Buckets of Love

Here at Holmsted we are continually looking for ways to be able to express something of God to the people we meet when we go out. We often spend time asking God what he wants to say to people and how he wants us to express this.

So this is what Christy did with a few others from here at Holmsted and they felt God say to them ‘Buckets of Love’. What they did was to fill buckets with statements of truth, such as ‘you are wonderfully made’, ‘You are precious and honoured’ etc.

We went to Brighton and set ourselves up on the seafront close to the pier and had a giant red heart to help get peoples attention and we also had a guitar so we could have live music going on as well. We spent the afternoon engaging people as they passed by giving out these statements. We had a great range of responses from people politely declining to people taking and saying thanks, to people stopping to talk for a while about what was written on the paper. We had a lot of fun; we even had a guy come and dance with us after taking and reading one of the notes.

 

The conversations we had with people ranged from a thank you to some significant conversations about who God is. I know we brightened up a number of people’s days as people left smiling. I really like the gentleness of God to take truth and use it to touch who someone is deep down. It certainly encourages me every time I get to be a part of this.