It's a bird... It's a plane... It's a... OUTHOUSE?
They claim we are crazy and they are right. We had registered for the City of McDonough, Georgia Christmas parade a couple of months earlier. But, due to our busy schedule we had not yet constructed a float. Frankly, we did not even have a firm idea of what the [more...]

Crayons and Smiles
Due to the souring economy, for the first time the City of Stockbridge, Georgia was opening up their Holiday Festival to private companies and the Out-Team was there! We understand that in the past, the event was purely a city sponsored event with no private attractions or vendors. This year [more...]

Gray Haired Teenagers Playing in the Rain
Our Community H.U.G. Cookout had been canceled because of rain. So, we decided to find another way to demonstrate the love of Christ on this soggy day. We were five grown men, four of us middle aged and graying running around in the rain like a bunch of teenagers. The [more...]

Salvation at Walnut Grove
It was a beautiful but warm day when we visited Walnut Grove Apartments in Jonesboro, Georgia for our second time. We were there to share the the love of Christ, demonstrating to the guests that God does care. We had a good team of people volunteer for the event. For [more...]

Breaking Barriers with Love
It was a warm day when a small group lead by Pastor Butch Entrekin descended upon the Tara Mobile Home Park community, on Museum Circle in Jonesboro, Georgia . With them they brought hot dogs, drinks, recycled clothing, Christian materials and a face painter. We have always worried that we [more...]

I Sorta Got One Foot In and One Foot Out
It was a hot day and we were holding a HUG Cookout in a local McDonough neighborhood of duplexes and quadruplexes known as Toby Springs. The volunteers had just gotten set-up and started cooking when a man we will call Clyde, approaches. A volunteer welcomes Clyde to the event and [more...]

First Post: Welcome!
Welcome to the HUG Crusade Latest News! For the first few months the outreach projects of our group (Local Out-Team) will likely dominate these news items. But, as the number of groups and their respective projects increase our relative presence will decrease proportionately. Our goal is for our group to [more...]