Are your old fundy friends still your friends?

[elfdream]

I found new friends by going out into the community. My husband works for the Boy Scouts and I am a volunteer with them. That is a large and friendly network with many fellow Christians. Start a Cub Scout in your church and you will discover that! I also belong to the locale Kiwanis club and joined several support groups for the various ailments that I suffer from (cancer survivors support/fibromyalgia).

Perhaps you could start some kind of outreach ministry working with other churches. A Thrift store, a soup kitchen...a food pantry perhaps. Here some of the larger churches take turns giving the homeless a place to sleep at night. Some other churches also take turns hosting a community dinner where all are welcome and donations are appreciated. If those events are already in place ask if you can help out.

I know that most of us were brought up in churches that didn't have much to do with groups who were not part of our little world but after I broke free of that and went 'out there' I found a whole new world full of good people. Its hard at first...many times I went and sat in the back and just listened and it took me a awhile to volunteer to help with projects but eventually I did and am glad I did.

That's how I moved on and how I made new friends.