When planting a church on Chicago's North Shore, we hosted a variety of short-term mission teams who joined us in a range of outreach efforts, all with a Gospel witness -- from door-to-door surveys to concerts in the park to bottled water handouts along pedestrian and bike paths.
One approach we used repeatedly involved cash handouts to the volunteers. We'd give them $5 or $10 and send them into the community to buy things and to strike up spiritual conversations in the process. They wouldn't be interrupting business but, rather, piggybacking on it.
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