Reaching your neighbours - the Mezei's front window!

It feels like yesterday we were doing Christmas in our house. Last year we so enjoyed getting ready for it, celebrating Advent, probably the proper way for the first time. Lockdown has its uses J!

As Lent came round we asked ourselves why we give more importance to Advent and not to Lent. Surely both are as important! Both are amazing news for humanity. So we decided to do Advent the ‘right’ way this year. Of course, with a one and four year old, it might look a lot different to how others celebrate it, but we found ways to involve everyone in our family and to make it meaningful.

In December, like others in the church, we made use of our front window to make a giant nativity scene. Let’s just say that if anyone had any doubts we were Christians, they now knew better! The kids so enjoyed making it and adding to it as Advent progressed (although Clara was not too sure she liked her baby doll in the window!). But most of all we loved seeing people stop to look at the scene and read what we wrote on the window. Children would stop their parents in their tracks to have a good look.

So we decided to turn the window decorating into a family tradition, not just in preparation for Christmas, but also for Easter. It took a bit of thinking as to what would draw people’s attention, and with good old internet at our fingertips, this is what resulted: 

We are planning to change the verse every week, so that the regular walkers along our road can get more Bible intake. And the countdown keeps us motivated, but I am sure some passer-bys do check it as well J. It is heart breaking to see how the world just skims over Easter, some throwing in some chocolate, others just enjoying the day as a bank holiday, not even knowing how God changed everything for them 2000 years ago. Using our windows is the least we can do to shout it out, and it is effortless in proclaiming the good news.  We pray now that good conversations with the neighbours will come out of it.