We Show Up for Fairfield

The Vine has adopted West Texas Street through the City of Fairfield's Adopt-A-Street program. Our volunteers walk the stretch clearing litter and debris, and report back to the city on the condition of signs and fencing.

The city supplies grabbers, bags, gloves, and vests, provides the initial training, and hauls away what we collect. Adopting groups commit to at least six cleanups a year, and the city marks each adopted stretch with a sign naming the group that looks after it.

It is a small, unglamorous, recurring thing — which is exactly the point. The street our neighbors drive every day is cleaner because a group of people showed up again.

Each August the City of Fairfield fills downtown for the Tomato & Vine Festival, and we set up among the booths with a free photo booth and an open invitation to pray.

Nobody pays for a photo and nobody has to be prayed for to get one. Families walk away with a picture from their day downtown, and anyone who wants someone to pray with them has somewhere to go.