Church in the Avenue enjoyed helping out with Grand Avenue Festival in Ely over the weekend just gone. We joined up with Reflect Church to help out, to roll up our sleeves to wash the dishes, getting the hoover out but above all to talk to people about the love of Jesus.
Here are a few photos of the event.
We even had a barber who dished out free haircuts.
Why do we put on events like this?
As we mentioned earlier at events like this we like to help out and talk about the love of Jesus. What does the Bible say about serving and mucking in to help events like this. In Matthew it says to share with one another, here is an example of a scripture.
Matthew 5:42, NIV
“What should we do then?” the crowd asked. John answered, “Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same.”
What John is talking about is community. There is great unity in sharing what we have with the community, it brings communities together in love and that was exactly what the Grand Avenue Festival in Ely did, it brought us all together where we all served one another and had a great time showing the example Jesus set for us, to serve so that people who needed a day of enjoyment could have it.