Top 10 reasons..

...to join your church's visitation/outreach efforts. I had the pleasure this weekend of helping Bible Baptist Church of Elk River, MN in canvassing efforts to let that community know about this new work. Here is a lighthearted list of reasons to join that--apart from saving souls.

1. Your doctor told you to take nice long walks, but your wife frittered away the greens fee on frivolities like groceries.

2. Your doctor told you to take nice long walks, but your husband frittered away the greens fee at Home Depot.

3. That green roofed building at exit 207.

4. You might find a nice new restaurant while canvassing. (Daddy-O's diner downtown, to be specific)

5. You might find a nice butcher shop while canvassing.

6. Nursery workers won't get their "diaper changing fix" (oops, "baby fix") if we don't reach out to new families.

7. More people in the pews means lower heating bills in the winter.

8. You memorized the Saturday morning cartoons decades ago, and don't want your children to do the same.

9. Wonderful coffee and scones before setting out. The pastor's belt isn't just a fence on a graveyard for fried chicken, but rather for his wife's cooking too!

10. Finally a serious one; if you want a heart for people, there is no substitute for taking a walk through the neighborhoods where they live and work.