Clown Ministry Call for Help!

Calling for HELP!!

I started witnessing in 1962 while I was in Bible School in Buffalo, New York. We witnessed at skating rinks, nursing homes and prisons. Later I witnessed in festivals here in the US and at the Communist Festival in Berlin, East Germany. We were giving it our best.

In 1976 at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, Illinois, I saw something that helped changed the way I did witnessing. I was being harassed by a cult group and not having much success with regular people. Then I saw a group of "clowns" putting on a drama. I noticed that people loved the clowns and were attentive to their "message."

When I got home from the fair, I met with my friend, Fred Starkweather, to see if he could make some clown suits. In 1977, we went to the Mardi Gras in New Orleans with a "new" way of witnessing. I had a clown trainer named Rick Heneberry from Decatur, Illinois come to our Men's Retreat and teach us some basic clown skits with salvation messages. We went to parades and the people along the parade routes loved the clowns. Thus the clown ministry of No Greater Love was born.

As the years passed, many of us had clown suits made. We have continued to collect clown suits and get wigs for the clowns. Every year, during the off season, we have a group of people mend the clown suits that need mending. However, many of our suits are just too old and worn out to mend. We have about 100 suits, but most of them need to be replaced.

It costs between $40 and $60 to make a suit. Here is what we need:

1. People who will make some suits.

2. People who will buy material for the suits.

3. People who will donate money for suits and wigs.

Clowning is the best method we have ever used to help men get started being effective witnesses for the Lord. Pray about being a part of getting our clown ministry back up to par.

Let us hear from you soon (you can contact our main office at the NGL website: http://www.nogreaterlove.org) so we can use this summer to get us back on track.
Thanks for your help.



Love ya's,
Fred

1 Corinthians 3:6, "I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase."