Citywide Gospel Campaign

I realize it's only Monday but I am extremely excited for this upcoming weekend. More specifically, I'm excited for the upcoming Citywide Gospel Campaign!

What is the Citywide Gospel Campaign, you ask? Well it's only the biggest, most organized, most publicized, most prayed about outreach event that Missionary Gospel Church has ever been involved in. In fact, I believe this is the first event of its kind to be put on by a Slavic church in Sacramento. The 4-day event features 3 evening outreach services and 1 Sunday morning service aimed to reach our American neighbors in the Citrus Heights area with the Good News of Jesus Christ.

The biggest challenge? Somehow inviting the 83,498 people living in Citrus Heights!

Sending invitations via the postal service proved to be way too expensive so we needed to find an alternative way to get the word out. That meant distributing 40,000 fliers on foot. I guess where there is a will, there is a way because a group of dedicated individuals prepared maps for about 200 routes!

I only did one of those routes but it included 3 apartment complexes. It took me 2 hours and then I ran out of fliers. I don't know how that happened because I grabbed a giant stack of fliers "just in case." Later, I figured out I did an extra apartment complex that wasn't part of my route. Oops.

I love the graphic design of the fliers! 

I was originally planning to do my route on Wednesday after work but after it started raining in the afternoon I decided to hold off and wait for better weather. When better weather didn't come the next day, I still ended up distributing my share of fliers in the rain. Makes for a better experience anyways.

With half an apartment complex still left and no more fliers, I left that night wet and tired (from going up and down all those apartment stairs!) but happy. God is good and it's always such an honor to be able to serve Him even in such small things. I thoroughly enjoyed distributing the flyers and praying for each home, asking God to work in the hearts of  people living there. Even if people don't show up to our event, I know God can still draw them to Himself through other means. Please continue praying and fasting for this event!

I grabbed another handful of fliers at church last night. Gotta go finish off that route today after work!

Check out the Missions Worldwide video with the Gospel message: