Preaching the Gospel in Prescott (Court House Lighting & Christmas Parade

What a Great Turn Out!

I was so blessed yesterday by all who came out to give their Saturday to the Lord in witnessing for Christ Jesus.

Altogether our group numbered 27 saints. Thank you to Kristen, Matthew, Mariah, Renee, Lee, Timothy, Brandon, Michayla, Dave, Deanna, Logan, Liam, Bill, Dani, Natalie, Nick, Kiah, Isaac, Martha, Carol, Wes, Ronny. (pictured)

Also (not pictured) were Michael, Daniel, Daniel's Dad, and Carolyn.
What a great group. Your enthusiasm for the Lord truly blessed me. We had folks from Black Canyon City, Dewey, Prescott, Prescott Valley, Chino Valley, Surprise, Camp Verde, and 2 traveling evangelist families from Oregon. God brought us all together for one purpose this weekend. To proclaim His holiness and His salvation. Praise God for His sovereign hand. The traveling families are the James and Chafees. We were so blessed to have them join us and would encourage you to invite them to come and hit the streets where you live. You can find them "Agents for Christ" at www.agentsforchrist.org




My son Isaac handing out Million Dollar Bills before the parade started.

Isaac has a great boldness from God, and doesn't let fear hold him back from being obedient to the Lord.




This precious lady was Josephine. She is in her 80's and grew up in a Catholic home. We spent 20-30 minutes talking as I explained the Law of God and her need to recognize and repent of her sin.



For the most part, people were very friendly and gracious to allow us to engage them in conversation. We had many great opportunities to share the Gospel one on one and handed out over 1000 tracts during the course of the day.

If any of you that were there have additional pictures and stories of your encounters, please e-mail me, and I'll post them here on the blog.


Thank you to our Savior, Jesus!

Here are some other faces from the day and evening of preaching Christ in Prescott. Thank you Jesus for allowing us to have the privilege of being your ambassadors.









After a few hours on the streets and some great encounters, it was time for some food. We enjoyed sharing our stories and encouraging one another in the Lord before some of us headed back for the 6pm lighting and some more awesome opportunities.






Here are a few pictures of the faces and events after dark. What an awesome day. All glory goes to our great God and Savior. May He cause the increase.



This boy like many folks on the street was so excited at his "gift".



Isaac, Natalie & Kiah... the teen tracting team. Well, almost. Isaac and Natalie are both 12. Guess I shouldn't try and rush them, huh.



This group of 14 year olds (pictured above)were buzzing on Starbucks and were pretty distracted, but once we began discussing eternity, even phone calls from friends took a back seat, as they scolded their friend for answering the phone and told her, "hey, this is really important." May God bring the reality of the Truth to their young hearts.



The lights were beautiful, but not as beautiful as the faces of the people touched by the Gospel, and the faces belonging to the beautiful feet of those who were obedient to bring the good news. God is so faithful. Amen?!

Christmas Courthouse Lighting Planning

For anyone wanting to join us for an evangelism outreach opportunity, we will be meeting at the Starbuck's on Sheldon St. in Prescott this Saturday Dec. 6th at 12 noon.

We will head from there to the parade route by the square. The parade is scheduled to begin at 1pm. Please bring plenty of tracts as there will be thousands of people lining the streets for the parade.

We will play it by ear, but we will most likely be staying until 6pm for the Court House Lighting.

We are looking forward to a great time of watching God's Word and Gospel go forth.

If you can't make it, please commit to pray for us as we boldly proclaim Christ in a world that is increasingly anti-christ.

Thanks Saints!

Karl

Way of the Master Crash Course Resourses

If you aren't familiar with the Way of the Master or Ray Comfort or Kirk Cameron, then you need to visit www.wayofthemaster.com or www.livingwaters.com or www.wayofthemasterradio.com.

If you've followed this blog for very long, then you have seen the posts about the one day evangelism crash course that we held two weekends in a row in Oct. If not, here is the link to that post: http://streetadventures.blogspot.com/2008/10/double-crash-course-double-blessing.html

I want to post here some resources for anyone who may want to lead a crash course in your home or at your church. The following documents are in PDF format. The first one is a participant's guide that can be freely reproduced. The second is a leader's guide for the Way of the Master Crash Course, but it is also so much more than that. A friend of mine, Linda Essary has written this manual and it is also a guide as to how to build an evangelism team in your community. There is so much priceless information from an experienced trainer. Linda has trained up over 150o evangelists in the past 4 years using these resources, and I want wanted to make them available to you.

