Douglasville/West Georgia
Team Blog Posts
Stranger Things Encounters
We returned to my favorite annual event in downtown Douglasville for evangelism: the Stranger Things block party. Douglasville was the filming location for a number of scenes in the first couple of seasons, including the police station and the…
Read More →After Concert Encounters
Ekpen and I have been going out every Wednesday night to the summer concert series. We have learned that it is best to engage concert goers after the concert, so we set up around 830 and catch them near the…
Read More →Kicking Off 2025 Outreach Season!
Since Douglasville does not hold any public events in the winter, after the Christmas parade, we have gone a few months without doing any outreaches (though I wish I had planned to set up a table at the Beer and…
Read More →Christmas Parade Outreach
The Douglasville Christmas parade is the biggest public event of the year in our community. We had enough experienced volunteers come to set up tables at two different locations (the parade route is about a mile long): one near the…
Read More →Stranger Things Redux
Ekpen joined me last night for an outreach at Douglasville's Stranger Things Block Party. A number of scenes in the hit Netflix show were filmed here, most famously the Hawkins Police Station. The event attracts fans from around the country. …
Read More →Closing out the Summer Outreach Season
Christine and I set up a table at the last Food Truck Mondays event of the summer. While the Food Trucks draw much fewer people than the Concerts, the conversations have always been richer because people are more willing to…
Read More →Proclaiming True Freedom on Independence Day
Our city hosts an annual 4th of July parade, followed by a festival. July 4th is a fitting occasion to proclaim the true freedom Christ brings from sin and the fear of death! This was the first year the festival…
Read More →First Outreach at West Georgia Technical College
We did our first outreach at West Georgia Techincal College last week, hoping to reach students and families who were coming for a social event for new students. WGTC, one of seven campuses in a regional network, is the only…
Read More →Summer Concert Outreach Discovery
A team went out last Wednesday to reach out to people going to the first weekly summer concert at the Douglasville amphitheater. Christine and Pat joined me before the concert; Gertrude, who is new to St. Theresa's, joined me afterwards. …
Read More →First Douglasville Team Outreach!
We did our first outreach Monday night at the Food Truck event in downtown Douglasville. Henry Leiva and Lucy Erozo joined me. Food trucks were lined up on Church Street. We found a prime spot on the sidewalk where we…
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