Luke 10

"2 Then He said to them, “The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest. "



I don't know about how you feel, but somehow this messages is repeating itself in many different forms. That is, WE MUST PREACH! I'm not sure what has been tried in Germany as far as outreach efforts. However, I can share with you some of the ones that churches in other areas have tried. I can also tell you that not all of them are successful. However, we must remember that it is God who draws the people, and we just do our part. The hardest part I feel after having participated in some of the outreach efforts is not to be discouraged after you see no results of people coming to believe. The easiest to do after seeing no results is to give up, and to give up we had. But that does not excuse us from the mission that Jesus Christ gave us, "to preach to the end of the earth". I think once we separate the two tasks, we are able to keep going. 1) Remember that it is our task to preach no matter the outcome. 2) Remember that it is up to God to bring people and not us. It would be nice to start something up in Heidelberg so that we can all work on this task together as a group.

Some of the outreach efforts done in other churchs:
London: Each Sunday they went out and knocked on people's doors with flyers to pass out
Dallas: Went once a month to nursing homes and sang hymns to the elderly people, fed the homeless every Sunday, put out Freizeit flyers on people's doors near church, Evangelical event geared towards our friends (plays, poems, story telling, games, short message, etc...)
Pacifica: Open House at Church (Praise music, sing along, message, light hearted program)
Los Angeles area: Hosanna Outreach (light hearted program)
Taiwan: Gospel Tea events, hospital visitation, Hymnal evengelism, Carnival/Hymnal evangelism