As we anticipate the arrival of the CAFO2025 Summit in Houston, Texas, we’d like to invite the community to join us in a storytelling campaign to bring DISTINCT stories to life as we consider what it means to live “different from the world, for the world.”
In CAFO President Jedd Medefind’s article about the CAFO2025 theme, he said:
“Christian distinctiveness is most visible not in sweeping actions or public displays, but in countless small choices of daily life. Choices to find life by losing it, to gain wealth by giving it, to discover oneself by forgetting oneself.
- It’s a very different approach to our time, often doing fewer things, not more.
- It’s a very different approach to money, aiming to maximize not security or pleasure but joyful generosity.
- It’s a very different approach to home, not as a waystation for life-out-there, but as a hub of family life and refuge of hospitality for the hurting.
- It’s a very different approach to technology, not as a constant companion but as a tool that must be decisively kept in its place.
- It’s a very different approach to opponents, not as enemies to be thwarted, but wounded souls to be loved and won into friendship.”
As Christ-followers caring for vulnerable children and families in our homes and communities all across the globe, we want to honor your stories and elevate that which is truly ‘distinct’ from the world around us.
The Prompt
We’d like to invite you to post a 30-45 second video on your personal social media platforms about the most ‘distinctively different’ follower of Christ you’ve known.
This story should represent someone who is remarkably unique in their attentiveness, generosity, selflessness, and/or other traits — qualities the world so often ignores but so desperately needs.
We encourage you to include at least one specific story or example of how this person has embodied ‘differentness’ in their life and what it meant to you.
Please tag @cafoalliance so we can repost your video to our stories. We’d love to encourage you to tag the person you share about, too, and invite them to do the same!
Questions? Reach out to us at info@cafo.org or send us a DM on our social accounts @cafoalliance.
