Medina County Fair, Days 6 & 7
Posted by Jason Oesterling on August 9, 2008
(It’s so easy to fall off the blog wagon…7 days, just like that!)
The fair finished up on Sunday. Saturday night was our busiest night yet, while Sunday was dead all day. It’s hard to predict when the heavy traffic will be, but now we’ve got a pretty good idea in case we do this again.
All in all, I figure we gave out 12-14,000 freeze-pops, and 6-7,000 picnic invitations. Lots of great conversations with people, and some promises to attend the picnic, too. We also got a couple thousand door-hangers out, covering all of our highest priority neighborhoods.
Still no idea what to expect at tomorrow’s picnic – could be 10 people, could be 200. I didn’t put a hit counter on the church website till Thursday of the fair week (duh!), but in the 9 days since then we’ve had over 225 hits.
This morning I read Job chs. 38-42, because I needed to be reminded of who’s really in charge. I easily start thinking that this all depends on me, on how well I plan, on how well we execute our plans, on how well I speak at the picnic, etc. Those are great chapters to shut yourself up when you start thinking that way.
I’ll try to get a pic or two from the fair up soon. Praying that tomorrow brings us a number of people who need to hear the story of the Bible (check out our post-picnic plans here).
