As promised, I thought I would let you know about the festival we were involved in at the weekend............. Clark Street is one of the main North/South thoroughfares in Chicago and the synagogue where Fusion meets is just off it in a district called Rogers Park. Rogers Park is the most diverse neighbourhood in Chicago and a real melting pot - it couldn't be much more different to Wilmette where we are staying. The street festival is an annual event attracting thousands from the local community, particularly the Hispanic population. We repeated the formula Fusion had used last year and ran a stall offering free fun photos and also gave out free bottles of water. Basically, people dressed up in feather boas/funky hats/wigs, etc. and had their photo taken which we then printed out and gave to them with church details printed on the back. It was certainly one of the most popular stalls, not least because it was pretty much the only one just giving things away.
We had a team of young and not so young (!) people from St Joe's, Missouri who drove 8 hours to help us and the stall was run from 11am-11pm. Throughout this time we We handed out 2, 200 bottle of chilled water with flyers, used up more than 50 bags of ice to chill the water! We took, printed and distributed exactly 738 photographs and saw between 2,000 and 3,000 people come through our booth! It was lots of hard work, lots of fun and I thought just such a wonderful way to bless the local community and raise the profile of the church.
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