In the Outside Pocket

I narrowed the selection down to four or so purses. The other purses were cuter, but I picked the purse with the outside pockets.

I check and re-stock my purse with tracts before I go out, or better yet, re-stock it when I come back home. I do not like missing the right tracts when I am out or digging inside my purse trying to find the tracts I do have. I keep a selection of tracts in a basket by the front door. You can keep your supply of tracts in your car’s glove compartment, especially if you don’t have a purse or something to carry tracts in.

My new purse has two outside pockets. One with, and one without, a zipper. I decided I like the zippered pocket to keep my supply of tracts. Recently, though, I have started putting the specific tract(s) I want to use for a witnessing situation in the unzippered pocket. When my cashier is finishing my purchase and we are chatting, I move the tract I want to use to the unzippered pocket, so when the moment comes to offer the tract, I can pull it out easily.

I don’t like putting tracts in pants pockets because they can get beat-up looking. I throw out tracts that are torn or damaged.

How do you like to carry tracts when you are out?

What I Keep in My Purse

The clerk watched me rummaging through my purse. I had already paid and should have been walking away. I was pawing through more than seven varieties of tracts trying to find the right one. The minute this took to do was agonizingly long.

This is awkward, I thought, as I finally handed her a little green booklet. I went home and removed some of the tracts. (Read more of this story.)

The basic booklets I keep with me are also different colors and, therefore, easy to identify and pull out.

I have:
green Would You Like To Know God Personally,
blue Satisfied? (The Holy Spirit booklet),
cream/green Beginning Your Journey of Significance (new Four Laws for women),
cream/purple Living a Life of Significance? (new Holy Spirit booklet for women),
yellow The Four Laws in Spanish, and
black The Passage.

I use the green and blue booklets because I think the question on the cover would draw the person in to read the tract. Also, several times when I used to have the original yellow English Four Spiritual Laws in my purse, I would discover in the checkout line that all my booklets were in Spanish! However, God can use that situation, too!

In 2007, I also started carrying the Who is He? mini-CD for giving to twenty-something guys and for giving to internationals since the mini-CD presents the Gospel in more than thirty languages. Check out the content of this powerful tool. (An entire English Bible, apologetic books, and more).

Another tract I have added recently is 4 Laws – Discovering God in Chinese Characters. This tract explains how to know Jesus by explaining the etymological roots of Chinese characters. The message of salvation found in Genesis is revealed in these characters.

Read real-life stories about sharing tracts with the people you meet.

World Series and More

If you or your friends love baseball, you might be interested in Reversing the Curse, with stories from the Red Sox during their comeback in the 2004 season when they won the World Series. You can also order a companion DVD on the site.

You can find more than baseball on sports DVDs from Athletes in Action, Campus Crusade for Christ’s sports ministry. If your friends like soccer, football, basketball, and more, they will enjoy these DVDs with stories from accomplished men and women athletes. These DVDs are also available in other languages and in PAL versions.

Athletes in Action is also offering some great booklets with changed-life stories from athletes. These could work for almost any age group at any time of the year.

You can give any of these items as gifts or use them in an outreach to sporting events and clubs.

PS: Click here to find more stories and ideas about reaching the sports fans in your life.

The Trick-or-Treaters

Every year, I set up a little table by the door with a bowl of candy and stacks of tracts. And then I wait.

We are on a dead-end street so we never know if we will have many or a few trick-or-treaters come to our door.

Some tracts that I use are:
In Search of the Greatest Treasure,
Have You Heard of the Four Fantastic Facts and
the Good News Comic Book and Glove
which can be found at Campus Crusade’s online store.

This year, the store is offering Scripture candy with 75 tracts of your choice.

If teenagers or adults are also at your door, you may want to have
Connecting with God
What You See is NOT All You Get
Who is He? Mini CD

You can find these at the online store as well.

I just learned that Athletes in Action is also offering some great booklets with changed-life stories from athletes. These could work for almost any age group at any time of the year, but are a great idea for giving out at Halloween.

Click here for a real-life story about witnessing on Halloween.