Parents Tears . . .

I was called out to a scene yesterday afternoon that broke my heart. A house caught fire and a young child perished. Two of us from the MPD chaplaincy were there to serve the family for a couple of hours. Both parents are torn up as you might guess. Pray for them as they begin to feel this loss and recover from it. Pray for the first responders, police, fire, paramedics and chaplains as all of us deal with this loss. No words of wisdom, today only thoughts about promises of the hope of glory that awaits all of us. May God grant this family peace and comfort in the coming days.

The Nativity Story . . .

We are excited about the release of the movie "The Nativity Story". This story has the ability to impact our community for Christ, like no other movie since the "Passion". This story is told from Mary and Joseph's point of view. This story line is developed very well and is the best quality.
Davis Park Church of Christ has purchased the seats of an entire theater for December 2, 2006 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets for guests of members are free, members cost $6.00. Make sure you invite your friends and family. The trailer for the movie may be seen at www.thenativitystory.com. If you live in Modesto and would like a free ticket to this screening please contact, Buddy at 209-522-7226.

NOC 2006 . . . National Outreach Convention

The national outreach convention has come and gone. Three days in gorgeous San Dieago. Lots of vendors with good outreach stuff/ideas. Classes that fire you up and make you want to slap yourself for not thinking of the idea sooner. No heavy theolgy to contend with, just practical ideas how to get people to Jesus for the first time or to learn to share him.
Good ideas . . . The Nativity Story will be coming to a theater near you, why not get excited about it and bring friends to see it and then invite them to church.
Publish a book with the great stories of transformation from you congregation. We will be work on this in the near future. Work on your stories now, be ready.
Comedy night! Christian Comedians come to the church to put on a show, we invite people who want to come and laugh. Many other great ideas were shared by those attending. It was good to be involved in the convention and to learn so much more about outreach.

Harvest Festival, aka Trunk or Treat

Our largest outreach event of the year has come and gone. Awesome! What a night, over 1000 visitors were on our property. This year we had many incredible stats, like 1000 meals served, 500 hot dogs and around 500 bowls of stew. The food crew did a great job of keeping the food coming until it all ran out. Candy, around a half ton of candy was handed out by the 38 decorated trunks. The most decorated trunk was Frank Munian's Pig house (three little pigs), he actually built a house that went over his car, 2x4's and shingles. Our 6 kids games handed out over 1200 prizes plus candy. Our goal of course is to win souls for Christ. This year we added invitations and goody bags to hand out from our info booth (250 were handed out), which was the only place to get hot chocolate and coffee. Over 10 gallons of hot chocolate and 3 gallons of coffee were given out.
All of this took alot of effort on the part of the whole congregation. Thank You Davis Park for Reaching Out to your neighborhood!