Let's Get Proactive Folks!

I hate going to the mall! I hardly ever do it. To me it's like wading in a dirty pool. You find all kinds of scum there and most of the time (at least for me) it's not a refreshing experience. However,due to my daughter's birthday gift (a gift card from her oldest sibling to spend at the mall) I made an exception today.

The first thing that caught my eye when I entered, was a large poster placed in full view for the general public to see. It invited everyone to get their flu shots, you guessed it....right here at the mall!
Seems the Simon's Company is in cohoots with some health care management system and they want to make sure you're all good and 'safe' when flu season gets here. How nice of them!

Well, you know how I feel about foreign substances being injected into innocent folks' bodies. I had to warn somebody in any way I could so I scrambled for my wallet card carrier and found Wendy Callahan's card with her website on it:Vaccine information. She is a valiant young woman who is very active in the community and is trying to give people the true information about the dangers of vaccinations. I stuck it inside the frame of the poster hoping it would be found by an open-minded, would-be victim. Unfortunately, it was the last card I had and the mall had many such posters.
Then, I had a brainstorm!.....I quickly pulled out our churches' business cards, turned them over and began to feverishly write on the back of each one:
Thimerisol is a POISON! It is a mercury derivitive.
It causes central nervous system damage . DO NOT TAKE THE SHOT!
My next stop was the dollar store where I bought a roll of scotch tape and proceeded to tape a card to every poster I could find.
Maybe someone will read them. Maybe someone will question the safety of these vaccines. Maybe someone will actually decide not to ever get a shot again!

Let me tell you. I have found my motorized conveyance to be a wonderful tool for "alternative propaganda". Everyone that is stuck behind me has to read my "U.S. Constitution All Rights Reserved "sticker, my "Christian Children Need a Christian Education" sticker and the real conversation grabber "Public Schools Harm Children" sign in the rear window.

Upon leaving the store, a woman walked up to me in the parking lot and asked me, "How do I do it? How can I get my children out of the public schools?" She saw my sign and said "Yes...that's true but how do I do it? How do I get my kids out?" She shared with me her story of how her daughter was accosted by some other children in the bus who had tried to hurt her while the driver ignored it all and how her son was now suspended because he came to his sister's aid. She was fed up and wanted her children out! I was able to give her some information and I left there feeling that my sign did some good!

See.... you don't need to always have a pulpit and a bullhorn. You don't always have to beat people over the head and argue. Sometimes, the most subtle ways of reaching out are the most effective.

Let me give you one more example of an easy, family activity that can also impact people spiritually:
Mom, when you go to the store with your children, fill up your purse with assorted Bible tracts. My personal favorites are the Chick Tracts because of the eye-catching artwork and simple delivery. Tell your children that you are going to play a game. They have to try to put as many tracts out as possible before you leave the store. Have them insert them into beer cases, place them inside of magazines in the magazine racks, accidentally drop them into unsuspecting passers-by shopping carts and leave a couple in the bathrooms. The little girls LOVE IT! They can be sneaky and let people know about Jesus at the same time. Sometimes, people will be more apt to read a tract if it isn't handed to them but they just sort of 'discover' it.

My point is this:

BE PROACTIVE.
Find ways to reach the uninformed, the lost, the would-be victims in your part of the world. If you reach even one person it's worth it.