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Super Bowl XLV came to Dallas. Along with it came one of the most crippling winter storms ever. Ice and snow and cold weather certainly changed some plans. But, the word of God still went out! With over 100 people coming into town and the bad weather, we only had six people not make it due to the weather. One flight was cancelled and that person arrived the next day. Another flight was cancelled, but that guy got on standby on another flight and still arrived on time.

The outreach started on Thursday night. We had several speakers to teach and encourage the group. On the opening night we had dinner together at the camp and a time of worship. We got to enjoy fellowship together and settled into our cabins. Marv at One Million Tracts brought five different Super Bowl Tracts. A group of us stayed up until midnight stacking those tracts into stacks of 100. There were about 120,000 of these tracts!

Friday morning opened with prayer and breakfast followed by two more speakers. A round table discussion finished out the morning session. The roads were in bad shape with the snow and ice. Nonetheless, most of the groups ventured out of witnessing, Myself and about ten others stayed back at camp and had prayer and fellowship. We eventually ventured out for dinner. I think everyone in the restaurant got a tract. Then we went to Target and handed out tracts there until the manager asked us to stop.

Saturday morning the weather was better. The snow was melting. After prayer, breakfast and three more speakers we ventured out to Dallas to share the Gospel. My team went to Victory Plaza near American Airlines Center in Dallas. We rode the DART train from Carrollton to downtown Dallas. This provided the opportunity for more fellowship and also the opportunity to share the Gospel. Dorothy had a one on one conversation on the train that Ellen got on video! From one train stop to the next, I preached the Gospel on the train. At Victory Plaza, we open air preached, shared the Gospel one on one and handed out hundreds of tracts.

Sunday was the big day that Dallas had been waiting for for years. The Super Bowl in North Texas. The weather was great! Early day for the evangelist. We were all tired and weary. I got up around 5:20AM and we had prayer at 6AM followed by breakfast and then worship and the final speaker of the outreach. WOW! Were we blessed with some good and challenging teaching. Then we were off to the stadium. We were blessed to have been provided some close parking at a nearby location that was donated to us. That was a real blessing.

We arrived at the stadium at 11AM. We had selected ten locations around the stadium and dispatched our teams. My team was stationed near the Southwest corner of the stadium. We handed out a lot of tracts and had one on one conversations. I read from the Gospel of Matthew.

After we were there for about an hour I had a text that one of our team leaders was warned by the police. I decided to walk around the stadium and visit with each of the team leaders to make sure everything was ok. As I walked around the stadium, I was able to experience the Super Bowl crowd and hand out tracts along the way. I checked in with each leader. The issue I had heard about with the authorities was resolved. Canyon Shearer was stop light preaching near the ball park. He said he was thinking others would alternate with him. So, I took a couple of turns and preached to the crowd as they were walking to the stadium.

While visiting with another leader, the police approached. The had a short chat with them and showed them the letter that our attorney’s had prepared for us. I am very thankful for the work these attorneys did up front. The police were satisfied with our documentation and allowed us to continue preaching. The box was empty and I was handed the mic. So I did an open air there before heading back to my team.

Along the way, there was a group of kids handing out “I am Second” cards. These cards have a web site for people to lookup. But they don’t have any gospel message on the card. I noticed they had some of the Super Bowl trivia tracts that we were handing out. They said they liked handing those out. So I emptied all of the tracts out of my backpack and gave them to them to hand out. They were appreciative.

Back with my team we headed down to Collins and continued handing out tracts. I sent the team members to walk up into the crowd to share the Gospel and experience the mayhem of the day. While they were gone I continued reading the Gospel of Matthew in the open air. One by one, I encouraged the others in the team to read the Bible in the open air. Eric, Wally, Ellen and Ann all read at least one chapter of the Bible!

Finally it was time for the game to start. We headed back to the car. Driving back to camp we stopped for dinner and had some wonderful fellowship too. A tiring weekend was over.

On Monday, we had a few people left in town that needed rides to the airport. I picked two of them up at camp and headed to the West End for some more evangelism. About 15 of us were there in all. The Holy Spirit was really moving. Guys were preaching in the open air. Tracts were being handed out. Many one on one conversations were happening. Eventually we went to eat lunch at Sonny Bryans BBQ. I got a chance to open air preach before we left to take Eddie to the airport.

