roses

A team of us went out to the main drag of Edinburgh (princes street) to hand out 500 roses for Easter. We immediately got screamed at for doing it for reasons honestly too long to explain. We got rejected much more than my naive self expected. Even free roses are hard to giveaway in Edinburgh, that's how turned off they are to giveaways.
After a while though, people started catching on that we really were giving them away for free, no strings added and people began to really love it. "Why would you give away free roses?" was the most common response. "Happy Easter from Eikon" was all we shared. It was brief, enjoyable for all us and sparked a few good conversations for some of the guys and we put smiles on people's faces.

We won't do a lot of street tracks or giveaways, but thought the free roses went over really well with people. We included a card that said, "church is a verb: who are you doing it with", along with our website. Prayin it sparked some curiosity in people, but importantly, glad it startled people and wiped away their grins.