My sister-in-law called me the other night to ask if our church had a large gymnasium or fellowship hall. I told her that we did. Then she asked me if I could maybe help her out with my nieces softball teams fundraiser delivery. She wanted to know if they could use our church to distribute the product to the parents. I told her that we could.
She told me the truck to deliver the product would be at the church around four o'clock Friday afternoon. I arrived at about 3:30, started some Christmas music on our stereo system and opened the doors. I was trying to set a festive atmosphere for people coming in and out. The truck arrived before anyone else did and they started to unload. I showed them where to go with the pallets. They had four total to unload. Shortly after people started showing up in a frenzy of action. From that point on it was non-stop.
My sister-in-law told me that she thought that it would last about an hour and a half. Sure enough, at about 5:30 the last pick up was out the door. Everyone kept thanking me for the use of the church. They told me that if it wasn't for us, they would have to had done this outside in the freezing cold. I told them that it was no problem and that I really enjoyed being able to help them out. I even helped some of the parents load their stuff in the cars or trucks.
So I don't know if anyone of these people here tonight will come back to our church, but the seed was planted that our church is available to help out when needed. We opened our doors for them and welcomed them in. Isn't that what a church is supposed to be all about? Helping out those in need. We are supposed to be Jesus' arms and feet. So hopefully that is what I showed them tonight with this little event. Praise the Lord for being able to do this and hopefully do it again.
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