For a long time now I have been talking with a couple of friends about doing an open air funeral. We thought this would be a good way to show people that death is real. Ten out of ten die. We had talked about buying a mannequin in order to do the open air funeral. However, the cheapest ones we could find were still $100 or more. So instead, we bought a white sheet at Wal-Mart for $5 and used an old sweat shirt as a pillow on the ground. My friend Duane agreed to be the “dead” body. We talked about it for a couple of days before hand and he gave me scripture to read and a couple of facts to point out about his life. With that, we layed out the sheet on the ground, he laid down, and I preached.
There is one guy who got upset and called the police as he rode away on the train. So you hear me dialog with him briefly at the beginning of the video.
A number of people clapped at the end. Several people came over and encouraged us to keep up what we are doing. Many people heard the Gospel. And the visual was very impactful for people walking buy. We will definitely be working on developing this as we go out preaching the Gospel.