As I was leaving and saying goodbye to some of the other out of town folks, I was told that a man had just received Christ. Apparantly he was handed a Super Bowl bookmark tract and a “Gospel of Jesus Christ” tract as he boarded the train leaving the West End. While on the train he read the tracts and received Christ as savior. He returned to the West End later and spent two hours talking to one of the guys on the team. It was amazing to hear this news of this mans salvation. We heard of two others who received Christ that day as well!

The Super Bowl Outreach was a big success. My guess is at least 150,000 tracts went out over the three days. The Gospel was preached. And men were saved for all eternity. We may never know, this side of heaven, the full impact of the outreach!

Were you at the Super Bowl Outerach? Please add a comment with your testimony. I’ll add additional BLOG posts with videos and more photos as I find them.

Join us next year in Indianapolis!

Other Super Bowl Outreach links:

• Ellen’s pictures
• Keith Higgin’s BLOG Post

This is a video from the Super Bowl Outreach where I was open air preaching near the American Airlines Center. Across the street there was a big line of people waiting to get into the celebrity beach football game and a Maron 5 concert. The event was full and the people were never allowed in.
The Dallas code of compliance officers did not like us being there. However, we had done our research in advance, knew that we were allowed to be there. A quick call to the Lieutenant at the Dallas Police Department cleared up the situation and we preached, had one on one conversations and handed out tracts all afternoon.

At the Super Bowl Outreach, we were riding the DART from Victory Station to the West End Station. This is one stop away and is only a few minutes ride. I used the time to share the Gospel with the people on the train!

At the Super Bowl Outreach, Team 2 took the DART from Carrollton to Dallas. Along the way we had the chance to share the Gospel with a number of people on the train. Here is a video of Dorothy sharing the Gospel with a man on the train.

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The NFL Experience is an interactive show for NFL Fans. It is set up at the Dallas Convention Center in preparation for the Super Bowl. As I understand it, there is an estimate that 250,000 people will attend this event in the ten days that it will be open. Today we headed to the Dallas Convention Center to do some recon prior to next weekends Super Bowl Outreach and also to preach the Gospel, hand out tracts and witness one on one.

Recon
The recon was a big success. Thanks to the organizers, they have only one entrance and exit to the event. The exit actually routes people back by the entrance. So there are some good areas to stand outside and preach to the people who are waiting in line to get in and also a steady flow of people coming out. We walked all the way around the convention center checking out where parking is, where the flow of foot traffic goes, etc. We got a good lay of the land for next weekend. We handed out tracts as we went. Had some one on one conversations too. And we talked to a couple of security guards and policemen to confirm where the entrances to the place are.

Wayne pointed out this funny photo op. The police car says “Serving since…” down the side. But since the door was open, it says “serving sin”. Funny!

Preaching the Gospel

Wayne, Jay and I spent about three hours outside the the NFL Experience. We estimate that we handed out at least 2,000 Gospel tracts. We had a number of one on one conversations. I used the Lie Detector to strike up some conversations. I preached the Gospel to the line. Then I read the book of 1 John in the open air. I am planning to read through the New Testament in the open air during 2011. Two books down.

Mark Cahill recently released a new booklet called “One Second After You…” Of course on the inside it indicates that what follows the ellipses is “die!” The book does a wonderful job of explaining that God exists, that Heaven and Hell exist and how to get to Heaven. There is some excellent background information to refute evolution and know that the Bible is true. Recently Mark donated a case of these books to us. Today we took them out to Brookhaven College and gave them away to the students.

We brought 180 copies of the booklet, three cases of water bottles, hundreds of tracts, a few DVD’s and about 100 AfetrLifeCatalog pens. Our primary focus was handing out the books and the bottles of water. Craig, Todd and I also engaged the students in one on one conversations. We each had a number of great conversations with the kids.

When I handed the book to one woman she asked “is this a God thing or a mysticism thing?” I said, “it is a God thing.” She handed the book back to me. So I asked if she liked to watch movies. She said sometimes that she did. So I handed her a DVD that we had instead. She took it and said she would watch it.

While most of the kids were passing by on their way to class. Some would stop and talk. Others took the books and then went and sat down in the courtyard area and began reading. This group of young ladies were all sitting around reading the booklet a short distance from where we handed them out.

Have you considered the parable of the sower?

And he told them many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow. ⁴And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. ⁵Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, ⁶but when the sun rose they were scorched. And since they had no root, they withered away.⁷Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. ⁸Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. ⁹ He who has ears, let him hear.” (Matthew 13:3-9)

When out handing out tracts, books or resources we see all four types of soil. Some will pass by and totally ignore what we are doing. Some will ask what it is and then walk off uninterested. These two groups made up about ten percent of todays group. The next group will take it and might go off reading it or show better interest. This is the bulk of the people at the college. The last group is the ones that really excite us. You hand them a book and they say, “what is this? will you explain it to me?”


