Hunters Become Target Of Church’s Outreach
By Mike Reber
January 2010
Pheasant hunters became the targets as Christ’s love was shared on Friday, Nov. 13, at the rest area 20 miles west of Topeka on Interstate 70.
Our church family was blessed to be a blessing to the many travelers on this highway.
We were there to freely give a loving message and a little sustenance in the name of the Lord.
Our fourth Pheasant Hunters Outreach was a great success as hundreds of travelers witnessed Christians serving people they did not know. This event is held the day before the opening of Kansas pheasant season.
Dozens of the traveling hunters were looking for us, remembering how we had served them in past years. Through some of them, we discovered that last year the Salina newspaper wrote an article about our outreach.
But we didn’t just serve the pheasant hunters. There was the busload of FFA students headed to Kansas State University in Manhattan and the couple on their way home from a hospital in St. Louis, where the husband had been recuperating for several weeks after a quadruple heart bypass surgery, among many others.
The state and federal highway folks would not allow us to hand out literature of our own or put up a sign identifying our church or cause.
I wonder if God planned that. He certainly has shown us how that can be used for good — free gifts from God, no hooks and no performance required. The price has been paid.
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