A guy I talked with last night just made my week! Maybe my month! April 4th, our church put on "Easley Egg Drop 2009". The concept was simple. Drop a bunch (about 180,000 or so) plastic eggs from a hot air balloon. We gave away prizes, cotton candy, snowcones, popcorn, drinks...everything was free and open to the community. About 200 volunteers from our church helped put on the event. From a numbers perspective, it was a success, somewhere around 10,000 people or more came and participated. Kids had fun, lots of smiling faces etc. Now, back to the guy I talked to last night. He was sharing his testimony with me in a parking lot. He and his wife both got saved after coming to the Egg Drop! They couldn't believe that everything really was free! They interacted with people from our church and found them to be friendly and helpful. So they decided to check out our church. A couple weeks later, the wife asked Jesus into her heart! Then a week after that, this man had asked Jesus into his heart! God is now working in both of their lives! So what does dropping a plastic egg with a tootsie roll in it have to do with bringing people to know Jesus Christ in a very personal and wonderful way...absolutly nothing...unless it is accompanied by people who are sharing the love of Jesus Christ with others while not expecting anything in return. That selfless love is what brought this man and his wife to the Lord!
PS. Thank you to all the volunteers who helped out! This family's salvation is in a large part due to your actions!
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About Me
- Burl Walker
- I teach Spanish at North Greenville University in Tigerville,SC. I also am the connections pastor at 5 Point Fellowship in Easley, SC.
6 comments:
Hey Burl,
how exciting to see the fruits of massive resources both financial and personal, resulting in salvation, the greatest gift to man! what a time for rejoicing.
I have often wondered though, if we could get those same people (myself incuded) to just walk up and down their own street once a week... knock on every door and ask if they could pray with the occupants about anything they wanted prayer for, a sick child, a job, a stressful situation, an exam at school... how much of an impact would that make in their community? I wonder?
Case,
"There are different kinds of working but the same God works all of them in all men. Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good." If God is encouraging you to reach out by going door to door, than you better do so! Each of us have different gifts and thereby responsibilities before our Lord and Savior, the Almighty God of the Universe! If you need help in organizing such an event...let me know. I have learned that my gift isn't being the "front man". I love the behind the scenes organization.
Well said Burl... Well said! Additionally, as a pastoral friend of mine once said... it is not possible for us to measure or place a value on what benefits the kingdom of God will enjoy when the people of God simply come together to work on a huge community project such as the egg drop or VBS programs, the fellowship, the mutual encouragement, the binding together for the common cause of Christ... only God can know what benefits a local assembly and the kingdom of God at large will reap in the process... thank the Lord!
A famous evangelist once said it is much easier to get the people on board with a vision whose scope is astronomical in nature, costing millions of dollars, than it is to get them to share the vision and donate for a new church washing machine.
I think that famous evangelist was Dan Betzer! (Or maybe he stole that line - but it is an interesting insight!)
Sorry I was not quoting Dan Betzer, however on your behalf, I purposely paraphrased the quote removing the specifics that would have given away his actual identity. But in your favor... you were the pastoral friend I was quoting (paraphrasing) :)
Just to be clear, he was quoting Randy, not me!
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