Each year we promote our Christmas event. With the student leader's input we choose a theme. We make it fun - a place where our student's friends will want to come and they can hear the Bible taught.

This year we once again did "Pillage." A scavenger hunt that required 40 vehicles filled with students to travel the northeast quadrant of Franklin County in search of various treasures - a discarded tire, a Brittany Spears' poster, something with a jingle bell on it, Lord of the Rings ticket stub, "what Ohio city has the zip code 44065?", something green that bounces, the letter "D"...and so on.

After we gathered as many of the things and information as we could, we headed back to Bldng X (my car beat the deadline by 4 minutes) and ate free pizza and subs. While Trav sorted through all the "treasures" and tallied the scores, Cindy told the students how God pursues each of us not wanting any to perish.

In past years we have done The Christmas Olympics (with events like the Fruit Cake Shot Put and the Santa Obstacle Course,) Man Hunt with disguised people wandering around crowded Columbus Landmarks,) and "Once upon a Mexican Christmas," with activities like the human Pinata hanging from the rafters. These outreach events have proven very successful for us.