Mapping Carrollton

The City of Carrollton (Texas) has approximately 40,000 houses. I am not sure if this includes apartments or not. Actually, the total number does not matter too much to me. I wanted a way to be able to visually tract which of the houses I have been too. I was able to get a city map from city hall for free. I simply looked up the city web site and then sent a request for a map. They mailed it to me and I had it in about two days. Here is a picture of the city map. The pen at the top is pointing to an area that I highlighted that shows the portion I have covered so far.

I wanted the map of the whole site to pray over the city and also to be able to see in one shot the whole project. However, when going door to door, a zoomed in map is easier to deal with. For this purpose, I went to google maps, zoomer in on the area where I am working and then printed out the map. Then I use a highlighter to track the areas where I have been. This map shows the area that is pointe to by the pen in the top picture:

The push pin is my house. I started with neighbors on each side and am now working out from my house.

If you are planning to go door to door in your city, then these ideas to get a map from city hall and from google maps may be helpful to tract the progress as you go throughout the city.

Please continue to pray for me as I go door to door in Carrollton. I am talking with the Pastor of a church here in town who has indicated he may be interested in helping with this project. Due to schedules, we plan to meet up in early October.

A new blog for Carrollton

I decided to create a separate blog for the Carrollton for Christ effort of Bezeugen Ministries. This makes it easier for people to follow the effort without having to go through the other updates on the Bezeugen Ministries Blog. Feel free to subscribe to both blogs!

On Saturday we covered 13 more houses, had 6 more one on one conversations, gathered 4 more prayer requests and 2 more cans of food. With these, the total counts now stand as:

Houses visited:	296
One on One conversations:	83
Prayer Requests:	50
Items of food collected:	174

I've also been praying about other ways to reach Carrollton for Christ and researching these ways. If anyone has experience with these and can provide insight on their effectiveness please let me know. Some things I'm considering:

• Open Air revival at the park
• standing on a street corner with a sign or cross
• settign up a prayer table at a local wal-mart - I'll note here that although I was told the company policy allowed this, it appears the policy has changed. Two of the four wal-marts in or surrounding Carrollton have told me that they no longer allow this
• purchasing a billboard to proclaim the Gospel
• finding a place within Carrollton to do Project Ezra. Currently I do Project Ezra at Arbor Hills Nature Preserve in Plano which borders Carrollton.

To read past entries about this effort please visit the Bezeugen Ministries Blog entries:

• September 13 - provides a quick update
  
• August 30 - provides information on the method
  
• August 2 - update
  
• July 26 - the vision and report on first experience