On Wednesday night our Missional Church team met to talk about our plans for the fourth of July. Every year we have dozens of people who end up watching the fireworks from our front lawn. We have a great location and it allows folks to avoid some of the real congestion downtown.
This year we want to be proactive and step out to acts as hosts and hostesses for those who gather on our doorstep. We are going to greet them with free popcorn, lemonade and ice tea. It will be like a block party with us serving as hosts.
The idea behind the missional church concept is that instead of waiting for people to come to us, we take the initiative and go out into the neighborhood and greet people where they are. We let them get to know us. We reach out to meet needs and to minister to whoever we meet along the way. We go without the expectation that they are going to join our church, but with the hope that we reflect God's love and that it might speak to their spirit in someway so that a conversation with God may begin within them.
So if you are free on Saturday, July 4th, meet us at church anytime after 7:00 p.m. and plan to watch the fireworks with us.
Cal
PS. We are looking for lemonade and ice tea mix, bags of ice, brown paper lunch bags, paper towels, toilet tissue, vegetable oil and smiles.
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