Free Hot Chocolate

We decided to go out to the community and give hot chocolate today to people that passed by our center. It was an interesting idea but a foreign one for my teammates, not to mention being foreign for Kosovars. We started around 10:00 this morning because that's the time when you start to see people in the streets. Here in Kosovo the life starts very late. People in general stay up late at night and wake up very late. Explaining this helps you understand why we started at 10 am and not any earlier. When we started it was a little chilly. We thought this might help us to give away more hot chocolate. Not all the people that we offered a cup of hot chocolate accepted the offer. But we had a lot of people stopping by to get a warm drink, not to mention free. We had some good conversations with some young people. We gave them two options: they could take the cup with them or they could have a seat at our table so we could talk more and explain why we are doing this. Our idea was to get out there and meet new people and tell them about our activities and invite them to our meetings.

All in all, we think it went well. The good thing is that we met new people, personally invited them back to our center, and had direct contact with the community. Praise the Lord for instant drinks and electric hot water kettles!