Now that we have finished our film in the parking lot series; I have been running around in my mind thinking about a new outreach program. We will be having our Mid-West Rally in Carbondale Sept. 24-26. My idea, still in embryo form, (hopefully God is involved in this thought process) is to set up our sign along the main road next to the church reading: FREE COFFEE AND SCRIPTURE.

The idea is to set up outside with 3 or 4 coffee pots going and serving coffee to anybody who would drive into the lot because of the sign, give them some coffee and a scripture card. I’ll have some nice ones printed up. We would operate each weekday morning from 6:30 to 7:30 through the month of October.

Is 55:11

11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;

It shall not return to Me void ,

But it shall accomplish what I please,

And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

We finished our summer “Movie in the Parking Lot” outreach with a final barbeque this last Saturday night. Each Saturday we had 25 cent hamburgers and hotdogs while watching a prophecy film in the church parking lot. We had visitors come for the cheap burgers and some stayed for the film. We had people pray with us and it was a great time to do something for God. So this last Saturday we were all sitting around the grill enjoying ourselves when I asked Phillip, the outreach leader, if he thought the effort was worth it this summer. He replied in the affirmative and then Victor, our Ukrainian, who got saved the first night of the outreach said: “Sure it is worth it, I am here aren’t I?”

Luke 15:7 I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.  NKJV