Avocado Festival Results- This Side of Heaven!



It was a busy day at the GRN booth at the Avocado Festival

Josh handing out a Spanish Words of Life with a Smile!



Our Dunamix DC Dance Team performed on stage at the festival

 

We've lived in Temecula for 20 years now and just learned about the Avocado Festival in Fallbrook.  Upon first hearing about it I (Stacy) was certain it had to be a small town festival with low attendance.  Wow, was I wrong!  The festival was miles long and was said to have been attended by 100,000 people!  Our team of 45, yes 45 (throughout the day), did an amazing job of putting CDs into the hands of those who were vendors and those walking by our booth. 

This year, our DC team has a group of dancers from Dunamix Dance Project joining us.  Their goal is to share Christ with others through worshipful dance and testimonies.  After performing, a woman at the festival came up to our booth to compliment the girls.  She said she was so impressed with what they shared about the Lord, how they presented themselves so modestly and how while dancing it truly looked like they were worshiping Christ.  What a blessing to hear that!  We can't wait to see what the Lord is going to do with them in DC.

The entire team worked diligently at the booth giving out CDs to the constant stream of visitors.  We had many believers come to thank us for sharing with others and challenge them to somehow do the same.  We were so busy that we actually ran out of Spanish CDs two hours before the event ended!
So, thank you to all who participated and prayed... here are the results that we get to see on this side of heaven....

721 CDs were given out (another 200 could have easily been given if we didn't run out)
47 languages were given (even Icelandic!)
45 volunteers and staff participated
All three of these categories were 1 day record totals!