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