| Hello! Just a brief update as I would love prayer for this upcoming Halloween. Every year we take advantage of the Halloween season to throw a party for the students in our church and to hopefully provide an alternative to the much less safe, much less legal, much less God glorifying tradition of drinking and throwing ragers on Halloween night. Over the years, have noticed that our Halloween parties are mostly just attended by our congregation, which isn’t bad, but we think there is potential to take better advantage of Halloween and somehow get more people who we don’t know to come to our Halloween event. This year, we are pioneering new idea by trying to throw a Halloween-country themed party on campus (rather than in one of our houses). By moving the location onto campus and even working with the university on this one, we are hoping that this party would be advertised and seen by many more people. If we can get the people in the door, our church knows what to do. At that point we meet them, learn about their lives, have fun with them, and hopefully share the gospel with them (or at the very least open the door to future gospel related conversations). You can be praying that all the details fall into place and that we see 100 or more new students attend this event. Already God has been providing big time; He has ordained that the University give us $500 to support this event which was much more than we had ever hoped for! Pray that our church takes advantage of this Halloween party and meets new people to invite into gospel centered community. Pray for me and Dakota and our fellow staff member Addie that we don’t lose our minds planning this thing. Anyway that’s all, I’ll write back with an update after Halloween!!  P.S. Dakota, Kasey, and I got to go home this weekend to celebrate with our mom for her 50th birthday! That was a lot of fun. Always so enjoyable to see my mom. Love you Mom! |
Praying for this outreach and glad you could get together with your Mom.
Sending prayers that your party is a great success. If the kids would just realize it is so much better for them and their families. Good luck, it sounds like it should be fun.
I’ll CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR ALL 3 OF YOU. YOU ARE A BLESSING TO ME. Keep your eyes on JESUS!