Free Coffee and Lots of Sugar

We enjoyed our first Halloween trick-or-treating in the our neighborhood.  I did think about our years in the Brewers Glynn neighborhood in Wake Forest and had a knot in my throat thinking about my friend Lana. We would work together... or rather she would help my kids with all the missing costume pieces. In my flurry of activity yesterday curling hair and locating things I thought about her and the fun memories we had sitting around a fire pit sharing stories after the kids went trick-or-treating in the neighborhood.
This year, rather than our traditional s'mores afterward, we decided to give out free coffee to the adults as the kiddos came by to get candy. It was nice to have a few meaningful conversations with people as they fixed their coffee.
Here are a few pictures from the evening. ( I didn't get any pictures of Breanna, she left early with friends to hang out and spend time with them.)

The kiddos are ready to roll....

A cowgirl, a princess and a ninja.

All set up and ready as we wonder...are we going to have any kids in this neighborhood out trick-or-treating?? Did we make too much coffee?

Yep! They came. Swarms of people and not enough hands to keep up until Lesa and Brennan showed up!  

5 bags of candy and 6 pots of coffee.

Coffee was a huge hit, we recognized a few familiar faces from the backpack event and prayer walking and we met some new folks too.

And look who we ran into out on the street, the Shays! Its so good to have the Shay boys roaming the neighborhood with our kids

We love our community and neighborhood.  We do all we can to take advantage of the community events in order to meet people and build relationships.  Last night was a ton of fun and we had the chance to have some great conversations, meet new people and deepen existing relationships.  Giving out coffee was a great opportunity for conversation.  Some people were puzzled that anyone would do something like that while others were excited and jumped right in.  We are looking forward to see how The Lord will use a simple cup of coffee and a few pieces of candy to allow us to share His truth with our neighbors.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. ³¹ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”

Mark 12:30-31