Vision:
•Create and maintain a safe and welcoming community space for all neighbors: individuals, families, and groups.
•Organize minimal, flexible programming to build community among neighbors (e.g. gardening, worship, arts, lending library, café).
•Host non-profit community groups aligning with our mission (e.g. language classes, worship groups, arts and crafts groups, alcoholics anonymous,
and more).
•Participate in the spiritual, intellectual and social formation of settlers and other volunteers as they experience the joys and challenges of daily life in a diverse neighborhood.
•Honor the traditional settlement idea by partnering with Waco’s churches, college and university groups, businesses, and others in support of our mission.
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--- Good Neighbor Leadership ---
Barbara Bridgewater, Social & Programmatic Cluster Coordinator
Barbara and her husband Phillip moved to Waco 17 years ago with the intention of staying just a few years. They bought an older house in the neighborhood of our church in North Waco, and they home schooled 2 girls here, one who is now in college and the other just starting high school. Good Neighbor is part of their neighborhood vision of living together and forming community where they live. Phillip works with Habitat for Humanity and Barbara teach English classes to adults and work with homeless families with Compassion Ministries.
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Laine Scales, Settler Cluster Coordinator
Laine Scales moved to Waco in 1999 to assume work at Baylor University as a social work and higher education professor. Laine publishes books and articles on the history of women in higher education and social work, including women involved in settlement houses in the early 20th century. She moved to the Sanger Heights neighborhood in 2003, renovating her home on Colcord, near the Good Neighbor house. She has been involved in community work around Waco through such organizations as Hope Fellowship, Community Race Relations Coalition, and the Prosper Waco Education Steering Committee. Laine co-founded Good Neighbor in 2012 with Morgan Caruthers.
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Rick Lhotan, Building & Management Co- Coordinator
Rick moved to Waco in the fall of 2011 in order to start his education in History at Baylor University. He originally got involved with Good Neighbor, because Good Neighbor’s President, BJ Parker, and Rick discussed what Good Neighbor was all about, what it hoped to accomplish, and Rick then decided that he’d love to help and make a change in the community of Sanger Heights. He has been heavily involved in University Baptist Church for a number of years, first serving as a volunteer, and then an intern. Truett Theological Seminary in the pursuit of a Masters of Divinity with a concentration in Christian Leadership.
