Day Two

We began today by heading out as a team and going door to door with fliers inviting people to come to the park on Saturday for the event we will be putting on. We were able to cover a lot of ground in a very short amount of time by dividing up, and we probably distributed around 700 fliers this morning! Even in the morning hours, the temps were very warm by our standards, and it didn't take long to work up a sweat.



After lunch, we spent the next part of our day working at Quentin Elementary School. This is the school that Coldwater Church meets in every Sunday, so we truly hope that our work there this week helps the church maintain a great relationship with the school. We had a very productive shift today...several of the girls re-did 10 of their large hallway bulletin boards and the rest of the group worked on compiling the student handbooks for the next school year. What began as many huge piles of paper was transformed into thousands of handbooks, printed both in English and Spanish for the many students who attend school here.

(this was the end result...lots and lots of handbooks. there are 25 in each stack)

After a short break for dinner, we all donned our team t-shirts and headed out to a local shopping center to hand out bottles of water with the church name and info printed on the labels. It's quite an experience to try and give someone something that is truly a free gift. People are so skeptical of "free" that it is very hard to convince them that there really are no strings attached to this gift...it's just simply cold water on a hot Arizona day. I love Pastor Chris' heart in this, which is simply to be a blessing to people and become known as a church that gives and contributes to their community. We had some great conversations with people, and we're hopeful that some of them will choose to come to church on Sunday. We also had our share of people getting upset at us, getting asked to leave by store employees, etc. One gentleman even felt it necessary to classify our efforts as a "pestilence". (what a nice old testament word!) Not sure why or how free water can generate so many emotions in people, but we had a great time passing it out tonight!




To wrap it all up, we had a nice debrief/hangout time at Sonic tonight. A great way to end a great first day! We will follow a similar schedule tomorrow, and we will continue to invite people to come and hang out with us on Saturday in the park. You can join us in praying for...

- Favor with people in our invitations, interactions and attempts to show the love of Christ
- Continued focus and energy for our team

I'm excited for tomorrow!