Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Samaritan's Feet

Yesterday some students and most of the pastors from church helped with a Samaritan's feet distribution. If you have never heard of Samaritan's feet, here's a rundown: You gather kids in a poorer neighborhood at a church, have fun stuff (games, VBS) for them to do for several hours. You bring in several kids at a time and proceed to wash their feet while sharing the gospel with them. Hundreds of shoes are donated, Nike makes a shoe without their logo that is used as the main shoe, for 30 bucks you can buy 2 pairs to donate. Saturday in DC they gave out 1050 pairs of shoes and at least 700 Monday. At the end of teh day when all the shoes are given out there is a worship service in which teh gospel is shared again and people are given teh opportunity to respond.
On the choir tour this summer we will be doing this, I am excited to see the students learn how to share their faith to a stranger and see how God uses that experience to raise their confidence for sharing their faith.
Phase 1 of the Youth Garage update is finished-the video portion. Next up is the audio, new sound baord, new mics, new snake, etc. The last phase will be putting on a new flooring and getting some new furniture and re arranging it to suit our needs.

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