BWC 2010 Day of Outreach Results

From Kurt Richardson, our Day of Outreach coordinator: On Monday, January 4th, 2010, approximately 420 students and staff went out into the city, linking up with over 30 other people from 9 local Boston churches and 4 organizations and 1 apartment complex in the city.

Over the course of the afternoon over 75% of the students were privileged to engage someone in a conversation about the Gospel. All told, over 471 such conversations took place (as is our custom, the students went out in pairs). Probably twice as many more “spiritual conversations” took place which did not include a Gospel presentation.

Between 10-15 people indicated they entrusted their lives to Jesus Christ. Over 350 10lb boxes of food were distributed in conjunction with 4 of the churches and 2 of the organizations. One team of students shoveled snow in driveways on 11 streets in Dorchester (in the neighborhood of the Boston Project). Another group of 40 distributed granola bars, gum and church brochures to 5000 people above T stations in Cambridge. An estimated 1/10 of those people were personally invited to the church.