So without further adieu here is the link for the web page that will give you the links for the two resources for download:

www. calvarybcc.com/WOTM_crashpage.html

I hope that you are as blessed by this material and leading a class as I have been.

Off Topic - Way off

My son Isaac and I got to go deer hunting in the N. Kaibab last weekend and my son got to take his first deer.

I did manage to get some tracts out to the gas station attendants on the way to and from the hunt, but failed miserably while out on the hunt. The deer just wouldn't stick around for any open air preaching and every time I tried to hand out tracts, they just made tracks. I'm not sure what I was doing wrong. Any suggestions? LOL

Here is a picture from the hunt. We went with a friend and his two boys, (George and his boys Mike and Joey) all three kids were successful in harvesting their deer. Thank you God.

New Evangelism Encouragement Technique

Just wanted to share this video with you, as we are incorporating this new technique of evangelism training into our church after having a great turn out at the Crash Courses in October. Now, going into the holidays it may be easy for saints to get caught up in the business of the world and neglect to go out of their way to preach the Gospel.

We expect this new encouraging technique to be highly effective and are looking forward to seeing the results.

McCain Rally (Monday) before election day

Thousands of people

We were not prepared for the evening. That is an understatement. A small group of friends had decided that with Senator McCain coming to Prescott to speak last Monday evening it would be a great opportunity to hand out tracts and witness to people. Wow! We had such a great time sharing Christ with people.

The city had gated off the courthouse square, and people were lining up to proceed through the one entrance. The lines of people went both directions around the entire block, and then wrapped back on itself more than once. There were literally thousands of people standing in the closed streets for hours waiting to get into the grounds with hopes of seeing the then presidential candidate.

Tracting

We had great success in handing out Million Dollar Bills, Giant Money, and One Shrinking Dollar tracts as well as others. We even met up with some believers from a baptist church in Chino Valley who were down there for the same reason. It was good to be encouraged by brothers in the Lord.

God & Country interviews

I had brought the church video camera, and we were able to get several interviews on tape. I was basically starting in the natural, asking questions about what people thought of our country, and its relationship to God, then swinging to the spiritual by asking if they thought that the USA is a morally good country and finally getting a little more personal by asking if they considered themselves to be good people.

I have included the video for you here. It is a little long, but I didn't want to leave out any of the important parts, and I wanted you to get the feel of the interview without chopping it up too much. I also wanted to include the questions in starting in the natural for anyone who may want to try this technique themselves.

I found it to be a great way to get people to open up, although I'll admit it does take a substantial amount of time to swing to the spiritual and get down to business.

Please let me know what you think. I am always critiquing myself to judge how I can better present the Law and the Gospel and better communicate to the lost.

Jungle Jeff on the Courthouse Square

Apology

I must apologize to you all for not posting sooner on these last few evangelism encounter. My kids are much faster at posting so I'll plug their blogs which are: http://i-mansarchives.blogspot.com and http://kiahsonlineodyssey.blogspot.com/.

Jungle Jeff

Well, after our great opportunities in BCC on Halloween, we went the very next day (Sat.) to Prescott to the court house lawn to see what the atmosphere was like up there and if there were people milling around that we could engage in conversation about eternity.

Among other folks who we did get to witness to, Jungle Jeff sticks out. He is a homeless man who had been drinking but was able to communicate. He had 2 outstanding DUI warrants but refused to turn himself in, and preferred to spend the nights on the street in Prescott.

As I opened God's Holy law to this man, even through the effects of the alcohol his conscience was pricked. He began to weep as I explained that he had broken the law of a most Holy God.

In the end, Jeff would not repent this day, but I pray that the truth that we shared with him would stick with him and that he would break before God before it is too late.

We were on the square with my brother-in-law Tim and his wife Kristen, and some friends Lee and Renee and our families. Lee and Tim were also both able to share with Jeff. Please Father, open the eyes of Jungle Jeff.