St. Patrick's Day Outreach 2014

Tony and I had a good time at the St. Patrick's Day parade this year.  Since it was on a Monday we had to take off of work to share with the lost in downtown Des Moines. 

We got there super early and went inside and outside talking with people and passing out tracts.  When 11 am rolled around the crowd was decending upon downtown and people were lining the streets and skywalk bridges.  It was a crazy scene as usual.  The people were really interesting this year with all the costumes but it never lost the family atmosphere.  The people were really friendly and fun.  The perfect event to bring the family to and do some witnessing.  By the way...that is NOT me on the right.   

The one-on-one conversations were really good from my end.  The first one I had was with a young man from Jinja, Uganda named Raymond.  It was really cool to talk with someone from a place I went to on a missions trip.  He has been searching and you could tell that the gospel was hitting him from a constant tear in his eye the entire time I talked with him.  I have to remember to bring some things dealing with science and the bible because he was not sure that they can be in agreement.  I had a hard time conveying that and looking for my Evidence New Testament from Living Waters which I had left in my backpack in the car and I normally carry with me.  But I had some paper and wrote down the Answers In Genesis website.  In find that a lot of times if I don't have an answer that there is a website that will.  AIG has been a very useful tool over the years. 

After Tony had left I stuck around after everyone was going home.  I was able to talk to a group of teens.  One kid said he was a Christian but turned to Satanism (which in reality don't worship Satan, but themselves) and assured him that he never was a Christian in the first place using 1 John.  But I focused on one young man who said he was a Christian with the same epistle. 

The season opener went very well.  I gave out 400 St. Paddy's million dollar bills from Tract Planet and some great conversations.  I really like these Tract Planet tracts because of the QR code on the back that takes you to this website. If you would like to join us please give us a buzz.