Staff and students spread light on a dark evening.
If there is an evening when people are willing to take literature, Halloween is it. At Hartland, we seized the occasion. As carved pumpkins cast a flickering glow on the streets in our local communities, about 50 staff and students from Hartland went out into the night, each with a different light—the light of 30 copies of the special Halloween edition of Last Generation magazine. They set out to take the truth to people at a time when most are in the mood to open their doors to complete strangers. God turned a holiday made to celebrate darkness into the perfect witnessing opportunity.
Eva, one of the students who participated, recalls, “This one lady had a mask on to scare the children who were coming to the door, but when she saw me and my magazine, she just started laughing. I told her who I was and what I was doing. She was so amazed and said that she would read this magazine for sure.”
“Everyone accepted the Last Generations and encouraged us to keep going at it,” says Ike, a student who also distributed Last Generation magazines in the communities around Hartland on Halloween.
The evening was an excellent opportunity to acquaint our community with what Hartland is. Many had either never heard of Hartland or only knew of the property before it became a college. Hui, another student, shares, “We met a man who had no idea what Hartland was. I told him that it was a missionary training school and that I had come from Malaysia to study there. He seemed really interested. I think that he really liked the name: Last Generation Magazine. ”
With a fine witnessing tool like Last Generation, we felt no shame as we told people that we were training for Gospel service at Hartland College. As Ike puts it, “I was proud to hand them out, because they were so properly put together and designed.”
In one short evening, we passed out 1,300 copies of Last Generation Magazine. After the literature leaves our hands, we may never know who it has affected, but God gives us blessings even as we work. “I had a wonderful time,” says Angela Pulley, Dean of Women. Aaron called it a “great experience.”
In Heaven, though, we will be able to see the fruits of our labor. I invite you to join us in the incomparable experience of casting your bread upon the waters. Put God’s truth to work in your neighborhood.
