$10 Impacts The Kingdom - Again!

(We are continuing to share how people used the $10 Life Church gave them as a part of the LIFE challenge to impact the community.) JAY AND BETSY BOSLEY WRITE: We have been debating on and waiting for a good time and a good way to use the life church money. We thought about the drive through thing but wanted some more interaction with people. Tonight was that night. One of those guys trying to sell a vacuum cleaner came by and cleaned our couches for free. I talked to him the whole time and found out he had lost his job at a plant in Thomaston Georgia and had moved here looking for work. This was his first week on the job and he only gets paid if he can do 24 demos. At the end of the time I told him that people at my church were trying to buy someone a free lunch this week and so I was wondering if I could give him $10 for his lunch tomorrow. You would have thought I handed him $100. He was so grateful and couldn’t even believe it. I also gave him a Life Church card and he said he is going to try and come this week.

FIREPROOFING YOUR MARRIAGE!

Hey Folks - have you all seen the movie FIREPROOF yet? Please make time to do so - it is awesome! Take some friends with you. Really gives an important message about relationships that we all need to see - please go!

Also, wanted to remind you all that we will begin a 3-week series THIS SUNDAY at Life Church on "Fireproofing Your Marriage". The first 2 weeks we will go through 6 steps on how to affair-proof your marriage and then the last week, we will take a look at "Rebuilding After a Fire!" Please help us spread the word. See you there!

And can I digress just a second and something? OK - here it is - GO DAWGS!!!!

Pastor Tim
PS - I would still like to hear from more of you about the LIFE 101 challenge!

FREE WATER! More Life 101 action.

I just wanted to let you know how we used the Life 101 challenge. ...I guess that I am one of those people where a tree stump makes me sweat...The Chaneys decided to hand out Free Water! Instead of just reaching 10 possible people, I decided to use the ten dollars to buy 2 packs (around 50 bottles) of water). I figured this could reach lots of people in a small way. One of the main reasons that it has taken so long for me to get back to you is that we were waiting for a saturday that we didnt have a football game so that we could hand out the water as a family. So, anyway. we decided to go to the intramural fields and hand out water to people who were exercising. We set up our camp near the forest trail at the back of the fields. It was a great success! There were only 2 couples that didnt want water, one was araid of getting a cramp and the other had just started their walk and had lots of water with them. People were very interested in why we were handing out free water. The conversation almost always led to what church we go to and what made your church want to do a project like this. It was so easy to use the water as a segway to conversastion with strangers. When I approaced someone about a bottle of Free Water, they were almost always taken aback and very very grateful. They said comments like it was so great that our church was giving back to the community and one family's experience was that churches were just a "holy huddle". I was also encouraged since maybe 80% of people were families coming to hike or walk pets on the trail. Since the girls were with me, it was easy to strike up things to say with them. Not to mention, Bella was like flagging people down wanting to give them water and tell them about Jesus! She admitted to me that she was actually nervous about doing it but I admitted that I was to and we prayed and asked God for boldness and away she went! Anyway, we have some bottles left and cant wait to find another opportunity to give them away.
Erica Chaney