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\u201cWe want to be able to teach them how to have good character and how to be kind and loving to other people,\u201d Jodi said. \u201cI want to be the one who guides them as they go along and they learn how to live in the real world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Billy\u2019s church, Encounter Life Church, operates on a similar principle: doing life out in the community. The Leven- goods wanted to go and build relationships with people who weren\u2019t going to church, and to help people honor God and care for their neighbor where they lived, worked, and played.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe wanted to be a part of a church and help start a church that would engage in the community, would try to serve, would not view Sunday as the pinnacle of ministry,\u201d Billy said. \u201cIt\u2019s more about how those people who come on Sunday go about engaging in ministry and life through the week.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Relational networking is the most valuable thing Billy has found through the chamber of commerce, and his website and branding small business follow the same principles \u2014 focusing on the people they serve. The chamber has a great team, Billy said, and so many of its members have been influential to him in becoming better. Now he tries to do the same for others, and gather others to continue that work \u2014 in the chamber, in church, in work, and out in the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe want to give ourselves to continuing to serve people well, to care well for our community, to lead our church to do that, to use our business for that,\u201d Billy said. \u201cHopefully, we influence our children to do the same thing.\u201d GN<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE LEVENGOOD dinner table is a lively place, with two parents, six kids, and \u2014 frequently \u2014 guests. They have an open table, Billy Levengood said, and they almost always have food to share. The Levengood family is just as lively and just as generous in their everyday lives as they are at dinner, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":23776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover"],"yoast_head":"\n