Today, a young woman who said she was a Muslim fit the last category. We talked for some time about God, Heaven and Hell and how to get to Heaven. We went through the Law and she indicated that she had lied, stolen and dishonored her parents. As we spoke more, she used God’s name in vain, twice. Yet, when I asked her if she would be innocent or guilty, she would say innocent. She and I went round and round a couple of times, talked about the court room examples and examples involving discipline in the classroom. I tried to explain how Christianity is different from all the other religions. But she was not listening. Fortunately, for me, Todd eventually came into the conversation and was able to explain to her that while religion is about man trying to earn favor with God, Christianity is about recognizing that God has already done everything necessary to save a person if they will simply repent and believe. She still had questions, but she listened intently. I was able to point her to some pages within the One Second After booklet that she already was holding the that answer some key questions, like how to know the Bible is true.

After about an hour and fifteen minutes, we packed up and headed home. We had handed out 150 of the booklets, a case of water, a number of tracts, all the DVD’s we had brought and a number of the AfterLifeCatalog pens. Brookhaven is one of our favorite fishing holes. We will be back next month!

The One Second After You booklet is available from Mark Cahill’s website. Many thanks to Mark Cahill for making this resource and providing them to us for the outreach.

Saturday, January 22nd marked the 38th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision to decriminalize the sin and crime of abortion which has become our nations holocaust. Since then, the slaughter of the innocent in the womb is estimated at over 48 million unborn babies. To mark this occasions there were a number of pro-life rallies at churches and abortion clinics around the country. I was invited to join up with some folks who were meeting at  Northpark Medical Center in Dallas.

When I got there, I was the first one there. Having never been to one of these abortion clinic events before i was not sure what to do. Eventually I just took the cross over and stood next to the entrance of the clinic. Eventually a few other people came. I had one of them hold the cross while I read Psalm 134-139.

There were at least three organizations represented at the event. Two groups were from different churches and one group was from Christ for the Nations. I asked someone after the event and they told me that someone had counted 64 people in all standing up for the innocent unborn babies.

The people there gathered together in prayer, read scripture, sang songs and preached a few sermons. Some carried signs and banners. Others held a cross. Everyone prayed. As people came to the clinic they were offered material about the dangers of abortion.

A single security guard stood outside the gate and encouraged those coming to murder their babies to come into the center. I shared the Gospel with him. His name is David. I encouraged him to leave this job, and turn to Christ in repentance and faith. Then he could have eternal life.

I decided to continue reading from the scripture. I noticed one other guy there looked like he wanted to read from the Bible as well. So I asked him what he wanted to read. I suggested either the Sermon on the Mount or the Gospel of John. We agreed on the Gospel of John. So I started with chapter 1, he took 2 and we alternated back and forth. For about two hours the Gospel was read. The security guard heard the whole thing and I also explained the Gospel to him.

Please pray that David will repent and trust Jesus. Please pray for those that go regularly to these clinics to stand in the gap for the unborn babies that are being murdered. Please pray for changed hearts of the doctors and staff at these clinics. Please pray that those considering abortion would reconsider, surrender to Jesus Christ and receive eternal life.

1. What are three basic items found on a tombstone?
2. A hundred and fifty years from now will it matter if you _______ (made a million dollars, graduated college, drove a fancy car, etc.)?
3. What then? What then? What Then?…
4. Eternity is an awfully long time. Make sure you have the right answer.
5. Do you realize there is a 100% chance you will die? And do you realize that you will be dead a whole lot longer than you will be alive?
6. Can you guarantee that you will wake up tomorrow morning?
7. BIBLE: Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth
8. I care where you spend eternity. (or) It is very important to me where you spend eternity.

1. Where are you on your spiritual journey? (or) What is happening spiritually in your life?
2. If you died tonight, are you 100% sure (or “certain”) that you would go to Heaven?
3. If you were to die tonight and stand in front of God, and He asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” what would you tell Him?
4. When you die what do you think is on the other side? What do you think is out there when you walk out of here?
5. Why do you wear that cross?
6. Do you want to go to Heaven?
7. What is the most important thing in the world to you? On the day that you die, what do you think will be the most important thing to you?

1. What do you mean by that?
2. How do you know that to be true?
3. Where do you get your information?
4. What if you are wrong?