Here on Church Growth Consulting we thought we should do a follow up article on the Free Lunch article we wrote earlier to tell you how things went.   The Free Lunch was a great success.  We got permission to use a bank parking lot on the highway near a busy intersection.  We went over at about 8:30 AM and set up tables and chairs under a few canopys that we have.  We set up two grills and brought some serving tables.  We had 120 hamburger patties and buns and 80 big hot dogs and buns along with all the trimmings.  We had 6 cases of water/soda and 5 cases of potato chips.  We  made four sets of big posters that said “Free Lunch” and “No Kidding”.  We also had about 30 volunteers who showed up to help with the outreach.  The last and most important detail was a small flyer that we taped inside of each of the to go boxes we served in.  It said, “Wow, there really is such a thing as a free lunch…”  ” I wonder what else might be true?    John 3:16″.

At 10:45 we prayed and then we sent 8 people out with signs on the highway.  The response was fast and immediate.  In sixty minutes we had to pull the signs off the road and by Noon we had served two hundred people.  We got some amazing feedback and we had people who came to church over the weekend becasue of the outreach.  We also had the local radio station talking about what we were doing!  This is a great outreach and I would recommend it to all of you.  The cost for the outreach was about $300 (three hundred dollars) but it was well worth it.  We are going to do it again soon, but we will double up on the food so that we can a little longer next time.