Halloween!

At 1pm, a bunch of us (The Ks, the Ws, Jimmy, Joy, Nick, Luke, Amy, Kevin, Cecilia, Connie, Sharon, and three women from Chinese Church) met at church to compile 300 bags of candy and tracts in Chinese, Spanish and English.
At exactly 4 o'clock, we moved the tables outside.
And by 4:05, all 300 bags were gone! We handed out hot dogs, and those, though less popular, were gone by 4:15. We passed out brownies after that, and by 4:30 we were all back inside, incredulous and catching our breaths after the whirlwind of our Halloween outreach.

Last year's event went quickly, but this has to be a new record! After cleaning up, we collapsed around a table at church, sipping tea and hot chocolate, completely blown away by how quickly our weeks of planning had passed into nothing. Hopefully, of course, the work of those bags has just begun, and tonight 300 kids around the neighborhood will flip through the tracts inside and see, some for the first time, how much Jesus loves them. Please pray that these papers would be viewed, understood and accepted rather than simply thrown away or forgotten.