saturday we served our generation by washing cars for FREE in the community where we gather to worship.
we washed over fifty cars for FREE and handed out bottles of water to show God's love in a practical way - it's FREE too, just a reminder. =)
dan did a fantastic job at keeping us all on spot - from people working the crowd telling them what we were doing, to window washers for those who did not have time for a full car wash, to the laborers and those that marketed our really cool product.
this event was held at an advance auto - they gave us three parking spaces where we could wash cars as the customers shopped. they also supplied us with liquid and a few bundles of paper towels.
one family came to our church on sunday afternoon, then to our annual church picnic that evening. it's really cool how "being the church" makes a positive impact on others, not to mention the impact it has on the ones serving to meet a need.
we collected several email addresses - the next time we have a free car wash, people of the community, who have no relation to our church want to help! how cool is that?!
1 comments:
I think that is were it is at! Reaching out to the community and not by trying to fundraise all the time. People are easier to reach when you are helping them with no thought about what they have to do for you. I wish more churches would try things like that. Ideas: set up a puppet show on a playground, get a group to sit and sing under a tree, nothing formal just "getting together" to have fun and drawing people to you.
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