New Years Day door to door evangelism

On New Years Day, I started off the year by going door to door in my neighborhood. I was not sure how it would be received given that it was a holiday. However, I ended up having some great one on one conversations, gathered prayer requests and collected the largest amount of food in a single day yet!

The picture at the right shows the wagon full of food that I collected. That's right - my cart has become too small to carry the generous donations of food, so I am now using my wagon (that I've had since I was a kid) to carry the food home.

The table below shows the progress over the past three door to door outings as well as the totals since I started going door to door.

date	houses	1 on 1's	prayer     requests	food          items
12-Dec	35	13	11	86
26-Dec	23	11	7	56
1-Jan	69	17	7	96
total's	537	150	94	499

I would like to share one an exciting thing that happened when I went door to door on December 26. I was going to spend two hours going door to door in my neighborhood and then meet some friends in Dallas for Project Ezra, witnessing and tract distribution before the Dallas Mavericks game. At the last house that I went to I had the pleasure of speaking with two believers. We had a great time of fellowship and we talked about evangelism. The man said, "I wonder why God orchestrated this meeting?" I replied, "probably to encourage you to share your faith more." I then realized I was late for getting home to eat lunch before going to the basketball game. I thanked them both for their time and headed home. When I got home, I was eating lunch when a car pulled up and a man came walking up to my door. I answered the door. It was the man I had just been talking too. He said, "are you going to be staying for the game?" I said, "No!" He said, "can I come along with you?" I said, "of course!"

It turns out that from our conversation he felt convicted to join us on our witnessing event. We had a nice time of fellowship and handed out lots of tracts. It was really great for God to show me this other fruit of my door to door efforts that this man not only joined the tract club, but joined us witnessing. And, I expect he will be joining us again in the near future.