Last night we held our Halloween outreach event called “Trunk or Treat” and it turned out great. We had about 50 vehicles in our far parking lot along with canopy tents behind every car because of the rain, and most of the cars or pickups were decorated and all had a ton of candy. Parents brought their kids down to JBC and they walked down the rows of cars saying “trick or treat,” collecting candy from each “trunk.”We also had free hot dogs and hot chocolate in the gym, giving away 700 hot dogs. I had my pickup and my canopy set up and I gave away a lot of candy, there was a huge crowd of people. This ministry provides a nice alternative for parents who can bring their kids to our place instead of the street and have a big gym with warm food and a bouncy house to play on. As each kid reached in my cooler and got a handful of candy I would pray for them, their parents and family asking God to work in their life and to draw them to Himself, and that being there on our parking lot, and in our gym would plant seeds in their heart and that at a later date those seeds would sprout and they would come to a regular church service and would become part of our church family and part of God’s family.

There are so many different tools available to us as we work to reach the lost. Many different people have used their strong desire to save the lost to stir their creative minds to think of ways and methods and simple ways to influence lost people to trust Christ. I was sitting in my lawn chair last night looking at all the kids that were everywhere around me and I thought, “I wonder who invented this simple spinoff of the old traditional “trick or treat”, and what prompted it.

It was a lot of fun seeing all those kids and imagining the potential that was walking by me of future disciples of Jesus.