October…a month of ghouls, goblins, carved pumpkins, witches, costumes and candy. It’s the only month of the year where the powers of darkness are so openly celebrated and advertised-accepted even. Which also makes it the month for the church to rise up and take its war against the gates of hell to another level. Besides the House of Horrors, we also help our home church- specifically our children’s pastor, Pastor Phil Howe- put on the Fall Fest. It’s a one-night event that takes a good week of work to set up. There are fences to put up, literally tons of candy to collect and seperate, balloons to blow up, arches to build, and games to play. The actual event takes place on Halloween night, and we get to help run the blow-up slides, count people as they come, play baseball, pass out candy, and help the night run as smoothly as possible. We have between 5-6 thousand people pass through our church campus in one night-many of those are people who do not regularly attend church. They get to hear the Gospel and see it put into action all in one night, when normally, they might have never heard it at all.