I had originally planned to go out to the Art Festival on Saturday and spend a couple hours there doing some one-to-one, but my lower back was not in the mood to go.
The event was a two day event so I thought I would spend a couple hours there after church on Sunday. For the most part the crowd was in a great mood and I was able to hand out about a 100 tracts (without a single rejection!) and talk with several folks.
One of the Way of the Master students from my Wednesday evening class joined me for the last 45 minutes I was there and got to watch, listen and observe as I used the big "Non-Event" of Saturday to start up conversations and talk with people about their eternal destinies.
Always be ready to start up conversations using current or world changing events and then be ready to make a connection (or swing) from the natural to the spiritual.
My lead in for a conversation was this easy:
Me: Did you get your Million Dollar Bill yet?
Them: LOL...I wish it was a real million dollars.
Me: I know, right? Hey, I'm with a street ministry called "His Feet on the Street" and I'm out here today asking people about the big Non Event of yesterday. What's your take on all that?
That's all I had to say to start the conversation and then I just stood back and let the people talk. When the time was right I steered the conversation away from Harold Camping and his false prophecy and turned it toward their personal accountability to God.
Only one person didn't want to continue the conversation once I steered it from a general talk about God to a personal talk about God.
Praise God for His faithfulness and may He receive all the glory and honor!
23 May 2011
10 May 2011
Main Street Mania?
This past Saturday, His Feet hit the streets in Jasper during Main Street Mania to hand out tracts and do some one-to-one evangelism.
For the second Jasper event in a row, the expected crowd was not up to our expectations. It seems there were only a handful of people that had come out to listen to the band that was to play while we were there.
Nevertheless, we tried to get a tract in the hands of everyone there (even the band members took some tracts) and we were thankful that God blessed us with some folks there that we could verbally share the gospel with!
Here is a quick video of our short time there
For the second Jasper event in a row, the expected crowd was not up to our expectations. It seems there were only a handful of people that had come out to listen to the band that was to play while we were there.
Nevertheless, we tried to get a tract in the hands of everyone there (even the band members took some tracts) and we were thankful that God blessed us with some folks there that we could verbally share the gospel with!
Here is a quick video of our short time there
06 May 2011
His Feet on the Street is 2 years old today -
It's hard to believe it's already been two years to the day that His feet on the Street has been taking the gospel to the streets of Cherokee and Pickens (and beyond) counties.
I praise God that He has allowed us to be witnesses of His Word to the lost and dying world right here in our home town area.
A big thanks, and all glory to God, to all of the precious brothers and sisters in Christ who have joined us in various events and festivals over the last couple of years! With your help, His Feet has handed out thousands upon thousands of tracts and shared the glorious gospel to hundreds and hundreds of people. Thank you for your compassion for the lost and sincere desire to share the gospel to complete strangers!
Praise God and to Him all the glory!
I praise God that He has allowed us to be witnesses of His Word to the lost and dying world right here in our home town area.
A big thanks, and all glory to God, to all of the precious brothers and sisters in Christ who have joined us in various events and festivals over the last couple of years! With your help, His Feet has handed out thousands upon thousands of tracts and shared the glorious gospel to hundreds and hundreds of people. Thank you for your compassion for the lost and sincere desire to share the gospel to complete strangers!
Praise God and to Him all the glory!
03 May 2011
Main Street Mania
His Feet on the Street will be in Jasper, Georgia this coming Saturday evening for Main Street Mania!
The entertainment for the evening will be the band "Stagrr".
The program begins at 5pm and goes to 11pm. The weather looks like it will be perfect and, hopefully, hundreds of people will come out to the event. We are looking forward to interacting with folks by handing out tracts and striking up conversations about the things of God!
If you are in the area and would like to join us, do not hesitate to do so!
Where: Main Street Jasper, Ga.
When: 4:30pm - Saturday, May 7th
Meeting Spot: - In front of the Bank of North Georgia on Main Street
24 April 2011
Sharing Christ
Over the last two weeks His Feet on the Street had the opportunity to bring the good news of the gospel to a couple of events in our community.
On April 15th, the small town of Jasper, Georgia hosted an art festival called, "Artfest". The idea was to have artists and craft vendors set up booths and displays to bring out the folks who appreciate art and give a jolt of commerce to the local business owners.
Unfortunately the weather had other plans.
Main Street Jasper looked like a dark, gloomy and people less town. Instead of the thousands of art and craft lovers that officials thought would be descending upon the little mountain town, maybe there were few hundred spread over the two day long event.
Determined not to let a low crowd turnout and a blustery day deter us, we prayed up and set out to hand out some tracts and, hopefully, engage a few people about the things of God.
One thing I like to do before we start witnessing at an event is to engage the local law enforcement and let them know what we are doing and why we are there. I like to give them the "You have a right to remain silent" tract while telling them the same thing. They almost always laugh and take the tract. Such was the case with the deputy in the above photo.
The deputy was very friendly to us and actually thanked us for being out there.
After leaving the deputy we started walking around and handing out tracts; no one seemed interested in conversation; it was just dead there that day.
