On November 3rd, the evangelism team of Brett, Joel, Seth, Mike, and I went to the Southdown Arts and Crafts show in Houma, Louisiana.
To enter the show, you have to have homemade arts and crafts, or antiques. Nobody has antiques as old as the stuff we brought.
We paid the entrance fee to set up a booth, and we were showing off all of our dinosaur fossil collection for the people to see, touch and hold in their hands. We were there for educational purposes only. Nothing to sell, but we did have some giveaways.
Pull a white stone from the bag and get a piece of coprolite (dinosaur poop). Pull a green stone and get a fish fossil. We gave away about 10 pieces of poop and three fish fossils. One little girl was thrilled to have received a fish fossil.
We were teaching Creation Science vs Evolution. At times we had three presentations going at the same time. We were utilizing a bait-and-switch technique. Get the kids in the booth by showing the dinosaur stuff, and teach the parents and teenagers about Creation Science.
We laughed and laughed when a little three-year-old boy told his mom that he had to potty. He told her a second time and then dropped his pants and peed in the middle of the booth. I guess he wasn’t kidding.
We estimated that we had approximately 1,100 people come through our booth in an eight-hour period. That is how many gospel tracts we gave away, mostly to people that came through the booth. We even had a line of people waiting to come in.
Toward the end of the day, a family of six came in. Two parents and four children. I gave them the tour, and then the kids lost interest, right after the mom and one of the children won their very own piece of poop.
The father lingered on, and I asked him to read the back of the dinosaur tract. He said that he already did, and then stayed an additional fifteen minutes so I could share the gospel of Jesus Christ with him.
It was a great day.