Winter Conference stories cont.

Every year at Winter Conference a large chunk of time is set aside for evangelism. Our goal is two fold as staff. 1, we obviously are passionate about sharing the Gospel so we are hoping to give people in the DFW area an opportunity to respond to Christ. 2, we are aware that there is a low chance that the people we talk to, we will never see again, so our hope also is that our students will be faced with an opportunity to share thier faith. We hope that it will grow them in confidence, and that they would be trained on how to lead someone to Christ, so that when they go back to campus they are likely to be more bold in thier ministry.
Each year's evangelism seems to be a little different. Some times we just appoach people in a park with a survey about spiritual things, sometimes we serve at a local soup kitchen meeting peoples physical need so that we may meet thier spiritual. We have gon to neighborhoods, malls, in many different locations with the goal of entering into a spiritual conversation with someone so that they would know that God wants a relationship with them through Jesus.
They year we got very creative. One of our strategies this year was a Flash Mob. You know what this is....You're in a random public place, music starts playing and suddenly a "mob" of people begin dancing, then after the song is over all the people dissappear into the crowd. Well that doesn't make much sense for evangelism??? Basically what we did was when the flash mob dance ended, instead of dissappearing, we used the attention gained for our benefit. It was such a great God inspired idea.
Our campus and a few others went to the Ticket City Bowl game at the Cotton Bowl, which was Penn St v U of Houston. So when the game let out there was hundreds of people exiting the main gate, then BOOM the music starts and a 7 or 9 random people are dancing and a small crowd notices, about 30 sec later about 40 people rush the scene and get in on the dance, then 30 sec later there are almost 80 college students flash mobbing. There are hundreds and hundreds of people watching, i'm bad with numbers but i'm going with like 350. So, dance goes on, the song ends and then an even more beautiful scene. The college students immediatly begin to initiate conversations with individuals in the crowd asking what the thought of the flash mob and asking them to take a survey about fanhood and life in which our students we be able to easily transition in a spiritual conversation where they could share the Gospel. It was awesome.
They were able to flash mob two of three time bc the crowd was so big. Yeah, there were alot of no's and alot of people who could care less. But, the Gospel was shared! I went with one of our freshmen guys, and i completely turned the reigns over to him and gave him the lead. He was a little nervous at first, but he ended up stepping out in faith under the power of the Holy Spirit and shared his faith for the first and second time ever that day! God is so big that He can use something as silly as a flashmob, and unreliable and an under experienced nervous freshman in college to bring the Good News of Jesus Christ to people!