God did provide us one young man to talk to, but the 18 year old seemed to have no concern about the things of God. We left him with a tract and much to think about.
All in all we gave out well under a hundred tracts and had just that one conversation.
A bad evangelism day? No, of course not.
We must never confuse evangelism with the fruit of evangelism.
Evangelism is not about how many people we can get saved and how many people we can get baptized and onto our church membership roles.
Salvation belongs to the Lord. God takes care of the results. We have been told by Jesus to go into all the world and proclaim the gospel; we were not told to worry about the results.
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Yesterday His Feet went to the Easter Egg Festival on Main Street in Canton, Georgia.
The flowers were blooming, the weather was perfect and the people were many.
I was uncertain if I was going to be able to join my team for this event due to having lithotripsy surgery the day before. Although I was very sore and, truth be known, should have stayed home and rested, I couldn't stand the thought of not being out with the team.
Our team got to talk to many people and we handed out hundreds of tracts.
We had conversations that went well and some that didn't go so well. Some people were polite and some, well, not so much. Some people listened with interest and some argued at every point of the conversation.
Again, salvation belongs to the Lord and we were the obedient vessels that simply took the message to where the people were.
We thank God for the opportunity to share the gospel in a country where it is still free to do so. We praise Him for the few workers He has raised up in this little part of the world where the harvest is great. We give Him all the glory for how He will use those tracts and conversations to bring His own to Himself!
On April 15th, the small town of Jasper, Georgia hosted an art festival called, "Artfest". The idea was to have artists and craft vendors set up booths and displays to bring out the folks who appreciate art and give a jolt of commerce to the local business owners.
Unfortunately the weather had other plans.
Main Street Jasper looked like a dark, gloomy and people less town. Instead of the thousands of art and craft lovers that officials thought would be descending upon the little mountain town, maybe there were few hundred spread over the two day long event.
Determined not to let a low crowd turnout and a blustery day deter us, we prayed up and set out to hand out some tracts and, hopefully, engage a few people about the things of God.
One thing I like to do before we start witnessing at an event is to engage the local law enforcement and let them know what we are doing and why we are there. I like to give them the "You have a right to remain silent" tract while telling them the same thing. They almost always laugh and take the tract. Such was the case with the deputy in the above photo.
The deputy was very friendly to us and actually thanked us for being out there.
After leaving the deputy we started walking around and handing out tracts; no one seemed interested in conversation; it was just dead there that day.
God did provide us one young man to talk to, but the 18 year old seemed to have no concern about the things of God. We left him with a tract and much to think about.
All in all we gave out well under a hundred tracts and had just that one conversation.
A bad evangelism day? No, of course not.
We must never confuse evangelism with the fruit of evangelism.
Evangelism is not about how many people we can get saved and how many people we can get baptized and onto our church membership roles.
Salvation belongs to the Lord. God takes care of the results. We have been told by Jesus to go into all the world and proclaim the gospel; we were not told to worry about the results.
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Yesterday His Feet went to the Easter Egg Festival on Main Street in Canton, Georgia.
The flowers were blooming, the weather was perfect and the people were many.
I was uncertain if I was going to be able to join my team for this event due to having lithotripsy surgery the day before. Although I was very sore and, truth be known, should have stayed home and rested, I couldn't stand the thought of not being out with the team.
Our team got to talk to many people and we handed out hundreds of tracts.
We had conversations that went well and some that didn't go so well. Some people were polite and some, well, not so much. Some people listened with interest and some argued at every point of the conversation.
Again, salvation belongs to the Lord and we were the obedient vessels that simply took the message to where the people were.
We thank God for the opportunity to share the gospel in a country where it is still free to do so. We praise Him for the few workers He has raised up in this little part of the world where the harvest is great. We give Him all the glory for how He will use those tracts and conversations to bring His own to Himself!
23 April 2011
Happy Resurrection Day!
"I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?" John 11:25-26
"In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain; But the Lord is risen to-day, Christ hath brought us life again, Wherefore let us all rejoice, Singing loud, with cheerful voice, Hallelujah!" Martin Luther
19 April 2011
Event: Easter Egg Hunt
The next event for His Feet on the Street will be the Easter Egg Hunt and Festival on Main Street, Canton, Ga.
The Festival kicks off at 1:00 PM on Saturday, April 23rd and is scheduled to have plenty of kid's activities including inflatables, lawn games, a scavenger hunt, Easter Bonnet contest and, of course, an Easter egg hunt. There will also be a Corvette Cruise-In and live music !
The weather looks very favorable for the Festival and for reaching potentially hundreds of people with tracts and conversations.
While there will be HFOTS team members there, my participation (or lack of it) is on a "wait and see" basis. This Friday (yes, Good Friday) I will be having yet another lithotripsy to bust up five stones that have taken up unwanted residence in my left kidney. So, depending on how I feel on Saturday, maybe I will be able to join the team for at least a little while.
Please pray that I won't have to be at home while the HFOTS team gets to have all the fun!
Where: Main Street, Canton Ga.
When: Saturday, April 23rd at 12:30 PM
Meet at: Main Street Theater
If you are out and about and would like to join us in this outreach, we would love having you!!
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