Yesterday was the annual Conifer Christmas Parade, and once again our church built a float and participated in the event. You had to be a real mountain person to join in the fun, because it was only 15º and snowing the whole time. Near the end of the parade one of our brave church members said to me, "I think my hands would be freezing. . . if I could feel them!" But it was all worthwhile, and we ended up winning first prize for the best float for the second straight year - go Journey Church! As we passed by the judges table the announcer said, "Wow, looks like the whole Journey Church came out for the parade today!" Actually, we had about 70-100 brave souls who walked the route with us, but that's out of some 500 who attend every Sunday. But I get his point. We handed out hundreds of flyers for our Christmas Eve service, and I could swear that we had 20 or 30 visitors at church yesterday. The theme for the parade was "Western", so we decided to build a giant stick horse, with the head being the
Denver Broncos logo. The pole was around 30 feet long and was propped up on two tree trunks. Someone from church sewed a giant Santa hat for the big horse head that added the final touch. Then we cut and painted 100 smaller sticks and attached miniature Broncos heads for each church member to carry. We ended up looking like a herd of Broncos fans - which of course we are . The sign on the side of the float said, "Journey Church: 101 Horse Power". Of course, there was nothing even remotely religious about our float, which was intentional. We weren't out to look religious - we just wanted to have fun and win the prize! It was kind of like a giant Broncos Trojan Horse: we don't want people to see us coming. We want to win them over with love and a sense of community before they even realize that they're part of a local church.Even though it was bitterly cold we all had a great time, made some new friends and showed Conifer that we can still build a Kick-Ass float!
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