Frightening Fridays #4

This week, I was heading out on Friday night with my sights set on the new skatepark in our community with hopes of handing out a few gospel tracts and possibly engaging a few people in conversation about the gospel.

On my way home, I passed a carnival/festival that sets up just off the main highway every year at this time. I had forgotten this was the weekend this festival was taking place. I've never attended it before. In years past, I've just inched my way along in the slowed traffic with my goal set on arriving home after a long day. This year I had a different interest in this traffic stopper also known as a festival. I knew that would be a great place to stop and engage in some witnessing, but I was pretty afraid/intimidated to do that by myself. I prayed for courage, swallowed my fear, and turned my vehicle in the direction of the festival/carnival.

Yep, it was a carnival. Interesting thing about today's entertainment culture, though. People seem to get easily bored, even at a carnival, which means there are a lot of people standing around doing nothing. I seized that opportunity and handed out gospel tracts (even gave a few to the carnival hands running the rides but had no one in their lines). I handed out several gospel tracts and then hit the road again. I didn't have any one-on-one encounters at the carnival (probably more because I was a big chicken than because of a lack of opportunity).

I headed to the skatepark. When I arrived there I could see maybe three kids hanging out at the skatepark. By the time I made the hike up to that area, not a soul was left. No kids anywhere. I hung around for about 10 minutes. I finally got a chance to read the Rules sign posted at the front of the skatepark. I've been too intimidated to get close to it when kids were there(interestingly, it had an egg thrown at it already, a little tough to read some of the words through the egg).

Alas, I headed home. No one-on-one encounters tonight but still had the chance to spread the gospel via the written word. I'm learning every Friday night is a little different.