Why Community Matters

Amy Boyle
Thu, 13 Feb 2014 19:10:14 -0800

A little while ago, Sunday Assembly got mail from an assembler that reminded us once again why we're lucky to be a part of this community with you. When we asked her if we could share it, she responded that she very much hopes that it might reach the family who reached out to her to help.

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I want to tell you what Sunday Assembly has done for me. In 2013 I was jobless and homeless for a little over 6 months. It isn’t that I didn’t have money for rent, it’s that I had a dog and the places I could afford wouldn’t allow me to keep her and the places that did allow a dog were way out of my price range. Was I destined to lose my best friend in order to have a roof over my head? I rued not being a member of a church. There I would have had the ear of the pastor and the help and compassion of the entire congregation. My plight would have been listed in the church flyer and read by hundreds. But I am an atheist. I had no place to advertise and no church to help. I had no one’s ear. And I couldn’t--wouldn’t--give up my dog.