KE08 Wrap Up

What a glorious sight it was last Saturday during the Love Granbury Kindness Explosion - 10 different churches outside their walls taking God's love into their communities, many of them working together in the same neighborhoods. It truly was an amazing day.

One of the most amazing things about servant evangelism is how common, ordinary items or acts become extraordinary when offered out of a heart overflowing with God's love. It's so cool to watch as a hot dog, a cookie, a bottle of water, or a bag of chips transforms before your very eyes into a tangible expression of God's love! In the same way, a simple act like pumping someone's gas and washing their windshield becomes a holy moment in time. We live in such a "nothing for free" society, that when faced with the prospect of getting something for nothing, many people become highly suspect. It's not at all unusual to hear phrases like "what's the catch" or "why would you do that"? Even after you tell them that what you're doing is completely free, many people still want to know if you're accepting donations! When it finally starts to sink in that they are about to recieve something for nothing, simply as a way to show them God's love, you can almost hear the door to their heart creek open ever so slightly. What a holy moment indeed!

Those moments were in abundant supply all over Hood County last Saturday. We may never truly know on this side of eternity how many seeds of God's love and kindness were planted by the Body of Christ this past weekend, but what we do know about is phenomenal! Here are the overall stats as we have them:

Over 500 people participating representing 10 different churches
Approximately 1,350 hot dog lunches (w/chips and drinks) given out
28 vehicles washed
1,676 bottles of water handed out
Over 500 cookies home baked and distributed to local businesses
12 widows home worked on
Pumped gas/washed windshields for approximately 300 people
Distributed approximately 3000 Healthy Kids Summer Lunch Program flyers door-to-door in all of our Healthy Kids neighborhoods as well as at the Granbury City Park and at Granbury Middle School.

All this done free of charge, no donations accepted, no strings attached...all to show God's love in a tangible way! And remember that with each contact, whether it was from handing someone a free hot dog, a bottle of water, washing their vehicle or pumping their gas, each person was handed a "kindness card" with the simple message that what we were doing was a free gift...just like God's love is free! What a simple, yet profoundly powerful message!

As we talked about at the Saturday evening celebration service, the way to truly make Kindness Explosion 08 a real success, is for each of the participating churches to make the commitment to integrate some form of "servant evangelism" into their normal routine of ongoing ministry. Whether it's monthly, semi-monthly, quarterly, or whatever, there's simply nothing more powerful to a watching world than our churches getting outside their four walls and into their communities to share the love of Christ through servant ministry with no strings attached. To God be all the honor and glory!

We Welcome Just Like Jonah!

Love Granbury is excited to announce that the group Just Like Jonah has committed to being with us as worship leaders for both nights of the Kindness Explosion, April 11th and 12th. You will not want to miss hearing these guys as they lead us in worship!

Fairview Baptist Announces their KE08 Project

Fairview Baptist Church has announced their service project for the KE08 coming up on April 11-12, 2008. Fairview will once again be making the Volaro Convenience Store/Gas Station at the corner of Old Cleburne Road and Hwy. 377 (across from Walmart) a full service gas station complete with gas jockies and windshield washers from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. The group from Fairview did this last year and had a blast...so much so they want to do it again this year. This was one of our favorite projects last summer for KE07. Great job Fairview!

Service Projects for KE08

Good evening to all our Love Granbury participating churches! Please remember to be thinking about what you want your service project to be for KE08. We need to have this information by no later than 3/14 so that we can shoot the project preview video during the week of Spring Break. Thanks and have a blessed day tomorrow!

We Welcome Two New Churches to Kindness Explosion 08!

We are very pleased to announce that Harvest Church and Generations Church have joined us for the Love Granbury Kindness Explosion 08! Please join us in welcoming these two great congregations to KE08!

KE08 Point Person Meeting

This is just a friendly reminder about the Love Granbury KE08 Point Person meeting tomorrow at 12 noon at the First United Methodist Church (our host church this year). Lunch will be provided by FUMC and this will just be a short informational meeting for your designated point person, whoever that might be.

If you were no able to make the initial meeting two weeks ago, that's not a problem. Come on and join us tomorrow at noon and you can get all the information you need about this year's Kindness Explosion Servant Evangelism Outreach.

Thanks and I look forward to seeing all of you tomorrow at noon.

Kindness Explosion 08 Dates Announced!

The dates for the Love Granbury Kindness Explosion 08 have been announced. Those dates are April 11-12, 2008. Kindness Explosion 08 will start on Friday evening, April 11, 2008 at 7:00 PM with the Kick-off worship service. The Kindness Explosion servant projects will start at 10:00 AM on Saturday, April 12th and continue until approximately 2:00 PM. The Kindness Explosion will wrap up on Saturday evening at 6:30 PM with the celevration/wrap up service. Mark your calendars now and make plans to attend! Specific information will be coming to you just after the first of the year.