Lighting the Night

Someone brought up an interesting concept of Halloween that I am still pondering on..

Her post:

"The Night of Halloween"

'Twas the night of Halloween

And all through the town

All the Christians were hiding 

There were none to be found

Their porch lights were off

Their doors tightly locked

And they simply ignored it

If a child came and knocked

They claimed to be standing 

Against evil that night

Yet their decision to hide

Had caused Satan no fright

It was more like a gift 

That they let him run free

Instead of shining out Jesus

For the whole world to see

The children still came home

With bags full of treats 

Yet none could have said 

That his soul had been reached

For on that night that was darkest

The light hid away

Allowing old Satan 

To have his own way

And as I end this I wonder

What would Jesus have done?

When confronted with darkness 

Would he too have run?

Don't dare to believe it

My Christ would not fear

For when Satan came calling 

He would say I AM HERE!

-Written by Pastor Aaron Brant.

This is a copy paste of something one of our pastors wrote, and the reason why we "light the night"

This was written by Aaron Brant.

He was the secondary pastor and recently got his own head pastorship, at Barron Foursquare. 

We don't go out with candles and things, we set up on our porch with lights (Christmas lights on the porch) and some years we've handed out chili along with candy wrapped in a tract with church info, some years we've handed out cocoa/coffee, covid years it was just the candy.

It has such an impact on the community, that for five years after our pastors moved houses people still stopped by asking if this is where the chili is. 

Our goal is to be a light for Jesus, share the gospel and build relationships with the community, so that they want to come visit us and hear the gospel.

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What do you guys think? Some people say it's better than hiding in the basement.