On December 6th Alpha was given the opportunity to present at a town square in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. We showed up at the church that had invited us, Ebenezer E.C. Church. We put on paint, and then went to the place we were to perform at. We had one thing we weren’t looking forward to as the weather was really bad. There was plenty of rain and cold. So our original place to perform was changed, instead of performing under the gazebo we originally were, we performed under the roof of the train station.

We ran through More, and then began our first presentation. After our first presentation we did more stroll miming. We did more presentations, we did our presentation 3 times. Each time with a different audience, by our third performance we were freezing, but we were allowed to be in the train station to warm up. We didn’t have many people stay for the whole set of songs, but we did have many people go through. The last performance we had two little girls who were asking our AD’s questions constantly. After our last performance we went to see a large collection of Nativity scenes. Then we went back to the church and got our paint off and had supper and headed home. 

Alpha’s outreach at Bethany EC happened somewhat bizarrely, originally Alpha had a different outreach, but that outreach cancelled. So because Alpha hadn’t had an outreach yet we got the outreach Beta had. The outreach was on October 31st and was a safe Halloween alternative. We got to the church and put on paint. After we put on paint we spent time stroll miming with the kids, it was fun to spend time with the kids and just mess around while stroll miming. We then began our presentation after all the kids got there.

Our presentation, the best way to describe it was from our perspective it went terrible. We messed up several songs, however overall the message got across. We heard that several of the mom’s were crying because the mimes which surprised us as we thought it went terrible. That shows that what we think may be terrible, God can actually use for good.

After the presentation, we started doing facepainting, stroll miming, and a workshop for the kids. The kids loved everything, and their enthusiasm for the workshop was awesome. They were so eager to learn and actually they did awesome at the workshop. As the evening went on the kids began to leave and we took the paint off and headed home. Overall it was a fantastic outreach.