If you want to love your city well you, must learn your city!
Here are steps you can take to learning and loving your city.

1. Know the history of your city. History is crucial to understanding our city - learn as much as you can from the time Native American's lived on the land to the "founding" of the city. It is so important to learn from history and the stories of those before us.
2. Listen and Learn. How we see the world around us is filtered through a variety of things including life experience, ethnicity, socio-econcomic status, gender, etc. It is important to listen and learn from someone with a different life experience.
3. Every city has its challenges. Instead of avoiding, lean in and seek to understand before being critical.
4. Contemplate why you live where you live. We all live where we live for a reason. Some of the primary reasons people live where they live are affordability, safety, schooling options. If we look at our cities at a macro level, they look incredibly diverse. Although, when we zoom in at a micro level, we are deeply segregated along race and class lines. Give some time to contemplate honestly, be authentic if race, socio-economic class and comfort have something to do with where you chose to live.
5. Pray for the restoration of individuals and the larger community.
6. Prayerful consider how you can use your resources to commit to supporting God's vision of the wholistic restoration of people and communities.