Church Picnic

Once a year, all three of the church campuses get together for a picnic and some baptisms. Have I mentioned that I think watching baptisms is one of the coolest parts of church-as-an-organized-religion? Standing at the edge of the water, surrounded by hundreds of people, just feels a little closer to New Testament than, say, dodging cars in the parking lot on the way out of a Sunday morning service.

And... we (the Focus Month group) got permission to set out an information table on human trafficking and do something "creative" to build awareness!

We collected every teenager we could find (while my mom watched the table for us) and drew 274 child sized stick figures on the sidewalk surrounding the picnic area to represent the 274 American children who are trafficked on US soil EVERY DAY.

It was a little less church-as-an-organized-religion but still very much church, in the sense that it was a group of people striving to bring glory to God by living life the way that Jesus told us to. And, that, is cool.