Pastor Steve,
What kind of a church to serve ? Is a small church are large church ? I'm an outreach Pastor/director and a small community Church, were about 170 people. I also teach on Wednesday nights. The church started in the home with 5 people 22 years ago.
I love combining my bow hunting stories with illustrations, I just recently cut my thumb with a razor blade in my bow shop where I work (part-time so far) it needed five stitches, and as the blood was dripping off of the thumb I said to the doctor " that reminds of that " and the doctor said remind you of what, how the blood drip down off of the cross and around down on the nail and on to the ground, when they nailed Jesus Christ to the Cross for our sins, he got nervous, then when the nurse came in, after the doctor left, I told her that the doctor got nervous ! She said
" what do you think he was so nervous about ", well I told her about the blood dripping off my hand reminding me of how Jesus Christ gave up his life for our sins, and asked her she saw the Passion of the Christ, and she got nervous. So you just turn anything into a opportunity to witness, now my is thumbs all wrapped up, so far I've told the story to, two gentlemen in a restaurant, a gas station attendant, about eight people at church, and two relatives.
The moral of the story, don't slash your thumb with a razor blade, just bandage it up, and tell the story anyway ! Just kidding !
As far as bows go, the next time I'm preaching, I'll be using my bow during the whole sermon, kind of an illustration, of simple equipment, simple things to witness about Jesus Christ.
Pastor Carl