FINDLAY, Ohio — It's the golden rule: treat others as you would want to be treated.
For a group of churches in Findlay, they feel it's a message everyone needs.
"We could be a voice for kindness, for humility and compassion. Voices that the church can always offer the world," Jessica Commeret, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Findlay said. "So we all decided together to do it."
Four Findlay churches have come together to promote a campaign for kindness. "Do Unto Others" is a grassroots movement which was started by a United Methodist Church in Kansas City.
According to the campaign's website, it's meant to encourage people to be intentional about treating one another with kindness, even those with whom we disagree.
"Whether you are a person of faith or not, the idea of doing to others as you would have them do unto you, I think fits really well with just how we want to be treated," Dan Metzger. senior pastor of St. Marks United Methodist in Findlay said. "We all want to be treated with kindness, with compassion, with respect and ultimately with love."
Churches like the First Presbyterian and St. Marks in Findlay have teamed up to help spread that message, using social media and yard signs to get people's attention.
"Even the ways in which religion in the past few years have gotten involved and divisive," Commeret said. "We believe that the voice of Christ, that the voice of Jesus is one that has called us to do unto others as we would have them do unto us."
Metzger said it shouldn't matter what party you vote for or whose campaign signs you have in your yard. We are all each other's neighbors.
"At the end of the day, we're all humans. We're all Children of God and we all deserve to be treated with kindness and with respect and dignity," Metzger said. "No matter who you're voting for on the right or on the left, you're a child of God."
"Do Unto Others" is a message being spread through hundreds of churches nationwide, and those in Findlay hope the message reaches as many people as possible.