What is Love Lookout?
Love Lookout is a committee of men and women, all of whom live on Lookout Mountain, who are focused on loving and supporting our community. The primary goal of Love Lookout is to look for ways to bring the community of Lookout Mountain together and to promote its overall well-being. Love Lookout was started in 2015.
What DOES Love Lookout do?
Love Lookout sponsors numerous community activities each year, including Community Movie Nights, the Christmas Tree Lighting at the Commons, a cookout at Thrive (the mountain’s senior living facility), lunches for teachers at the two elementary schools on the mountain as well as a lunch for town workers and first responders. Love Lookout has helped support the Fairyland School lunch program, which provides lunches for children during school holidays and in the summer, trash pick-up days on the mountain, and various children’s sports programs. Love Lookout also looks for ways to care for—and show good will to—individuals and families as needed.
Why Love Lookout?
Christians are to love their neighbors. This is the second greatest commandment. While this command has many implications, certainly every church should be committed to advancing the common good of its surrounding community. As Tim Keller notes, “In Jeremiah 29:7, God calls the Jews not just to live in the city but to love it and work for its peace – its economic, social, and spiritual flourishing. Christians are indeed citizens of God’s heavenly city, but these citizens are always the best possible citizens of their earthly city. Christians should seek to live in the community, not to use the community to build great churches, but to use the resources of the church to seek a great, flourishing community.” The truth of this statement does not apply only to Christians as individuals. It also applies to the church as a whole. Many of LMPC’s members seek to serve the common good on an individual basis. Love Lookout is one way for our church as an entire body to embrace and live out the commandment to love our neighbors.
Who is on the Love Lookout team?
Lookout Mountain residents from both the Georgia and Tennessee sides who love Lookout, have a good sense of the needs in our community, and are willing to discover ways we can simply serve and support our community. Various churches on the mountain are represented on the committee.
Pastor Wil Nettleton
Carter Breazeale and Trey Carr, co-chairs
David Bennett
Jay Brooks
Kathleen Driscoll
Sarah Hurt
Catherine Leckenby
Sarah Lehn
Grayson Lowery
Ann Henley Perry
Pam Salter