For the past eight years we have finished our year by going door-to-door in our neighborhood.  We give our neighbors a gospel track and a loaf of banana bread.  We wish them Happy New Year. Historically New Years is more important in the culture than Christmas.  That is why we choose to give gifts at this time.  Banana bread is not in their culture, but they quickly figure out that it is yummy. While they love the bread, they politely put up with our tracks.  Occasionally we stumble across a child of God.  It's a changing audience.  There are many small (as in minuscule) studio apartments interspersed with big houses like ours.  Studio apartment people tend to move frequently.  

This year things were different.  For the first time ever we saw an interest in spiritual things at several houses.  One dad told us he was going to read the track we gave him.  Said he had read the one we gave him last year.  Even read the one we gave his kids when they showed up at Shiloh on New Years Day.  He had questions, but didn't have the time to ask them right now.  We invited him to come to our house any time with his questions.  One lady invited us into her home and had us pray for her.  

We end 2016 encouraged to see that our little year end evangelistic outreach is starting to produce small results.  And we step into 2017 excited about all the possibilities that await us.