You may be wondering what breakfast burritos have to do with Jesus.
Well, my friend, lucky for you I'm going to tell you. Ransom and I have been brainstorming and trying to come up with ideas for outreach in our community. *Light bulb* Let's make some breakfast burritos and take them to some businesses in the community. We thought this might be a great way to get the Gracepointe name out there.
Step one: Visit different businesses and get their permission to bring in breakfast (their choice of day and time) for their employees.
All we asked them to do was allow us to leave some tracts from our church and a paper saying who donated the breakfast. Overall we were received with enthusiasm!
Step two: Go shopping and get all the ingredients.
The reason we went with breakfast burritos was because...well...it's cheap.
Step three: Avengers assemble!..oh wait. Never mind.
Step three: burritos assemble.
I found this recipe on Pinterest (which you can see here). I didn't use bacon because, let's face it, bacon's expensive. Plus that's two meats! I did throw in some hash browns though. It was a nice filler. I rolled each burrito in foil to keep them warm. Then I placed them into a container (in this case a throw away foil one for easy clean up). We also took some coffee, which we may skip next time as many businesses already provide coffee for their employees.
Step four: Deliver.
We would arrive at the previously appointed time, drop off the burritos and coffee, and leave our tracts. Later that day we went back and picked up the coffee container and left over tracts.Ransom had several people talk to him about what the tract said and some were interested in visiting one of our meetings. Keep praying for the Lord to work in the hearts of those who received the breakfast.
Another day we made some mini muffins, put them in a ziplock bags, and taped our tracts to them. Then while school was letting out, we passed them out to hungry teens on their way home. What teen is going to pass up free food? Well, only a few girls. Needless to say the boys were delighted. (yes, I said delighted).Do you have any ideas for outreach? I'd love to hear them!
