Gas Station

Today at Vinings Lake, we cancelled our "regular" services in order to serve our community. As you can read on my previous blog, teams went to serve in a nursing home, Silver Comet Trail, parking lots to minister to people, a widow's home, homeless in Atlanta, Starbucks to give free gift cards away, a local apartment complex to play games, etc.

Today, the team I went with payed down the gas pump .25 per gallon for about 1 1/2 hours at a local Racetrack Gas Station.......it was absolutely amazing!!! When the signs went out saying "Cheap Gas" - the cars started to flood in - they were lined up at each pump. There were about 20 separate pumps and there was someone from VL at each pump basically welcoming each car and telling them who we were and that we cancelled church today - to "Be The Church" and serve our community.

There were great responses and people were impressed - not just with what we were doing - but with the fact that we did it on a Sunday morning. One of the ladies on our team said she told people that we were "practicing what we preach" - great words!

We will definitely do this again.

I think a few weeks out of the entire year - it's ok not to hear another sermon - and actually provide opportunities for people to do something with what we have already heard.