The party in the park was a great success. Even though I had hoped for a few more people from the community we still were successful in meeting 5 new families. I found out that there were some individuals in the neighborhood that were working against us and our supposed “solicitation” which may have hurt us some. Here is the definition of solicit:

so•lic•it
v. so•lic•it•ed, so•lic•it•ing, so•lic•its

1. To seek to obtain by persuasion, entreaty, or formal application: a candidate who solicited votes among the factory workers.
2. To petition persistently; importune: solicited the neighbors for donations.
3. To entice or incite to evil or illegal action.
4. To approach or accost (a person) with an offer of sexual services.

Well we may have fell under definition #2 by inviting 240 families but I think a solid argument against that would be actually asking for something, which we were not. Regardless we had one individual actually removing them from the side of mailboxes. I found out this information because one lady who came actually found out about the party because she saw a stack of them in her friend’s house. I guess if that individual was a real friend they wouldn’t have taken an invitation to a FREE party off her mailbox.

So our church attendees could find us I hung a banner in the park with our name on it. Apparently this also fell under solicitation because I was threatened with the option of taking it down or having the cops called. In this case I wish that the individual making this threat would have had the guts to approach me in lieu of troubling the poor gate attendant. I would have enjoyed offering them some free food for stopping by. Since the guard had to deal with that individual we delivered him a plate of food for his trouble. He was appreciative but I am sure was not enough for having to deal with what I assume to be a very pleasant individual.

It is a good thing that we have a law student coming to our church. I need him to finish as quickly as possible so that he can get me out of some future binds that I am sure to get into. By the way he is getting ready to take an exam in a few minutes so I want him to know that we are praying for him.