Big and Little

So we're coming up on Halloween. I know, some of you ignore it. Some try to make it a Harvest festival. We just happen to love two of the essential ingredients for Halloween - kids and candy. So we have since the first year I have been here had some sort of outreach/fellowship activity for the neighborhood kids.

The first year it was setting up two tables in the parking lot and having a "costume contest" where we took Polaroid (yes, it was 9 years ago -pre-digital)pictures and oohed and aahed over the cute kids and gave massive amounts of candy away. When they got their pictures taken, they also registered to win a Veggie Tales video. Such was outreach 1999. At the time, we were about it. No other church really wanted to touch Halloween with a ten foot pole.

Now "Orange Night" takes place in the city next door between the ginormous Methodist franchised mega church and the not too shabby sized First Baptist across the street. The production befits the size of the churches, and they manage to get some of the other smaller local churches to combine their efforts too. They'll have a couple thousand or more over there.

But we're still going to do our own thing.

Why?

Not everybody likes big.

Big is loud. Big is hard to park at. Big means worrying about your kid getting lost or eating something you'd they'd rather not. Big is great if you like it. But not everyone likes it. Bunny had a Mom ask her today "Are Y'all doing anything for Halloween?" Bunny mentioned we were going to show Monsters Inc outside and roast hot dogs and give away popcorn, sno cones, and candy.

"That sounds nice."

There's a place for all size churches friends. Just like there's a place for chihuahuas and Great Danes. Here's our friend Henley. :)