Gospel Balloons

At our recent Women's Ministry Leadership retreat, God gave us a new idea for outreach, to attach notes to balloons, fill them with helium, and let them go. Very simple, very inexpensive. We made plans to do this Wednesday, at a preplanned church picnic at the lake. We had rain in our area Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, so the picnic was changed to the fellowship hall at Cottonwood.
As the church gathered for food and fellowship, a group of women and teenagers gathered around a helium tank, filling balloons, and tying ribbon to them, with cards attached.

The message was very simple
The Front:

Jesus loved you so much that He died for you.

We want the chance to love you too!

Come and visit with us at Cottonwood,

 any Sunday at 10:45.

Join us at 9:15 for small group Bible studies

and children’s classes.

Cottonwood Church; on Hwy 6,

 3 miles East of Dublin, towards Hico.

 For information, call 254-445-2929

(Bring this card with you when you come,

for a free drink at our coffee shop.)

And the back: 

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:8

 And just as each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment, so also Christ died once for all time as a sacrifice to take away the sins of many people. He will come again, not to deal with our sins, but to bring salvation to all who are eagerly waiting for him.

Hebrews 9:27-28

They took the balloons outside and passed them out to whoever wanted to help release them, then they let them go, with a lot of prayer that God would take the messages to those who really needed it.

I was not able to be at this event, although I really wanted to. I heard from many sources that it was a wonderful event, that we must do it again, with more balloons. A friend sent me this video. I hope you can watch it, and hear all the hooping and hollering that went on when the balloons went up. 

Today, I drove from Stephenville, through Dublin, through DeLeon, to Beaty, back through Dublin to Stephenville, thinking about those 100 balloon messages and praying that some hearts have been touched by those simple words.