FREE Garage Sale - From 7 Book

I know some of you are wondering what ever happened to the last few chapters of the book 7! Sorry, the summer got crazy busy and I didn't have time to fully participate or blog about the rest of the chapters. BUT I did want to share something really cool that came out the book...we ended up doing a Free Garage Sale (I know that phrase is an oxymoron but I couldn't think of what else to call it) with our church.

It was really amazing...people from our church donated stuff, helped organize stuff, one family wanted to make sure we served the people who came donuts and coffee so they bought 12 dozen donuts to hand out! We had a table with free Bibles and a table where people could get prayer if they needed.

The whole goal was to be a blessing to those in our community who had needs. To be totally honest I started to get worried that we weren't going to get enough stuff and people would come and we would have nothing to hand out. But come Friday after four hours of organizing (with anywhere from 10-20 people) we still didn't have all the donated bags emptied!!! And people did not just bring their junk, they brought really nice stuff!

So come 8am Saturday morning the people were flocking in and they kept asking how much? To which we responded it's ALL FREE!!! They were amazed and we had the chance to share that the love of Christ compels us to want to serve them and be a blessing to them in any way that we can.

It was soooo cool to watch people being blessed by finding something they had really needed and watching lots of people from our church have a chance to work along side one another and to serve others. Here's a few pics:

I know it's hard to see but the parking lot was full when started!