Join the movement! Vote to Love your Neighbor products are here!
Vote to Love your Neighbor is a project started by Ridgeway ahead of the 2024 US presidential election and continues into the present.
What does it mean to love your neighbor? As followers of Jesus, we seek to follow his teachings and his example, and he placed a high priority on love, particularly love for others. In the parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10, Jesus teaches us that we should consider everyone our neighbor, even people who look, think, act, believe, and yes, even vote differently than we do. “Voting,” while overtly political, can also be interpreted in many ways: working for equality and justice, practicing environmental stewardship, and demonstrating Christ-like hospitality are all ways of voting to love your neighbor. It is not just one day a year or every four years, but everyday, we can vote to love our neighbor. Ultimately, the goal of the project is to encourage everyone to make a deliberate decision to love your neighbor and to develop a lifestyle, in big and small ways, of embracing compassion, respect, kindness, dignity, and care for all.
Our project was featured in Anabaptist World (you can read it here)!
If you resonate with this message and want to share it in your
community, you can find Vote to Love your Neighbor products here.
Listen to Dorothy Shank share about the inspiration behind this project:
We are grateful to Muddy Feet Graphics in Harrisonburg for hosting our online store and printing our products. If you have further questions, please contact Erin Conway (erin@ridgewaymennonite.org).