Flickr: Photos from reidbook70
Wow, what a great night!
For those unable to make it: PCCers met at the north end of the football field right under the fireworks.
We brought a cooler of water and about 20 popsicles from our freezer and they went over great with our people.
At 8:00, we organized a low-pressure blitz of flyers through the crowds, and I heard several positive reports of conversations. I had several good conversations with our people in our community, and Tandy knows of several families who want to come Sunday. We gave out all 500 flyers. I’m sure we’ll see from fruit. It was awesome to see our students reachig out. This was our very first stab at this as an outreach (this was only the 2nd year VR had fireworks). We all agree it would be so much easier to invite people if we were also giving out popsicles or glow sticks.
PCC kids were having a blast climbing on the goalposts (is that wrong?)
The fireworks were AWESOME! Everyone said they were the best they had seen even from cities much larger. And everyone also commented that this was the closest they’d ever been to them. They had an incredible finale and really, really loud ones.
Afterwards, all PCCers waited for about an hour for traffic to clear out, but the kids were playing and everyone was talking…it was great.
Ideas for next year:
1. We bring coolers of drinks for PCCers (bring your own picnic food or buy from the booths they have)
2. Hang out from 7:00-8:00
3. At 8:00, we hand out popsicles or glow sticks/loops, frisbees or small beach balls (Stephanie Cartwright’s idea) along with a flyer/postcard/You’re invited businesscard
4. April had the idea of red, white, blue “Freedom in Christ” shirts.
Basically, we make it a fellowship/outreach.
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