tract – As You Go

Day 150930: Tract Tracker Contest Complete

September 30, 2015 Carl Cancer Awareness, Fried at the Fair, September 2015, Tract Tracker

September 30th! The last day of the Tract Tracker contest. I completed my Tract Tracker by giving the last tract – a Cancer Awareness tract – to the cashier at a restaurant at lunch! I also left a Fried at the Fair tract on the table. Here is the completed form!

If you have participated in the Tract Tracker contest, now is the time to return the tracker to the ministry. You can contact us mail the form to:

Bezeugen Ministries

PO Box 117822

Carrollton, TX 75011-7822

As the contest comes to a close remember that the real goal of the tract tracker is to make witnessing a daily part of your life. You might like to join the Everyday Club mailing list or the Facebook Group. If you are not already a member of the Bezeugen Tract Club you may like to enroll to get 30 FREE Gospel tracts per month! Check the October mailing for the next tract tracker!

I gave out a few more tracts this evening when I met my wife for dinner including leaving two on the bulletin board at a restaurant.

Day 150929: National Coffee Day

September 29, 2015 Carl #DailyTractChallenge, Play by the Rules, September 2015, Tract Tracker

Stopped for coffee on the way to work. Gave a Play by the Rules to the cashier. Completed the #DailyTractChallenge for National Coffee Day!

Day 150928: West End Witnessing

September 28, 2015 Carl Bookmark, Fried at the Fair, September 2015, Tract Tracker, Who do you say that I AM

Day 28 of the Tract Tracker contest. Starting the day, I have three tracts remaining from the September mailing of the Bezeugen Tract Club – Cancer Awareness, Play by the Rules and a Bookmark. if you are participating be sure to complete the tract tracker and then be ready to return it to the ministry on the 30th.

At lunch I met Craig in the Dallas West End for some witnessing. This is one of our favorite fishing holes. There are always people there milling about and waiting for the train or bus. So it is easy to approach them, hand them a tract and then share the Gospel with them.

I had an assortment of tracts with me including Fried at the Fair (which is popular this time of year with the Texas State Fair now in its first full week), Dallas Cowboys football schedule tract and a new version of the Who do you say that I AM that will be in the November mailing of the Bezeugen Tract Club.

Many people took the Cowboys schedule tracts. I had several good conversations with people with the fried at the fair tracts. Those conversations go like this. Can you name 10 things fried at the fair. Regardless if they do, then ask “can you name the Ten Commandments?” I had two teens tell me that they could not name the Ten Commandments, but one boasted that he could name 20 types of weed! They both claimed to be Christian. I reminded them that the Bible says not to be drunk, but to be full of the Holy Spirit!

I gave out the bookmark that is pictured above along with a New Testament to a young lady who listened very intently to the Gospel. After a brief conversation that started with the Fried at the Fair tract, I asked if she had read the Bible. She said no. So I asked if I could show her a couple things. She agreed. So I sat down next to her on the bench where she was sitting, opened the New Testament and walked her through the questions. She took the New Testament and bookmark and thanked me for my time!

Day 150927: Business Reply

September 27, 2015 Carl Play by the Rules, September 2015, Tract Tracker

I didn’t go anyplace today where I could share the Gospel with anyone. But I was sending a letter in the mail. So I included the Gospel and also put some Play by the Rules tracts into business reply envelopes and put them all in the mailbox.

Day 150926: Camo Card

September 26, 2015 Carl #DailyTractChallenge, Camo Card, September 2015, Tract Tracker

Today was national hunting and fishing day and the Daily Tract Challenge was to give out a camo card. I left one at the gas pump. I also went inside the gas station and left some camo cards in a business card holder. On a trip to the grocery store I gave tracts to a couple people in the parking lot, left several in beer cases and gave one to the cashier.

Day 150925: Medical Insurance

September 25, 2015 Carl Cancer Awareness, September 2015, Tract Tracker

Any time anything goes into the mail box it goes in with a Gospel tract enclosed. Today is no exception. Mailing the payment for medical insurance I enclosed a Cancer Awareness tract!

Day 150924: State Fair Prayer Meeting

September 24, 2015 Carl Camo Card, Football Trivia, Fried at the Fair, September 2015, Tract Tracker

After work I drove to Fair Park for a come and go prayer meeting at the State Fair Gospel booth. For the past five years I have brought a team of laborers to the booth to share the Gospel one day of the 24 day State Fair. This year I will lead a team on October 17th. The fair kicks off on Friday, September 25th and runs through Sunday October 18th. An estimated 3.5 million visitors will attend the fair making it the largest state fair in the country and one of the largest witnessing venues you could imagine. A booth is setup on Nimitz Blvd across the street from a row of fried food vendors and just a few hundred feet from the historic Cotton Bowl stadium. Each day during the fair people will come up to the booth to take the Million Dollar Eye test, get diagnosed by a spiritual doctor and then hear the only cure is through the life giving blood of Jesus! Please keep this outreach in your prayers.

So as I left the prayer meeting I had the chance to talk to a few people. I gave a Fried at the Fair tract to one of the vendors who was testing their food setup. I gave a football trivia tract to one of the workers sitting in a golf card. And I gave camo cards(from the September mailing of the Bezeugen Tract Club) to two guys who were from IBM and working on setting up the network for the coupon sales booth.

Day 150923: Date Night

September 23, 2015 Carl Football Trivia, John 3:16, September 2015, Tract Tracker, Who is described by

My wife and I got to have an impromtu date night! Went to a nice restaurant for dinner. I left a tract at the check in and gave an “Who is described by” to the hostess. After dinner I left a John 3:16 tract with a generous tip.

I stopped for gas on the way home and put two football trivia tracts in the gas pump credit card slots of the pump I was at and the one on the other side of the island. As I was walking around to get back in my car, I noticed a guy standing there pumping gas. I walked over, said hello and handed him a football trivia tract. I said, “Here is some football trivia for you. It has the Gospel on the back.” He said thanks and took it. As I walked off he was reading it!

Day 150922: Choose your gift

September 22, 2015 Carl Camo Card, Cancer Awareness, MyCard, Play by the Rules, September 2015, Tract Tracker

I decided to try something fun today. I posted a picture on Facebook of four tracts from the September mailing of the Bezeugen tract Club and asked people to pick which one I should hand out. I got a couple of responses, but not until after my wife and I decided to go to a convenience store to purchase a drink of water. While we were there they had ice cream so I decided to have one! At the check out there were two cashiers. I think one was in training. I took the four tracts along with a fifth that will be in the November mailing and laid them out in front of the cashiers. I said, “I have a gift for yuo. You can pick which ever one of these you’d like.” She picked the cancer awareness saying that it was a really important message. He picked play by the rules. I quickly explained that they both are the same – based on the message on the back. They thanked me and we returned to the park to pick up our son from Cross Country practice.

At the park I checked the Facebook posts and there were comments to hand out a play by the rules. Done! But there was also a comment to hand out a Camo Card. So I went up to a guy in the park and said, “have you got your camo card?” He said no and I handed him one. This part is kind of funny, and nothing bad is meant by it, but a new tract we have is called the “MyCard”. You’ll see it in the November mailing of the Bezeugen tract Club. I jokingly hand it to people as if it is my business card. So after handing him the camo card, I looked at his girlfriend and said, “here is MyCard”. She laughed, took it and said thanks!

Day 150921: Business Reply

September 21, 2015 Carl Camo Card, September 2015, Tract Tracker

Went to work and back and did not have the opportunity to share the Gospel with anyone. When I got home, I went through the mail and found several business reply envelopes. So I put camo cards into each of them and put them in the mailbox.