I Have an Idea

I’ve got an idea…



I recently had a thought a couple of weeks back that stemmed from an experience. I was driving down HWY 18, near I-40, and I came across a woman standing at the corner with a sign that read, “Anything helps.” Sitting on the ground next to her was a small dog and a bag. Right or wrong, the skeptic in me always assumes that people like this are scammers, and therefore I do not typically give handouts to them. However, this time was different; I noticed that I had a sealed bottle of water in my truck sitting right there in the cup holder. It was a hot day, and I figured, “what the heck, I’ll give her this water.” I motioned for her to come over and handed her the water. She replied very gratefully, “Thank you, this really helps me a lot.” It wasn’t much, and for all I know, she may have had a case of water waiting for her at home, or maybe she didn’t home at all. Who knows; but this experience sparked a thought for a witnessing ministry.



You have probably all seen the bottles of water that have logos of sports teams or the state fair on them. I’m sure there is a company out there that specializes in this; so my thought is, why not have some bottled water made up with scripture on it and hand it out to those in need? I wouldn’t want to put First Christian Church on it, for fear of more people coming for handouts, but put something meaningful on it; something that might just change somebody’s life. Sometimes it is the little thing that matter, and bottled water is a little thing, but the message it could carry could be the saving grace for someone else.



Just a thought.



Josh – joshualclark@shawneedisciples.org