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Handed out close to 700 tracts in a couple of hours, stayed low key and under radar of Security Guards by God’s Protection. People were thanking me and were friendly, didn’t see any thrown on the ground, so I pray that The Lord would be Glorified and Many would be drawn unto His Son Jesus Christ in Repentance towards God and Faith in The Lord Jesus Christ.

I got the following note from Tom about their outreach at the

Steve, Tom and Tom's son at the Cubs outreach!

Cubs game:

Our team was myself and my son, Steve, and Robert (who took the picture).  We arrived two and a half hours early and the crowds were already gathering so we were busy right away.  There was a bit of rain but not enough to stop us.  We handed out 1,483 tracts in all.  May the Lord mightily use our small effort.  Looking forward to tomorrow when we hit the White Sox Opening Day!  It’ll be tricky since the entire park is on private property but we can catch the crowds as they come off the trains to go into the park area.

The first week of the MLB Outreach has brought many encouraging reports. From now until April 16th, there are 34 more events on the schedule!  You can access the information about each event on the map. Please be in prayer for each event. If you are able to join then please use the links on the map to locate the details about each event.
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April 7

• Pirates
• Colorado Springs
• Salt Lake

April 8

• White Sox
• Braves
• Tigers
• Mets
• Brewers
• Padres
• Angels
• Mariners
• Dbacks
• Tulsa Drillers
• Astros
• Twins
• Orioles
• Salt Lake
• Red Sox

April 9

• Braves
• Twins
• Giants
• Mets
• Montgomery, AL
• Salt Lake
• Gwinett, GA
• Frisco, TX

April 10

• Dbacks
• Salt Lake

April 11

• Salt Lake

April 12

• Dbacks
• Salt Lake

April 14

• Little Rock
• Springfield, MO

April 16

• Rays

Tom Burgee lead outreaches to the Cardinals games on March 31 and April 2. Here is an excerpt from his BLOG on how he described the outreach on March 31:

I had originally intended on attending only April 2nd, the first weekend of the home opener, but then heard about a “Cardinals rally” at a nearby plaza and made plans to attend that as well. I thought I’d be alone, but a faithful and dedicated brother jumped on board and he and I handed out over 2,000 tracts in only a couple hours. a few conversations were had and it was a great day literally 2500 people got the gospel in their hands…

and April 2

Saturday came and… nearly everyone who had said they would come didn’t, I’ll admit I was more than a little disappointed, but our God is amazing. God had sent two brothers to hand out tracts and share the gospel with us.  Four of us, handed out nearly 1,000 tracts to local game goers in the couple hours before game time, we had several amazing conversations, and above all God was glorified. He provided the tracts, He provided the laborers, and He will give the increase.

Please read the complete article in the St Louis Witnessing BLOG.

In New York, Tom Kiser lead groups out to evangelize at the Yankees games on March 31 and April 1. Tom wrote:

The outreach to the Yankees went great. We passed out 4,900 tracts.  I have about 100 left which will be very easy to get rid of.

Looking forward to this weeks outreaches to the Mets!

A couple of pictures from the events are below!

Kevin and his mom went to the Royals game and also had the chance to share the Gospel and some tracts. Kevin wrote:

I was blessed with the opportunity to share the Gospel at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri on Saturday, April 2 for the MLB Outreach. My mom joined me at the ballpark to help hand out the Baseball Trivia Gospel tracts. This was the 2nd time I have done this including once last year after a night game. We arrived to the ballpark about 30 minutes before the game started and I had to still buy tickets, so my mom began handing out tracts to people as they arrived near one of the gate entrances. I left a few stacks in and around the stadium near the hotdog and ketchup concessions which were gone when I checked later. God willing they were taken by the public. After the game my mom and I distributed more of the tracts to people as they left the stadium. All in all we handed out between 250-300 of the Baseball Trivia Gospel tracts. I would have liked to have handed out more, but God is in control and he had things occur exactly as he planned. It was a reall blessing to be a part of a national outreach that helps proclaim the Good News. God willing seeds were planted outside Kauffman Stadium on Saturday. All for HIS glory !!

On Friday, April 1, Mike, Wally and I went to Arlington to evangelize the Texas Rangers opening day game. As the defending American League Champions, the atmosphere was electric. We arrived about two and a half hours before the game. I found a place to park for $5 about three quarters of a mile walk from the stadium. As we walked to the stadium we saw signs for parking go from $15 to $30 to $35 and all the way up to $50!

Wally, Mike and I at Rangers Opening Day

Our mission was two fold. First was to glorify God by sharing His gospel message. Second, was to do some recon for the outreach the following day where we were anticipating about 30 participants to come with us so I wanted to have the lay of the land.

We brought with us about 1,800 baseball trivia tracts as well as another 1,700 or so other tracts that we had. We decided the best plan was to combine the two purposes of the outing. So we made our way walking around the stadium and handing out tracts and talking to people as we went.

Within a few minutes of being there, we had the only difficulty we had with the authorities. A woman who worked for the ball club told me that we could not hand out literature and had to go across the street. I told her that we are on public property and have the right to free speech. Around then another guy in Rangers credentials came by. He rudely snapped, “you have to be within 10 feet of the curb. I’ll step it off for you.” I looked toward the street and it seemed like maybe eight feet. So I told him that I was already within ten feet of the street. They decided they would go get the police. We continued to walk around the stadium and never saw them again nor heard anything from the police.

When we got around to the home plate corner of the stadium the crowds were really streaming in from the parking lot. The ballpark is situated such that some remote parking all funnels down to one bridge across a creek up to the stadium. We simply stood by the street (within 10 feet of the curb :-)) and handed tracts to the streams of people as they came across to the stadium.

Fans arrive for Rangers Opening Day

Wally and Mike manned one side. I took the other. Eventually I realized it would be easier to hand the tracts out by going across to the parking lot side of the street. So I proceeded over there and handed out 100’s of tracts.

I was running low on tracts and the people were still coming. I pulled all the tracts out of my back pack. Eventually Mike and Wally were out of tracts too and they came and joined me. They were out of tracts. I split up the remaining tracts that I had and we handed them all out. Then we picked up some of the tracts we found on the ground and handed them out again.

We made our way around the stadium to check out the rest of the corners. It appeared all four corners of the stadium would be ideal for witnessing for Saturday’s outreach!

I got the following report from Craig following the Marlins outreach:

We only had 3 of our Apocalypse Open Air preachers show up, (work day) so we each took a section of the parking lots. On private property we kept a low profile and were welcomed into almost every tailgate group, telling them “we are undefeated! Let’s celebrate! Here’s a million dollar bill!” They laughed and warmly accepted us (99%) and we were able to handout thousands of tracts. The inside lots started to overflow, so we were able to do our normal routine and preach on the public right of way as they queued up to cross the street from the overflow lots.

We discovered that the folks that were tailgating were very sociable and receptive – excellent targets! Very few rejections or negatives. Many Christians gave us a thumbs up. All in all, a great day.