For everyone who doesn’t want to give out tracts to trick or treaters because you don’t want anything to do with Halloween, this testimony is for you.

It was a Wednesday night in mid-October 2022. My friend showed up to my house with his arms full of Chick Tracts. Leaning over the counter, he opened his arms and dumped them all out. “Here you go,” he chimed, “This is for you to give out with candy to all the trick or treaters!”

There’s No Way I’m Doing This!

When he left, I prayed. “Jesus,” I said, “There’s no way I’m doing this! It’ll just confuse people and make it look like Christians can take part in Halloween.”

Yet, something within me was nagging me to keep praying and seeking God for what He would say and what He wanted me to do, so I ended the prayer by saying:

“Then again if this was You that provided the tracts, I know You, You always provide for ministries when it’s Your will. I’m testing you in this, God, if this is Your will for me to give out tracts for trick or treaters, you will also provide the bags, the candy and the crayons!”

The next day on my lunch break, I saw a bumper sticker that said: “Thou Shalt Not Test Me.” When I saw it, the Holy Spirit convicted me very much so. I threw my hands up right there and repented, knowing this wasn’t just God reminding me not to test Him—He made it known right then and there that I was to give out the tracts for trick or treating.

From Hesitation to Harvest

That first year (2022) there were 111 tracts given out. By Halloween of 2023, I had help from just a couple other people and we gave out 1,067 “tract and treat” bags—mostly at a local Halloween parade.

This year, 2024, my church thought it was a great idea and together we did 1,660 total tract-and-treat bags—1,500 for kids and an additional 160 bags for teens (the teen bags are quart sized bags, and they all get candy, a tract, and a New Testament). Again, these were given out mostly at our local Halloween parade.

You don’t have to use a Halloween themed tract—we are using Charlie’s Ants for 2025 for the kids and “Unloved” for the teens. Speaking of 2025, next year, we are going to have forms for the congregation to order how many bags they each can give out for any Halloween-related activities.

Don’t listen to everyone who says, “those tracts are just going to be thrown away!” In the parable of the sower that Jesus tells, some seeds fall on good soil and go on to produce a hundredfold harvest (Matthew 13: 1-9)—think on these seeds that end up planted in good soil and really spring up to make a difference!

It all started with a prayer and a bumper sticker. Imagine what the Holy Spirit can do with an entire booklet.

- Keirsten