| Event:
City Kids Festival, Saturday, August 27th
Julliard Park, Santa Rosa 10 am – 5 pm
Sponsored by: Redwood Gospel Mission and the United Churches
of
Sonoma County (one church, many congregations)
Purpose: Share the love of Christ with
live music, gospel presentations,
games, bounce houses, puppets and food. To provide backpacks
filled with school supplies, school clothing, and haircuts
to 1800 low income children entering K – 8th grade.
This is How Gods
Glory came to Julliard Park
In many parts of the Bible, we can
see God’s love and heart for children. In Mark
10:16 we see Jesus taking the children in His arms and
blessing them and that is exactly what the City of Santa
Rosa allow through the United Church's army of volunteers
on August 27 2005 at the City Kids Festival in Juliard
Park.
Aproximately 2300 children and families
that came were blessed in a variety of ways. There was
face painting, jump houses, games, temporary tattoos
live music, a dunk tank, free food, snow cones, ice
cream, and petting zoo animals.
For those families that pre-registered
through the Redwood Gospel Mission, there was back-packs
full of school supplies and often other goodies. There
were approximately 2000 that were pre-registered and
hundreds of others who came that were able to receive
a backpack.
 Before
receiving their backpack, each child had to visit the
Gospel beads bracelet tent. In this tent there were
English and Spanish speaking volunteers who would hand
each child a bracelet containing 6 colored beads each
representing a different aspect of the Gospel and would
share the Bible story with the children and often their
parents too.
Hundred’s of the children and
parents made a decision to put their faith in Jesus
Christ and live under God’s love and forgiveness
for them. Amen!
There was such a spirit of joy, generosity
and love that came through the community that day. I
know that the many prayers that were prayed through
the local bodies, Redwood Gospel Mission and City Reach
Prayer made a significant difference in road for God’s
spirit of love to be so richly evident that day. We
continue to pray for the children of our city, that
all will have the opportunity and privilege to hear,
respond to and experience the love of Christ.
To volunteer or for more information:
Call 707-578-1830 x 14
Special Thanks to Christelle Eddy
for this story.
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