At the health fair

Me and Kember holding tracts and wearing our blood drive stickers.

Today, my family met my grandparents and our great aunt and uncle at the annual health fair in the middle of the Palatka mall. Kember and I brought some tracts in with us, intending to hand out a few. When we got inside, we saw that the health screening booths and informational tables were set up in the center of the mall, and that all the booths were giving away free things. So we decided to give some free things away too. While Granny, Mama, and Aunt Joyce had screenings, Kember and I found a spot to stand between two information tables. As people walked by, we extended tracts to them, asking “Did you get one of these?” The people received the tracts as if they were health literature pertaining to the fair! We had barely begun distributing when a lady from the blood mobile stopped and gave us big, bright green stickers that said “Blood drive today!” We wore the stickers proudly, and thought they made us really look official, like part of the fair. At least two people replied, “Oh, I didn’t give blood today,” eying our sticker worriedly. We just smiled and said “That’s OK,” insisting that they take a tract.

After a while, we caught up with Papa and Uncle Clinton. Kameron was with them, and his eyes were shining as he showed us his bulging plastic bag full of items he’d collected from the tables. “Uncle Clinton showed me some really great free stuff!” he exclaimed. So with Uncle Clinton’s help (and persuasion), we girls got bags and they showed us where the “really great free stuff” was. (Personally, the best score was the free muffin and coffee table!) Later, we had our cholesterol checked. After the painful prick in the finger, Kember and I made a mutual agreement not to have any more screenings. Besides, both of our cholesterol levels were under control. With throbbing fingers, we took our posts in another part of the mall to hand out some more tracts. When we got to the car, we figured up the amount of tracts we gave out. It was about 150. We pray that the Lord will grow the seeds that were planted, and that people will be saved!