sell.
grow up around us. Over 25 years,
we were able to cultivate wonderful A few days ago, an
lifelong friendships with many of unfamiliar face showed up
our neighbors. Three years ago, the at our door. He introduced
reality of an empty nest, coupled himself, said they’d found
with the maintenance of a big house a dog and wanted to know
on an acre of property motivated if it was ours. When I
us to downsize. We found a lovely realized it was the man
home in a shady neighborhood that who lived in the corner
was just the right size. However, house, I told him I had just
after a couple of years, we only started praying for their
knew the neighbors whose rear- house to sell. That led to
entry garages were adjacent to ours. a conversation about their
I never even saw the faces of anyone praying for each family regularly. story. It wasn’t long before
else on our street. I wondered who I was able to make a new friend in I realized that God had orchestrated
lived behind the doors of all the the young mother whose family the opportunity for us to connect
other homes I passed daily. I wanted had just moved in. I connected with face-to-face, neighbor to neighbor.
to know them like I knew my the young couple across the street Gary Campbell went home and
country neighbors. who had a new baby. I finally met retrieved a program for an event he
the single lady two doors down, of
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