The Process of Passing Out

So, I thought for today, I would give you all a diagram of what how we pass out all these tracts. We were given 20,000 tracts to hand out and today was our fourth day of trying to accomplish this task. So here is how we do it.

1. Meet at Treffpunkt 180

 

At 9:30am we meet at Treffpunkt 180 and gather for a devotional time. After some prayer, we pull out the maps, two-way radios, and tracts and stuff them into our bags. We break into two teams and then head to the bus stop.

2. Get on public transportation

 

The public transportation over here is really efficient and easy to use. We can get to several different areas of the city by transferring between busses and trams. The bus comes every 20 minutes or so and then we squish on with everyone else. Depending on where we are going, it can take anywhere from 15-25 minutes to get to our area to begin passing out tracts.

3. Figure out our direction

Once we are off the bus or tram, we gather around the maps and decide what buildings we need to cover and what teams are going to cover them. From there, it is only a matter of the teams going door to door on the apartments, looking for the mailboxes, and placing the tracts in.

4. Ring the doorbells

The biggest problem that we run into is that many of the apartment buildings have the mailboxes inside a lobby on the first floor. In order to get in to access the mailboxes, we must ring the doorbell and then talk to a resident for them to unlock the door from their apartment. But we need native German speakers in order to speak to the residents. They say something along the lines of: “Wir wuerden gerne Werbung einwerfen – Danke.” Several people from the church have volunteered to go with us. They have been a blessing.

5. Put the tracts in mailboxes

 

Once inside the apartment, we put the tracts in the mailboxes. Some of the boxes have stickers on them, which prohibit us from giving them a tract, but we try not to take it personally. We are only about 5,000 tracts left from finishing and we hope do those on Friday.