Hitting the Street in High Heat

I'm sorry for sporadic updates, but I feared that our hotel wifi connection was sketchy, so please accept these posts as somewhat of a recap of our week.

Our SCLA group was teamed-up with a group from Arizona Lutheran Academy (pictured) and we worked together to knock on doors over the course of 6 sessions during the week, including Monday afternoon, Tuesday morning and afternoon, Thursday morning and afternoon, and Friday morning. We knocked on doors in the mornings from 10:00 until noon and again after lunch, from about 1:30-5:00 PM. The lunches and dinners were catered for us and every meal was amazing! We burned a lot of calories but likely replaced them (plus some???)

Not a lot of photos were taken while we were out as it was hard work, requiring mental focus on where we were and what we were doing. The photos here were some friendly faces I ran across who were willing to take a picture with me. The four maps that I pieced together give an idea of the number of streets and houses our SCLA/ALA team covered. We typically had 8 pairs going out in neighborhoods that ranged from mobile home parks to apartments, condos, duplexes, and single-family homes of all sorts and sizes. Results of knocking on doors included no answers, open doors with the curt "not interested", and then the much-appreciated conversations that could vary in length from 5 minutes to over an hour! Dogs were plentiful as well as Ring camera doorbells and "No Solicitation" signs. None of these deterred us because we weren't selling anything, and most people didn't mind our knock. One additional daily challenge was the heat, with temperatures in the afternoon reaching close to 90 degrees each day! But it was a DRY heat:) 

Through the week it was clear that God was providing us with witnessing opportunities and the physical stamina and spiritual courage to make an impact, we pray, for eternity!