Make the Most of It!

I wanted to give an update to a previous post on our efforts in the community last weekend. Saturday was a day of great opportunity. We went a little crazy preparing "Beat the Winter Blahs" packets (complete with ClearView info., some hot chocolate and fire balls) this weekend. Thursday evening, two of our teammates helped us prepare about 350 packets and then Trish went crazy on Friday preparing almost 500 hundred on her own. We ended up with about 1,050 by Friday evening (picture left is all the packets lined up in our room).

We faced a bit of a set back when the turn out from our youth group friends was not what we thought it might be. However, we forged ahead, confident that God had something planned for the day. All in all, the youth group and our family had wonderful interaction in the community. Even though we didn't make as many contacts as we hoped to, the exciting part was that many people were home and we even had conversations with numerous people who said they were looking for a church or would check the website. Most important of all, we put smiles on a lot of people's faces in Jesus' name. I'm so thankful for the vision of this youth pastor, his perseverance, and his desire to help us move forward in ministry. Thanks, Mark!

Now...the challenge is that we've still got almost 900 packets to get out before warm weather hits... and we need to make those 900 contacts for the progress of our ministry. Want to help? :)