A Winnipeg church is extending a welcoming hand and the glow from thousands of lights to its neighbours.
Pastor Cam Stephens's excitement for Friday night radiates through his Zoom feed as he talks about Let It Glow, a drive-thru Christmas event his church is putting on.
"Our city is driving around checking out lights and if we can help by putting a hot chocolate in their hand, and some mini donuts in their car, and give them some lights to look at as well, then that is one way that we can bless our city and encourage them at Christmas time," Stephens says.
The co-lead and teaching pastor says hundreds of people have been working together to put the event, either arranging the light show, baking cookies or directing traffic. He says hundreds of people have put in a combined total of thousands of hours to make this happen after being dreamed of years ago.
"We have built a 35-foot tree with over 10,000 lights on it. they are all individually programmed so that it dances and does all sorts of stuff and it is all in sync with a radio station that we have as you pull into our lot."
From Friday to December 20, Grant Memorial's parking lot will be welcoming an unknown number of cars as families drive through their lot, looking at their large Christmas tree's many lights. The free event gives the church the opportunity to be a part of its community.
He says they want to "be a church that looks beyond the end of our own nose and sees the community, the city, the country, and the world that God has put us in."
Stephans says this is an opportunity to show his community that they care about them.
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