Gospel For Scotland Edinburgh Outreach
Stephen Grant
From Monday 14th to Friday 18th August we will be focusing our effort around the main tourist sites in Edinburgh. Our exercise is to distribute postcards with an image of Edinburgh and gospel text around the Royal mile, Princess Street, Holyrood Palace, Princess Gardens and other sites.
There will then be some down time until the crowds head up the Royal Mile for the Tattoo commencing at 9pm. Obviously, we would like to reach as many people as we can with the postcards. The focus however will be when the Tattoo ends. We have ordered 30,000 specially designed canvas shopping bags.
These are blue and white with a map of Scotland with John 3v16 on both sides and the website details and will be packed with a postcard.
We cannot distribute these before the show due to all bags being searched and the potential security risk, however as people leave, they need to all exit by the same exit and we will be able to reach many people with the bags. As you can imagine we will need to have a large number of 2-3 man teams scattered all around the Castle area in order to distribute as many as we can. It will be after 11pm before we will be finished each evening, so please bear that in mind if you plan to get involved.
Everything distributed will be pointing to www.gospelforscotland.com. This will be specifically designed for the work and will feature images of Edinburgh and the surrounding area. We have also had a professionally shot video of the city and sites with a gospel message voiceover. This has been done in a variety of European and worldwide languages to bring the gospel to all.
We are looking to run the days to the following programme:
2.30 – Meet at Gorgie Gospel Hall for briefing and prayer
3.00 – Team 1 into the Edinburgh for postcard distribution
5.30 – Dinner. Can bring food back to hall or can make own arrangement.
7.00 – Prayer and briefing of team 2
7.30 – Postcard and bag distribution
11.00 – End
The aim of our exercise is to distribute as many bags and postcards as we can over the week and to mobilise and exercise believers young and old in the Gospel.
If you are interested in being involved in any of this work please feel free to contact us.
Graeme Paterson – gjpaterson@btinternet.com, 07721 052007
Stephen Grant - stephenpaulgrant@gmail.com , 07528 540477