it's not about selling pumpkins

each year, the youth from our church (with lots of help from adult members) puts on a pumpkin patch. each day people volunteer to work the patch and help sell as many pumpkins as possible. all of the money goes to support our youth's mission work locally and abroad. the fact that the youth does enough mission work to actually need additional funding is stunning in and of itself. but what is even more impressive is that God uses that pumpkin patch not just to help fund work done is His name, but turns even the fundraiser itself into a venue that sheds His love on the community. God never ceases to amaze me with His creativity in spreading love. below is from youth's dad who has poured his heart and sweat into this year's pumpkin patch. pretty neat!

it's not about selling pumpkins. it's about outreach and community and mostly family.  it's providing an activity for young families to slow down at the end of the day. it's mom and dad gathering the children and experiencing togetherness with each other in God's fall of the year running, taking pictures and maybe picking out a pumpkin as a family for home. it's about a peaceful place in the heart of mobile and hopefully getting closer to God.  it's about revival, of self, of family, of midtown, of mobile.