Impact has a unique way of reaching the area hotel and resort staff year around. We were trained for a minute by Todd Wood, and we took our four dozen home-made chocolate chip cookies and headed out to the endless resort and hotels on the beach.
The goal of the day: to just say thank you to all the staffers at the hotels, see if there was an open door to share Christ or pray with them. We found that some people were open, some were closed and some were in between. Our hope is that by continually coming by and offering a nice gesture like cookies and a smile, we may have the opportunity to build relationships with the people. We know that we will not reach everyone we reach out to, but we know that we will reach some. People are reluctant (understandably so) in welcoming a stranger, but we feel that the Lord is leading us to reach out none the less.
I will keep you up on what the Lord does in this outreach. Already, Todd is inviting us to serve water bottles weekly to the life guards all up and down the grand strand. He says over 50% of them are from foreign countries. We will then invite them to a weekly dinner at a local church. The Bible tells us that the harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few. As simple as what we did today was, there are no huge testimonies. More than anything, we moved off of our booties. Already, my heart is stirred for the people we met: James working at the pool, Cassandra at the front desk, Noel pushing the trash buggy, to name a few that I remember.... God cares so much about these few. Can you imagine all the staffers we did not get to? We are excited to do what we can to partner with God to share the love and message of Christ to win our city to the Lord.
-Stu
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