Project Ezra

There is a movement to uphold and read the Word of God in public that I am excited about.

It may sound weird to you, but I believe that is only because our country has lost its real reliance on the Word of God. We are commanded by scripture to do just that.

1Ti 4:13 Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching. NIV

Please view this video of people doing just that reading God's Word in public places.

July 4th Witnessing Update

This isn't just a shameless plug for my kids blogs. Well, that and a testimony to my laziness. Okay, it is.

Rather than me blogging about our awesome time we had over the 4th of July in Prescott witnessing, tracting, open air preaching etc. I'll let my kids give you the update since they beat me to the punch on writing it all down. I know you'll enjoy their insight.

You can get all the details at either Kiah's site:

http://kiahsonlineodyssey.blogspot.com/

or

Isaac's site: http://i-mansarchives.blogspot.com/

Of course for Isaac's you'll have to scroll down a few posts as he is the most prolific blogger of us all. Way to go I-man.

Lord Bless you all as you proclaim Jesus.

Karl

Tracting leads to possible arrest

This isn't much of a witnessing story, but it is somewhat humorous, and who knows how it will end up.

My wife and I were on our 18th anniversary trip yesterday. We were stopped getting gas and the pump across from us has an older pickup truck with a very drunk woman in the bed of the truck sipping on an open container of some sort of hard liquer. As I approched the truck I saw two other people in the cab in addition to the driver who was in the store picking up more alcohol.

I handed them all $7.00 bills and the drunk woman kept repeating how much she loved me.... so I headed back to finish pumping gas and head out.

That would have been the end of the story, however the truck pulled out on the mountain road directly ahead of me. As my wife and I thought of them potential danger, not only of HELL but also of DUI, killing someone else on the road etc. we passed a Hwy Patrol vehicle on the side of the road. My wife (somewhat joking) said, "hey, you should pull over and report them". That was all it took. Moments later the officer (who was wiping lunch off his face when I approched the vehicle) was speeding down the road in search of the truck.

The best part (I guess) is that we were on twisting mountain roads with really no way of exiting. As we were driving and wondering if we'd ever learn the end of the story, about 3 miles down the road, we caught up with the police officer and the truck.

Short end of the story is, we passed by them as they were being pulled off into a Circle K and I'm sure, shaking in their boots.

It isn't often that kind of thing works out so perfectly. I just pray that when they sober up (whether than ends up being in jail, or wherever) that they still have the tracts with them and put 2 & 2 together and repent.

The LAW is a funny thing sometimes.

Upcoming Witnessing Opportunity JULY 4th

Christian Soldiers, the war continues for the souls of men and women!

We will be meeting in Prescott for the annual Independence Day Parade at 8am.

The parade begins at 9am, and we will want to be on the square handing out tracts in plenty of time before the start of the parade. If you live in the Tri-Cities area and want to join local evangelsists on the streets engaging in biblical evangelism please join us.

This isn't a training session per se, however there should be some people there who are experienced that you can shadow if you are not comfortable on your own.

We will see how the day progresses and may end up at the fairgrounds for the rodeo. I won't be staying for the evening events or the fireworks display, but I'm sure the opportunities to share the gospel will be great in the evening as well.

Please pray for us as we take the Good News of Jesus Christ to the streets.

If you have questions or need more information about this event, please leave a comment, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

Tony "The Lawman" Miano

Biblical Encouragement to Evangelize

If you frequent this blog then you already may be aware of Tony's Blog called The Lawman Chronicles. If you don't know who Tony Miano is, or have never been to his blog, I can't encourage you enough to check it out.

Tony is the director of the Ambassador's Alliance, a ministry under Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron's Way of the Master ministry.

I attended the evangelism training called the Ambassador's Academy back in July of last year. It was a life changing experience for me and one I will never stop thanking the Lord for.

The purpose of this post is not to bring glory to any man, but simply to point you to an awesome resource for news and encouragement in your personal evangelism.

Please take time to check out Tony's blog: The Lawman Chronicles

His blogroll is also on my site in the column to the right, and there is a banner link at the very bottom of this site.

God richly bless you.

Parade Day in Black Canyon City, AZ

Tracts Abound

Last Saturday was such a blast! My kids (Kiah & Isaac) are in a home shcool student council group called SALT (Servants And Leader in Truth). There were about 10 kids there all stocked with tracts. There were $3.00 bills, $7.00 bills, Millions, and even Billions.

Our church has an archery club that had a float in the parade and they were also walking in the parade and handing out tracts.

Between those two groups and others from the church tracting on their own, we were able to distribute over 1500 tracts in just under 2 hours. God is good!

I don't think I have ever received such great acceptance while handing out tracts. Not that I am judging the event by that, but I was surprised at how few folks turned down the Gospel tracts. In my opinion, the Obama Millions were the hit of the day.

In our mostly conservative small town, many were thrilled to get a Million Dollar Bill, and yet when they saw Obama's face on it they grimaced and turned it away. That is until I offered, "you can always use it for target practice". I did ask them to read the Gospel message printed on the back before turning it into confetti.

Here are some pictures of the event. The weather was perfect, and we had a great time working for the kingdom. I pray that all who received the Gospel in written form last weekend would be drawn by the Holy Spirit to a knowledge of the Truth.

Muzzleloader Outing

I apologize for being so behind on posting.

Carol and Wes Mason from Goodyear joined us for the afternoon at Ben Avery Shooting Facility. We enjoyed the sunshine and warm Arizona weather and the many sights and sounds from the 19th and early 20th century.

I spoke with this man briefly about the Gospel and we were able to hand out many tracts to participants and spectators alike.

All in all it was a fun family day, and one where we got to shine for Christ.

karl