Car Wash & Bake Sale!! AMAZING, FULLFILLING DAY!

   Today started out with some doubts about the success of our bake sale and car wash we had at our local Sears Automotive. It was a different location that what we're used to, from our usual Advance Auto Parts. So our youth leader Curtis decided on taking our brigade of lovely teens to a more busy area of town. Right smack dab in down town, where ALL of the commotion carries on in busy traffic and sidewalk walkers.                    

   The day began with us arriving in Sears's parking lot, our baked goodies prepared to be gobbled up and the car wash to get a washing. But in my personal area of thought, I had doubt about the bake sale. However, I prayed through that doubt, giving it over to Jesus to take control of our success in the day of selling baked goods and washing dirty cars.

   The reason we were doing this bake sale was for the youth group, obviously. Get ahead on the money towards our events and mission trips.



Don't be fooled by her mean face,
she's a sweetie!

   Anyways, we arrived to Sears and there is people lined out the block, waiting to get inside the building next door to Sears. There was this big conference or something was going on. About five hundred people were there. So we took baskets and bags full of goodies and started advertising to them, and we got about seventy-five dollars worth out of the first round and made a couple more rounds and gotten about a hundred out of it. It was pretty awesome. Water was our number one best seller though. And our best salesperson was little Nora Rae. Who could resist a cute little girl's "Buy a cookie?"
     As the day wore on, we would have a occasional group of people stop by and buy goods, and maybe a person or two to get their car washed. We washed a few expensive cars, like a Mercedes Benz and a '96 Corvette. It was pretty awesome.

But our success wasn't booming until we were getting ready to leave. The conference let out. It was like the flood gates were opened and many hungry and thirsty mouths were coming our way.

We made over five hundred dollars. Over our goal mark! Boy! Jesus is good! He blessed us today with gaining so much money! It was AMAZING!

Laura holdin' her sign!<3

  There are nice people out there, you just have to be there at opportune times and at the right places. And those nice people have kind hearts, and kind hearts if they aren't already are for God, they wouldn't take much to bring them to know Jesus. Of course, you have the rude and nasty people among the kind people. But you can't let them get in your way or you can't stray from witnessing God's love to them. The people you least think that'll come to the Lord, may be the ones that will come easier than the ones you think are easy. That's the beauty of witnessing, God can grab a hold of anyone, anywhere, and anytime.

   I have a great feeling that we've caught many people today, or at least left an impression on them. But only God knows and needs to know, Its' His crop! And we're part of it!

  AMAZING DAY!

  With lots of love, Kristia S.

  +G-B-U+ <3