WOW Jam Hanford Report

Well, we finally hosted our first Wow Jam in Hanford. At least ten churches joined together to host the event at Coe Park here in Hanford, CA. Many had been waiting for this for a number of years. I remember my dad wanting to bring Wow Jam in to town back in 2001-2002. So it has been a long time coming, but it was well worth the wait. To see so many churches come together was an awesome thing.

Wow Jam is a free event where people are given a free meal, haircuts, face painting, prizes, fix kids' bikes and on and on. Everything is free and it is done just to show people that God loves them. The organization brings in a semi with a portable stage and puts on a kind of rally of sorts that ends with the message of the gospel and a salvation call.

Just wanted to share the stats we tracked last night at WOW Jam. Again, all this stuff was given out for free.

Estimated Attendance: 4000 + (at the peak)
Face Painting: 166
Bike Repair: 78
Family Portraits: 215
Kid’s Corner Pictures: 90
Nails / Manicures: 58
Book Nook (books read to kids): 58
Cups of Water Given Out: 1445
Haircuts: 108
Raffle Tickets Give Out: 3401
Hot Meals Given Out: 1784 (with a lot more drinks given away, 3000+)
Career Counseling: 50+
Makeovers: 29
Sno Cones: 616
Plants Given Away: 136
Over 700 bags of groceries given out.
More than 300 volunteers from 11 churches served.

Decisions Made: 446 (recommitments & first time salvation decisions)

We ran out of salvation cards and salvation packs and I'm guessing we gave out 600+ bibles.
Pretty neat stuff!

Here's a few pics.