favor for the way of the cross

Tonight we hosted our first night of "The Way of the Cross." (See previous post for more details.) It was incredible. Because it is a self-guided experience we space people out so they have time to go through the spaces on their own. At one point it was standing room only in the waiting area to go into the sanctuary! We had 99 people go walk through in only 3 hours. Tomorrow we're doing it again for four hours! Can't wait to see how many we have come this time.

We were blessed to have not only the front page of the paper, as you see in the previous post, but also they put us on the front page of a weekly supplement which includes sales papers, etc., and goes to every household in the county! Talk about favor!

In doing this now for four years, we've never had the favor that we're experiencing this year. Not only that but the most we have ever got to walk through our presentation was 35 people over two days when we did it at our previous church. We didn't care, because we thought of it as a spiritual discipline for ourselves, but were always disappointed that it didn't seem to matter how much we promoted, not even our own church really supported it.

But tonight we were clocking about 1 person every 2 minutes coming to the presentation and leaving blessed and saying their coming back tomorrow with friends!! Praise God for his favor and his grace!