Buckets of Love

It felt like a victory, getting the Evangelism team and MAKE. team together to do creative evangelism this past March. The goal is for us to come together once a month, due to external circumstances we hadn't been able to get everyone together until March this year. We were able to set up on the seafront down in Brighton with our new outreach tool called Buckets of Love. The hearts you see above are the truths that we handed out to 59 people on the seafront in Brighton, while I was covering Florence and the Machine's "You've Got The Love" in the background.

Some people looked confused as we stood by our giant red wooden heart with tin buckets full of love, free for anyone who would take them. For most people it brought a smile to their face, people in cars, on bicycles, walking past, some stopping and even dancing, enjoying the tunes. They had surprise and delight on their face as they read the heart which they had dared to pull out. One of the things I love about the city of Brighton and Hove is that, being one of the most popular holiday destinations in England, even though we are reaching out to locals, the world comes to the city. In a span of 2 hours we heard Italian, German, Spanish and many other languages being spoken.

I wrote in one of my earlier posts, we believe we are meant to be a bridge to people who would possibly never encounter God. That is how Buckets of Love came about while using our God-given creativity, praying and asking for ideas of how to reach people with the truth that God believes about them, in a  loving and approachable way. I'm really looking forward to our next outreach!