The Neighboring Toolkit is a four week series for churches and includes worship planning, adult curriculum, and youth curriculum. Buy each item separately or all together for a discount.

This item includes all the materials of the toolkit.

Worship Planning Guide

The worship planning guide includes everything you need to have a great worship series at your church. It was written with pastors in mind and comes prepacked with all of the elements you need for your bulletin and worship team.

Included in the Worship Planning Guide:

Power point templates
Images for bulletins or promotional materials
Visual ideas for worship
Children’s sermon ideas
Spiritual reflection exercises
Prayers and Communion liturgy
Music suggestions
Video illustration ideas

The series covers the Key Ingredients to Neighboring and gives your congregation a taste of what it means to love their actual neighbor.

Week 1: Introduction
Matthew 22:34-40 The Great Commandment

Week 2: Relationship
Matthew 11:25-30 Take My Yoke

Week 3: Abundance
Matthew 14:13-21 Feeding the Five Thousand

Week 4: Joy
Luke 17:11-19 The Grateful Leper

The resource includes many of the lessons and stories gathered by the Neighboring Movement from their years of neighboring and working with churches to connect as neighbor.

Adult Curriculum

The Adult Neighboring Toolkit Curriculum is designed for a Sunday School or small group. It includes material for four one hour sessions. There are participant handouts, a leaders guide, and an audio file for each session. The audio comes from episodes of the Neighboring Movement podcast the Neighbor Next Door.

The series covers the Key Ingredients to Neighboring and gives your small group a taste of what it means to love their actual neighbor.

Youth Curriculum

The Youth Neighboring Toolkit Curriculum is designed for your weekly youth gathering and includes a lesson plan for the youth leader with games and activities to help your youth explore what it means to be good neighbors.

The series covers the Key Ingredients to Neighboring and gives your small group a taste of what it means to love their actual neighbor.

The youth curriculum was written by Joy Lenz. Joy is an educator and youth sponsor at her United Methodist Church. She has been a great advocate for neighboring. You can hear an interview from Joy on our podcast. Click here to hear the episode.