Saturday, October 24, 2009, we hosted a "Bless the Streets" event in Southtown. The event lasted 1.5 hours (from 2:00 to 3:30 pm), and included 3 rappers, a dancer- see Trey above- and about 300 hotdogs). The event was a combination of three things converging:
1) PING has been eliminated from the Southtown equation- and there is a new group, T.R. McCoy (think, "The Real McCoy") that is in. They are very friendly towards us- and wanted to set up a time when they could announce to the neighborhood the new things they would be providing. The line-up they have planned is excellent.
2) We have been providing GED classes every Tuesday evening at Southtown- and still do- and we hosted a Prayer Force United prayer walk back in June... this was a good time for us to come back and publicly, outside of class on Tuesdays, say, "Hey, we're still here... we haven't forgotten about you."
3) Pastor Short-Tee is hosting the Gospel Hip-Hop awards this Saturday evening (October 31st- yes, on Halloween) at the BJCC. A week of ministry leads up to that event- and he wanted to bring some artists to do some street ministry. By the way, I've been asked to "present an award" at the main event on Saturday : )
All three of these factors converged- and it seemed like a good idea to set Pastor Ron loose with The Trailer again (which is now getting all kinds of ministry mileage, thanks to his efforts). I'll blog some ideas from the event later this week. For now, enjoy Trey dancing on the video above.
Awesome! Thom would totally be all over this kind of event :D
Posted by: Kristine McGuire | October 26, 2009 at 10:55 PM