We really had a good time today. This morning we went to one of the villages outside of Thessaloniki to do some letter boxing (book of John and a gospel tract with church information stamped inside). We worked for several hours in the morning then went back out in the evening and worked until it was dark. Able to cover about half of the village. The remaining section is dense, but few of the houses have mail boxes. So we have to either stuff the booklets in the gates or lay them on the front steps.
We are also passing out literature to people walking the streets and people we pass. We don’t see responses except the occasional person checking their mailbox and reading the book of John.
Tomorrow we are planning on more street work at the square.
While the rest of the country suffers financially – businesses closed (photo 013); construction projects abandoned (photo 014) – the Greek Orthodox church (photo 015), supported by “the government” (i.e. the people’s tax money), continues to thrive. But it offers the people nothing in return. No hope. No salvation. All they have is an opportunity for religious people to sooth their conscience by giving to the church, lighting candles, doing good to outweigh their bad, etc.