Hello friends! Thank you for joining us on the front porch for Part 2 of our 8 Front Door Initiative series! In this second episode, we hear more from the team about their initial door-knocking experiences, examine an event the team organized with the neighbors they were meeting, and start to feel some of the resistance the team experienced throughout the summer. Enjoy!

Again, as this is the second episode of this particular series, if you have not already, now is the time to tune into Part 1! The first episode of the series was released last Tuesday and is titled "The 8 Front Door Initiative (Part 1): Meet The Team". In that episode, you get to hear more about the initiative itself and meet the team that made it happen!

In short, in the midst of the 8 Front Door Initiative, we encouraged every household within the northern-most portion of our neighborhood (about 400 homes) to get to know the neighbors behind the 8 front doors closest to their own. This was accomplished through the work of an awesome team made up of both staff members and high school students who live in our neighborhood and/or attend our neighborhood high school. These high school students paired up with staff members to form listening teams, and these listening teams checked in with each of the 400 households weekly! The students were such incredible listeners and so beyond fun to work with. You’ll get to know them, and hopefully get such a fantastic taste of the summer, through this series!

We’re excited; this series is a bit different than anything we’ve ever released! Throughout the summer, our host Matt was very intentional about sitting down with the listening teams that went out and interviewing them about their experiences. This series is a compilation of those many recordings and an attempt at telling the story of this transformative initiative. We hope you enjoy and stay tuned as we continue to release the rest of the series!