Hot dogs and the back of a VW

Ministry happens…

It’s true.  I’ll tell you what, I do a good amount of reading, wether it is blogs, books, tweets, or online papers…  I want to know what is going on… I want to be apart of it…

Recently I’ve been reading and thinking about what service looks like.  What does it mean to serve your community?  How can serving our community make a difference in the kingdom of God?  How can our church community jump in on it?

I haven’t arrived at any concrete solid answers yet.  Probably never will, (every place is different, and circumstances always change) but I do know that there are certain avenues that I want to head towards.

This past weekend we did just that, service.  There was a handful of us and we did just that.

It was pretty simple…

Our tools were:

• 1 VW hatchback
• 1 EZ-Up tent
• 1 mostly working grill (Grease Fire and all!)
• 1 camping grill
• 200 hot dogs
• water bottles/soda cans
• a couple coolers
• 1 small vat of sauerkraut
• 1 small vat of chili (I’m still not convinced it really was chili)

Here’s a few pictures…

What we were able to do was give away a whole bunch of hot dogs and make some great connections with people headed over to Del. Val.’s football game.  It was great.  A huge win for us (CONNECTION with people!) and for them(free hot dogs)!  This is a win for us because we were able to honestly say, this hot dog is truly free,and we don’t want/expect anything from you.  We just are here to serve you.  And in the words of my friend Rick, “We are here just trying to do whatever we can to help our community.  We’re from the church up the street.”  Love it.  It almost even sounds like a great name for the church…

What church do you go to, where are you from?  “Yeah we’re from  the Church up the Street”…

So, I think that there are two more home games.  We should be at both.  Let’s try and double our connections, double the amount of hot dogs given away and make this place a better place to live because of the difference that Jesus has made in our lives…

Thank you to Kris & Jan Gellar, Keith Cooper, Rick and Sarah Craven, Bruce Houser, Tiffany Gowesky, and many of you who donated food!  We are in this together.  Let’s keep serving our community.

Remember MINISTRY HAPPENS!

~Peter