Ice Cream Chat
Horizon Community Church of Downer’s Grove knows the importance of listening to their community and what better way to do that than over ice cream? Inspired by Asset Based Community Development Horizon CC is actively seeking out opportunities for listening conversations with their Prentiss Creek neighbors, the 700 unit apartment complex that border’s the church. Horizon co-hosted with the manager of Prentiss Creek an ice cream social where neighbors were encouraged to talk with each other concerning current issues going on in the neighborhood.
Through this ice cream social neighbors were able to connect, many for the first time. Horizon was not sure how many to expect for this event but numbers did not turn out to be an issues as Megan Johnson, the AmeriCorps member of Horizon, said “we left both doors open and people just kept coming!” Everyone who came was excited to talk about the numerous possibilities for Prentiss Creek and how they might be involved.