Papa Jack's County Kitchen gave us a pretty good deal on sausage biscuits. For a planned community outreach, we purchased 150 sausage biscuits from Papa Jack's and set up two stations at stop signs in front of the church. On Monday, November 26th (the Monday after Thanksgiving holidays), we gave out the breakfast biscuits to folks as they were headed out to work in the morning. We started at 7:00 AM and were done giving them away at 8:00 AM. No charge, just love........
It didn't seem like that big of an outreach to begin with, however. We know we need to get out into the community more and be good Christians but something always seems to keep us pinned up within the confines of the church. So, instead of going door to door, we stopped folks from neighborhoods around the church as they were heading out to work after having a four day holiday. We gave them a free breakfast biscuit with our church web address and "Have a blessed day!" sticker on the wrappers.
Peoples' reactions to our good will offering were great! One guy came back by after running some errands and forced us to take a monetary donation for the church. Another person came back, parked in the church parking lot, crossed the street and chatted with the pastor about what we were doing. We saw many grins and smiles and received genuine thank-you's for what we were doing. We got looks of amazement for our braving the cold weather. We were ignored by some who were in too much of a hurry to roll down their window. And when the biscuits ran low, we got a little sad to see it all end. It was that good....it was the kind of feeling one gets when the bitter-sweet end to a mission trip comes. Often, you find yourself feeling more blessed than the ones you were sent to help and yet, without fail, you feel you blessed them. God made it that way. It was Jesus' plan.
He said, "Love the Lord with all your heart, mind, body and soul and love each other." It's what's in a biscuit.
It didn't seem like that big of an outreach to begin with, however. We know we need to get out into the community more and be good Christians but something always seems to keep us pinned up within the confines of the church. So, instead of going door to door, we stopped folks from neighborhoods around the church as they were heading out to work after having a four day holiday. We gave them a free breakfast biscuit with our church web address and "Have a blessed day!" sticker on the wrappers.
Peoples' reactions to our good will offering were great! One guy came back by after running some errands and forced us to take a monetary donation for the church. Another person came back, parked in the church parking lot, crossed the street and chatted with the pastor about what we were doing. We saw many grins and smiles and received genuine thank-you's for what we were doing. We got looks of amazement for our braving the cold weather. We were ignored by some who were in too much of a hurry to roll down their window. And when the biscuits ran low, we got a little sad to see it all end. It was that good....it was the kind of feeling one gets when the bitter-sweet end to a mission trip comes. Often, you find yourself feeling more blessed than the ones you were sent to help and yet, without fail, you feel you blessed them. God made it that way. It was Jesus' plan.
He said, "Love the Lord with all your heart, mind, body and soul and love each other." It's what's in a biscuit.
