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By Mary Fairchild, About.com

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Creative Witnessing

I have a friend who decided years ago to make Halloween a night for creative witnessing. Her particular neighborhood goes "all out" for Halloween. Everyone participates in an elaborate and coordinated decorating project. The display is so popular and well-visited that over 3000 trick-or-treaters pass through their street each year. My friend is also an artist. On Halloween she and her husband turn their front yard into a graveyard. The gravestones are engraved with Scriptures in calligraphy that provoke visitors to think about eternity and mortality. The messages spark questions, and she has had endless opportunities over the years to share her faith.

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