Sunday, May 30, 2010

What lies ahead

Having been doing door to door for nearly a year, I've been continually praying about how to do this more efficiently and also help others get started. In about two weeks we will have the following available:

A door hangar - the door hangar will be 11x4.5 inches. It will have an expanded Gospel message (more than twice as many words as our typical business card sized tracts). It will have an offer for a free DVD. The DVD that we will be using is "The Big Question" by Wretched. You can watch a preview below. The thought is that each group will stock the DVD themselves ($1 a piece in a spindle from wretched.tv). In the event you can't stock them, then we may be able to help by providing you a smaller quantity than Wretched sells. Finally, the door hangar will have a place where you can affix a label with your personal or church contact information.

Prayer Cards - we will be making pads with 50 prayer request cards on each pad. We will also be providing the PDF to make these yourself via the web site. With the PDF you can either contact your local Office Max (or similar) and have them make pads for you. Or you can just print them and use them on a clip board without making them into pads.


Food Drive sheets - up until now, I've been using a sheet about the food drive that comes from the food pantry. However, in order to provide a level of indirection with the food pantry, I've contacted several other food pantries that I can donate food to. I've also made my own flyer about the food drive which lists the various food pantries we are working with. The food drive sheets will be available as a PDF with a place to put a label about the food pantry (or pantries) that you are working with. I may make these into pads, or simply just print a few pages out as I need them. I don't typically go through very many of these sheets as I generally only leave one behind when the people are interested in making a donation later.

If you are thinking of getting started with a door to door campaign in your neighborhood, please check the video and information on the web site. Then let me know if you would like a starter pack of door hangars. What I am thinking is that we should be able to mail about 100 of them in a flat rate envelope. I wont know the exact logistics until I receive the door hangars. I am working with the printer to get pricing on these door hangars for you. So my thought is that once we send you the initial set, you'll be able to order more direct from the printer.

Let me know your thoughts. I pray that these resources will be valuable.

900

Yesterday I had Brian's company as we went to another 35 houses door to door. We only collected about six cans of food. However, we had some wonderful one on one conversations. Tracts were left at each door where no one was home. We met a fellow believer in Christ who was very encouraging to our mission. And we met a man who had converted to Christianity from Hinduism! Praise God. With these 35 houses completed, I have now visited over 900 houses. I am estimating that in 2-3 more hours I can wrap up the houses in my immediate neighborhood.

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Second Park Outreach

Please read about our second park outreach in the City of Carrollton in the Bezeugen BLOG.

New BLOG

There is a new BLOG called "First Thursday Day of Prayer". This group is dedicated to meeting at City Hall or your place of business to pray for the nation, state and city where you live. Please consider promoting this new blog and joining us (physically) or where ever you may live on June 3rd!

In Carrollton, we will be at the Carrollton City Hall at the Northeast corner of Jackson and Josey by the flag poles at 12:20-12:40PM.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

First Thursday - Prayer for the Nation

Today was the National Day of prayer. We joined about 40 other believers in front of the Carrollton (TX) City Hall and prayed. We prayed for our leaders. We prayer for our nations. We prayed for repentance. We prayed that our churches would preach Biblically. It was a blessed time. Afterwards we enjoyed some fellowship with the other believers that were there.

While talking, we thought, "why do we only do this one day a year?" So we quickly discussed it and decided rather than waiting until the first Thursday of May 2011, we would meet back the first Thursday of every month. I announced the plan to about 10 people who were still there. We heard a resounding, "see you next month."

So we have decided to have a prayer meeting in front of City Hall the First Thursday of each month. Will you join us? If you live in Carrollton, will you come on June 3rd and join us? If you don't live in the area, will you go to your City Hall and pray there for your town and our nation?