Feb 21st Outreach Update

Can you find Pastor Bruce and Nate in this picture? : )


Leah passing out tracts !


Grace and Sarah in action !

This Sat, Feb 21st, about 16 people from our church went to a local flea market to share the gospel and hand out tracts. This was a great turnout of people and several were doing it for the first time.

Before we started, I went over a few rules that I made up. They included:
1. If a shop owner asks us to move away from their booth, smile and move immediately without debate.
2. If a security guard asks us not to do this in their facility, again - stop immediately and do not argue.
3. Others...

About a 1/2 hour into the outreach event, I received a call from one of the church members, located at the opposite end of the facility. He said that a worker indicated that we are not allowed to hand out literature here. We hadn't known about this rule and it wasn't posted anywhere, but we stopped and got the entire group together to pass along the news.

We acknowledged that even in this situation, God is in control, and therefore, it was not His will for us this day to pass out tracts.

A couple things came to mind afterward. (1) we can't be so dependent on the use of tracts, many places are no longer allowing people to hand out literature, and (2) we need to be sharing the gospel "as we go", not just during events.

I thank God for the time we had to hand out tracts to apx. 200 people and had conversations with 4 people. I thank God for His ultimate will that is better then our own agendas. And finally I thank God for the encouragement of such a strong church turnout.

Ken