Saturday I presented a KidzMatter seminar in Tampa Florida. I met 2 ladies from LifePoint Church. They told me that they read about doing a Pickle Sunday in K! Magazine and gave it a try. Here’s what Renee had to say:

Pickles, Pickles Everywhere! In a recent issue of K! Magazine Keith Coast dared us to have a Pickle Day. Well, I can never take a dare lying down so the next week our church ordered three 5 gallon buckets of pickles. As soon as they entered the building the whole staff could not get their minds off of Pickles. To promote Pickle Day we made small post cards that had been sitting in an old pickle jar so that when the kids received them they actually smelled like pickles. The post card simply had the date of Pickle Day and explained that every kid who came that day would get a pickle and if they brought friends they would receive an extra pickle for every friend they brought. It also exclaimed, “Why a pickle, Come and find out!” We used the pickle to tell the plan of salvation. Here is what that looked like:

“Does anyone know what this is? (Hold up cucumber) That is right, it is a cucumber. Tell me what you know about a cucumber. (Kids might respond with: they are a vegetable, they are in salads, and they are green.) That’s right. Raise your hand if you have ever eaten a cucumber. (You will have a bowl with 5 cucumber slices in it) Would you like to try a cucumber? How do they taste? They don’t really have much of a taste do they? This is what our lives are like with out Jesus. Jesus came and died on the cross to take the punishment for all the bad things we do. Can you tell me some examples of some bad things that people might do? Wow, those were some great examples. Did you know that Jesus died and rose from the grave because he wants us to live in heaven with Him when we die? All we have to do is ask Jesus to forgive us for those bad things we have done and ask Him to come into our lives and help us to live better. When we do that we become like this pickle. Jesus comes into our lives and makes us change all over. Now that same cucumber has taste. Now the cucumber smells like a pickle. When we have Jesus living inside our heart, people can really tell a difference just like we can tell a difference between this cucumber and this pickle. I would like to give anyone here who has never asked Jesus to come and live inside their heart a chance to do that now.

Believe it or not, we had 35 kids accept Jesus as their Savior on Pickle Day! So, was Pickle Day a success? Yes it was; and we did finally get the Pickle aroma out of the building.