March 17th is St. Patrick's day. Apparently, it is a pretty big deal in Kansas City. They estimate anywhere from 30 000 to 80 000 people attend this parade, dependent on the weather. And, it is a huge evangelistic event at IHOP. 600-700 IHOP-ers, decked out in green shirts joined. For 2-3 hours before the parade, there were several areas we could could participate :
1) Handing out pamphlets on St. Patrick which tell people exactly what St. Patrick was in Ireland to do.
2) Street Survey/Prophetic teams - When was St. Patrick born ? Where ? Did he go to heaven ? Why ? Are you going to heaven ? Why ?
3) Dream Interpretation teams - "St. Patrick went to Ireland based on a dream. What are your dreams telling you ?"
4) Musical teams
I wimped out and handed out the St. Patrick's day pamphlets. It was easy to do, and didn't have to worry about rejection. But, hearing the stories from the other teams, I want do that next opportunity - they had more fun.
During the parade, St. Patrick sat up on a big green mountain and shared 10-20 sec gospel messages, and the 600-700 green IHOP-ers, walked behind singing and waving streamers. It was quite cool. Here's some pictures:
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