Luring the lost to church? Spiritual gifts, serving, evg equipping, God directs/changes man's plans as His will be done

I need some advice. I've been running a church event for 2 years now. I felt a desire to find a way to attract people to the church and peak their interest. For the last 2 years I have planned, preped, set up, and put together the event, with little to no help outside of volunteers the day of. 

Today, I approached the childrens minister, who offered to help this year, to set a meeting date to go over details for the event. I was then told to my face that it will most likely be canceled this year because she is too stressed with VBS to worry about this event. I am hurt because I have done everything for this event every time, and did not ask for help but accepted it when offered. And now the entire thing seems it's going to be canceled because the help no longer wants to help, even though I am more than happy to do this on my own.

I want to speak to my pastor about this, as he is the one who authorized this event and told me to make it good. But part of me is worried he will agree with her. My fear is withoutvit I've lost the only way I know how to contribute to the church. Please let me know what do and how to pray. God put this on my heart years ago, and I still feel an incredibly strong calling towards it.



A: If there's no ability to help, you can't try to push it on those already overwhelmed with a long standing project the Church has which educates kids/the next generation/ into the Lord. 
Who are you serving? That's ultimately what you need to prayerfully biblically meditate on. If it is genuinely your desire to reach folk for Christ, then God may be saying no, but you are going your own way with it. It might be time to make changes. It may be a waste of time, energy and money. Also if your life is not right with God as it should be and He is not the priority (over self) then it will fail; 

Matthew 6:33: "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." 

I would think time is better spent doing outreach instead; bring the gospel to people, and when they get saved, offer them to come to the church for duscipleship. Our goal is not to bring the unsaved in, but to bring in new believers to be added to the church and get discipled. It is a big waste of time and not the biblical order in which we are to bring people into the church.

Regardless, it doesn't appear it is God's plans for that project to happen... He appears to have other plans. Scripture does speak on that. We cant selfishly try to push our way, we must submit to God's will, and be Humble servants. 

Proverbs 16:9 "In their hearts, humans plan their course, but the Lord directs their steps." 

Proverbs 19:21 "Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand."

James 4:13-15 "Now listen, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.' Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, 'If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that.'" 

Isaiah 55:8-9 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the Lord. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." 

Psalm 127:1 "Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain." 


This info on Believers Fruit (and the message here on Marks of True Christian Service) will help you on this topic. It can help refine your way of thinking.


Additional Helps on correcting the sin of complaining, grumbling, discontentment, dissatisfaction, bitterness, self thinking, etc can be found here, and I hope it and all these resources can help guide you back to or into biblical mindset of a faithful servant of God. 

There are plenty of ways to serve in the Church. God gifts all his redeemed ones with gifts to serve the local church. You might do well to take time and study about them, and figure out what ones you might have, and then go find ways to serve. There are loads of places in the chyrch, even in small churches. Btw the VBS project leader sounds like she needs help. 😉

God bless

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