This past December was filled with "Carolizing". I was so blessed to see this go over so well. We did it many times with our OAS students and had a few churches also participate in the city. This was a great way to get Christians sharing the gospel intentionally over the Christmas season. One quick story I have to share. We went down to a college campus to do some Carolizing one day only to find out the campus was already on Christmas break. So we decided to just go to the mall in that city and Carolize outside. While we ere doing it, I asked the head security guy if we could sing inside the mall. He brought me to the mall manager, I explained that we were the "Cherry City Carolers" (hey, technically we are if you think about it) and wanted to sing in the mall. Long story short, we ended up on a bug stage in the middle of the food court singing before Christmas shoppers! (By the way, this exact scenario played out at various malls in December for us, it was a blast). After we were done, I walked up to the security guard and began to talk to him. I noticed the whole time we were singing he was listening intently. He had never heard the gospel. In an amazing discussion and sharing time, this man surrendered his life to Jesus...in the food court of the mall...while on the clock at work! What a faithful God we have. There are many other testimonies of how Carolizing worked in the loves of people, but I think this one was the icing on the cake type of story.
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This particular church, which happens to be the one we attend, was able to do Carolizing in the Sky Bridge of a local mall. We also were able to raise some $ for the Salvation Army while doing it.
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| The familiar site for us this December... |
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