Washing Feet on the Boardwalk
This beach foot washing will bless your socks off!
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Everyone said that this outreach would never work. "No one is going to let you touch their feet! You guys are crazy!" And that was from our church friends! They couldn't have been more wrong! We set up at The Board Walk in Santa Cruz about 1pm. There were just a handful of us. We chose a spot that was right at the entrance to the beach. Our supplies consisted of two fold up chairs, two plastic containers, paper towels, liquid dial soap, a 5 gallon jug to haul water, and a heart for the lost. Our opening line went something like, "Hi would you like to sit down and let us rinse the sand off of your feet?" We had very few no's! We were set up about an hour and a half. We were so busy that we actually had people lined up! We took about 3 minutes with each person. We silently prayed as we worked, however when asked about 95% let us pray out loud with them. We're from San Jose, about 40 minutes from Santa Cruz. Almost all of the people we served were from San Jose. There were many heart touching and memorable things that happened that day, but one I think we will all remember... a gentlemen from Asia kept calling one of our team members Jesus. We corrected him and explained to him who Jesus was and he replied with, "I know who Jesus is, you are just like Him." We had many obstacles that day. Too many to count. However we did have one very important thing going for us, our faith. We all knew that if we showed up and were faithful, Jesus would show up too. And let me tell you seeing Jesus in the eyes of the people we served was absolutely amazing. Shannon Pena From the October 2002 issue of sE-Mail, a Servant Evangelism e-bulletin. For more information, contact Shannon Pena at the church. © 2002 Servant Evangelism. Used by permission. Click here to subscribe to this monthly e-mail publication.
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