On Saturday, January 30th, The Harlem Globetrotters will have two performances in Dallas at the American Airlines Center. My sons and I went to this event last year and handed out a lot of tracts. It is a very family friendly environment with lots of kids. This year there are two shows. One at 11AM and the other at 2:30 PM. The plan is to do an outreach between the two performances. This way we will catch those that are leaving the first show and those that are coming to the second show. The video below shows my sons handing out tracts at last years Harlem Globetrotters event.
My suggestion is to park in the West End. There is a parking lot on the west side of Houston St where you can park all day for $2. The address is around 400 N Houston and is marked as location A on the map. Once you park, walk up to Victory Plaza on the south side of the American Airlines Center. The walk is half a mile to the corner of Houston and Olive. Let’s meet there at noon. Assuming that each show is about two hours, then people should start coming out of the first show shortly after that.
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Basically, all of the sidewalks that surround the American Airlines Center are good spots to hand out tracts. Three of the best spots we have found are marked as B, C and D on the map. We open air preached with amplification at point C in December from the NE corner of that intersection. We have had many great one on one conversations with people near the box office located near point D. And we have had great tract distribution near point B and even on the SE corner of that same intersection in the past. You will want to avoid handing out tracts while inside of the Victory Plaza area, however, it should be okay to engage people in one on one conversations there.
We can engaged in the following types of witnessing:
- Open Air Preaching
- Project Ezra – Be praying about which chapter(s) from List 5 to read. This includes any chapters from Job, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon. Of course you are free to read any other chapters of the Bible that you like as well.
- One on One conversations
- Tract distribution – bring whatever family friendly and kid friendly tracts you have. Million Dollar Bills should be especially popular.
With the second show starting at 2:30, let’s wrap up and meet back at point B (Olive and Houston) at 3PM. We can have some prayer and fellowship there and then head home.
Please let me know if we should be looking for you to join us on Saturday.
