Geaux Tailgating!!!

Fact: LSU fans are professional tailgaters

Fact: I am not

No matter. We had a blast tailgating during the LSU vs. Ohio State Championship game on January 7. There's nothing like making outreach fun. One "fun" aspect that is debatable is that Jon Young and I had to spend the night on the neutral ground on Poydras St. in order to secure a location. We turned our trusty canopy tent into the camping variety and slept on the ground like real men, real crazy men. It was worth it in the end. We were able to being visiting with our fellow tailgaters on Sunday night instead of having to wait until later on Monday. We spent most of our time Sunday night visiting with the social director of one of LSU's fraternities who too was spending the night on the street and happy not to be alone. The night passed slowly and we were often awakened by fans honking their car horns as they drove past. Thanks to a few cups of coffee the next morning, we were ready for a long day of meeting and visiting with the hundreds of fans in our immediate area. In fact it was not long before a charter bus pulled up and dropped off a load at a group of about 10-12 RVs set up next to us. Professionals remember. Our volunteers from LSU-A were a blessing and they fell right into the day's festivities. We visited, played football with kids, and did a little face painting. We did our best to show those around us the love of Christ and to bring them one step closer to a relationship with Him. We ended the night by distributing just over six cases of specially labeled bottled water and two boxes of evangelistic audio CDs. It was a great event and we learned a lot from the experience and look forward to presenting this to our churches as a valid means of engaging our sports community for Christ.