Planting Perils: Part 2

Sometimes, in your quest to do the right thing in a new Church, you end up stepping on people's toes.

Here is an instance when we did just that with our "Church Plant" in West Sacramento:

Every year the City put on a parade for something or the other. Loads of families came out to stand in the sun and watch the floats go by. We thought it would be cool if we handed out drinks, for free, to people watching the fair. Do the old God loves you and so do we at SouthPort Church.

Well, it went great! People at the parade loved it and it was a great time. The only people that didn't really like it were the people from the PTA at the local Elementary. As it turns out, they were selling drinks just down the block from where we were. I guess their business was somewhat less than booming that day.

We really did try hard to make a good impression on the community and community groups, like the PTA. Maybe we should have checked things out a little more.