Their Point Of View

It's Halloween weekend and my wife had to work so my mom, the kids, and I went to a church that was having a Halloween alternative. Earlier this afternoon I got on the Internet and found a local church that was having a “fall fair” and said lets go to this one. No one recommended this one to me and it wasn't one I had heard great things about. It was a total shot in the dark. I figured it can’t be that bad can it?

I must be honest with you I was extremely nervous. I have pretty much spent my entire life going to these kind of events at the same church or worked at the church that was holding the event. So tonight was a first for me.

It was a really good experience to go to an event and not know a single person. I got to live out an experience that we expect total strangers to do by showing up to our thing.

When I look back it’s actually sad because the whole time we were there not one person introduced themselves to us and even said hi, except for the registration lady but you know she doesn't count. I couldn't even tell you who the lead pastor was. Did our kids have fun? Sure, but their only four and three, going to the grocery store is exciting for them.

It was nice to be the outsider for a change.