Halloween's Track and Treat
When I lived in a more urban area we used to pass out tracts that were stapled to whatever candy we gave out to children on Halloween night. Since that time I live in such a remote area that this practice has been long forgotten but since I have met Pastor Doug and Ruth Dayhuff through my web site, they have reminded me of the excellent opportunity we have in this "Holiday" to bring about some good in it all. Here in their own words is a great idea for your church or as an individual to make the most of such an ungodly holiday.
 My name is Doug Dayhuff, my wife's name is Ruth and we are tract ministers. As tract ministers we are always trying to seek God's will for more effective tract ministry. He has clearly shown us the one event that the church can storm the gates of hell and it may not be what you think, it certainly wasn't what we would of thought.
On one holiday the church can plant as many seeds
as they might all year. That one event-Halloween!
While many churches are
having a "fall festival" or their own events
millions of aliens, ghosts and other monsters are
going house to house with an open sack. Instead of
enclosing ourselves in more churchanity why don't we
take this one unique event and spread The Gospel. We
call it "tract w/ treat". This assault on the gates
of hell is a three pronged attack. All three can be
used individually or collectively, remember Is.55:11
God's WORD never goes forth void but it accomplishes
the mission.
#1 Set up a table at church or busy area with
plenty of illustrated Gospel tracts, New Testaments
(you would be surprised as to how few have a Bible
these days), Bible coloring books...church
flier, and a regular selection of candy. Have the
folks working that table encourage passerbys to take
of the free comics.
#2 Folks that aren't at the table can pass out
Gospel comics from their home, instead of keeping
the light off, or huddling inside the church. It is
reported that in some towns some individual house
can pass out up to 500 Gospel comics in the two
nights of trick or treat.
#3 For those who don't like to be stationary
there is the MSU (Mobile Solids Unit). Get some
young people and thousands of Gospel comics and hit
the streets yelling free comics. You will be swamped
and the kids love what you have because they have
seen all the candy before. My wife gets choked up
because they almost always say thank you. It's like
they are not saying "thank you" to her but to Jesus
for the salvation plan contained inside the Gospel
comics.
   You can google gospel tracts to find illustrated gospel tracts, or do what we do for this event and look at www.chick.com. We are in no way affiliated with chick; it's just that they impacted our lives and like they're moto say "chick tracts get read." If you want any help with this please feel free to contact us at sjemusic@verizon.net
There WILL be a battle to do this any time we use
the Sword of The Spirit the enemy tries to take it
out of our hands, but let me assure you after 12
years of this that God's love and grace and power
will spill over you while this is happening.
Godspeed to you all!
Seeking His Kingdom First, Pastor Doug & Ruth
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