CHILDREN’S DAY PARTY EVANGELISM

Only a month and a half after renting our new church location, “Children’s Day” in Mexico (like a “Mother’s Day” or “Father’s Day”) provided us with an opportunity to spread the Gospel among our new neighbors.

During the two weeks prior to the event, we regularly passed out flyers around the neighborhood and posted a big children’s invitation banner outside the building- we did not want the event to pass by unnoticed!

The front patio to the church was covered with children’s games: an inflatable bounce house, a rented trampoline, bowling, foosball table, soccer goal, craft station, face painting, ring-toss and more, with music blaring and candy distribution.  And the event certainly drew a crowd!  Approximately 50 children arrived along with 30 adults!  

After a time of games, the children enjoyed a puppet show presenting Jesus as the good

shepherd, and afterwards Paco shared the message of the Gospel with children and adults alike.  He marveled to see serious attention to the Bible message among the crowd and multiple heads affirming as he shared!

Before leaving, each child received a donut and ice cream cup- a special treat!

The community response to the event was very positive!  Three different families approached Paco afterwards to talk about

their relationship with the Lord, as well as the church schedule of activities.  

One family surprised Paco: they confessed that they had been wandering around looking for another Children’s Day event to start at the same time as our party, but after joining our celebration by mistake, they decided to stay.  Then, after hearing the Bible message they recognized that they wanted to grow more in the Lord.  We marveled how the Lord brought them, apparently by “pure coincidence”, to our

event where they were convicted by the Lord.