"Hello Lads, we started off the day helping members of Musselburgh Baptist Church go door to door passing out leaflets for the upcoming Good News Club. Good News Club is an event at the church in August for children ages 5-12 years old who may not know the Gospel. The children come for a couple hours a day to play games, eat snacks and learn Bible stories. The team went out in groups to different areas of the city and passed out over 1,000 leaflets.
Afterwards, the team returned to the church around 12:30 for a senior citizens lunch. We helped serve the seniors and got to know them (Caden and Jacob really seemed to have charmed the senior ladies.) Many were not from the church so this was a great opportunity to get them in the church. We played trivia with them and proved not to know our British history as well as we thought. Some of us that drank too much tea were called "tea-jennies." After we ate and played the trivia game, Dan got to give a small talk on forgiveness. Heads up - DO NOT play a harmonica while you're around Dan!!
After our last sip of tea, Graham took the team out to pass out more leaflets. We went door to door for about another 2.5 hours. We then stopped for a quick refresher at our host homes. In some of the houses that meant playing with the young kids in the homes, in others it might have meant a quick nap.
The Gibsons had the team and church members over for a traditional Scottish meal. It was a great time for fellowship with new friends and also caused a wee-bit of tension during some of the games.
All in all we were encouraged giving leaflets directly to people's homes and we will keep praying for Mussleburgh Baptist Church's Good News Club this August. We hope you will pray with us that God will open up people's minds and hearts to consider attending the church. We pray the senior citizens we met will stay excited to come to the lunch/tea time. Through the lunch time we pray they will become committed followers of Jesus Christ. We miss you all! Hugs sent from Scotland :)"
-The Americans (aka Ariana, Sarah, and Grace)
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