Bezeugen BLOG

On Saturday night five of us met at the Rough Riders game in Frisco, TX for an outreach. We arrived about 90 minutes before the game. We brought plenty of Baseball Trivia tracts, bottles of water, the preaching stand, amp and the cross. We set up by the main intersection between the mall and the stadium so that we could catch a lot of foot traffic of people walking to the game. We had enough people to have three of the four corners of the intersection covered which also meant that people pretty much had to pass someone in order to get to the stadium.

While we were there, Brian and I went up to the stadium, handed out tracts and had a few one on one conversations. A couple of high school boys who go to the Catholic high school in Dallas said that their principal had told them that they were going to heaven because of their school enrollment. I suggested that the principal needed to read the Bible and asked them to do the same. They both got tracts.

Back at the corner, I read from John 3 and preached the Law and Gospel. Then Ben continued reading in John 4 and also preached. David read John 3 and 4. We also took turns standing with the cross.

In all we handed out over 500 tracts, gave out about 50 bottles of water and preached the Law and Gospel for over an hour!

A great time was had by all. We are considering an outreach to the Texas Rangers stadium in Arlington soon.

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Last week I had the opportunity to participate in Project Ezra in Austin, on the edge of the campus of the University of Texas. It was a great experience. I actually was not sure what the suggested reading for Project Ezra was. I had in my mind to go to the state capital and preach there. However, as I drove by the University of Texas, there were many people congregating and crossing Guadelupe St. So, I felt like God was telling me that this was the place. So I parked the car and walked over to the cross walk area. I had a new folding stool that I had bought the night before at Bed Bath and Beyond. This new stool is very lightweight and compact. I expect to be able to put it in my backback. On this occassion, I simply took it, my Bible and about 100 Gospel tracts.

Since I was not sure what the Project Ezra reading was for the week, I had in mind to read 1 John again since it was the reading from the week before. When I got where I was going to preach from, I sent a text message to a few friends to ask them to pray. After sending the text, I noticed on my phone that there was new email. When I pulled up the email there was a message from Project Ezra that the suggested reading was 1 Peter 1. I read over the email and then the text.

I prayed.

And then I got up on my new stool.

I read 1 Peter 1.

Then I preached the Law and the Gospel. Many people walked by and heard the preaching. Several stopped to listen. Several listened while waiting to cross the street.

When I had preached all I could, I turned to the attributes of Christ that I have pasted into the front and back of my Bible. I began reading these attributes as I have done several times in the past. I continued reading and lifting up the name of Christ.

Eventually the wind began to swirl and some clouds rolled in. A felt a couple of rain drops. Then some drops hit my Bible and the ink in my list of the Attributes of Christ started to run. I decided it was time to go.

I handed out a few more tracts on my way back to the car. As I walked, the rain steadily increased until it was pouring by the time I got to the car.

The new folding stool is available in four colors at Bed Bath and Beyond. I got mine for $14.99. The tag says that the weight limit is 300 pounds!

Since March, we’ve been planning an outreach in The Colony, TX along with First Baptist Church Hebron from the Fourth of July weekend. The events were to take place on Saturday, the 3rd. We had been to the park a few weeks prior to map out where we would set up to hand out water and Gospel tracts and preach the Gospel. The weather did not cooperate. When we realized the rain was headed that way, we moved up our meeting time and headed out to the park thinking we could get some tracts and preaching out before the weather hit. However, about 15 minutes after we arrived, it started to rain. And, not just rain, but a good old fashioned Texas downpour. We took cover and started praying for a backup plan. Mande was checking the weather map via her phone and also different towns to see where there might be another July 4th celebtration we could go to. I pulled out my phone and saw an email from Jon Speed. He had sent a message that Tim Crawford was going to Southlake Town Square. Mande confirmed the radar looked clear. I called TIm to verify they were still going. So we headed to Southlake.

When we arrived we grabbed about 500 tracts and headed out on the streets to meet up with Tim. We found him and he said, “we are out of tracts.” He had brought about 20 youth group members to teach them how to evangelize. So we gave them the tracts we had and then headed back to the car to get the rest of the ones that we had there. When we returned, we loaded up Tim’s team again.

Then we got to work handing out tracts. There were people everywhere. As we handed out tracts most would say “thanks!”
I walked up to a group of teens and handed them Bucket List tracts. Then I asked them “if you had one week to live, what things would be on your list of things to do before you die?” I thought the eyes of one girl were going to pop out of her head when I asked this. We had a good discussion and it turned out several of the kids were Christian. Then one boy asked me, “why does God send some people to hell.” So I talked with him alone and explained that because we have broken God’s Law that we deserve to go to hell and that God is just in sending us there. But, if we repent and trust Christ then He will give us eternal life. He thanked me for talking to him.

I had two really great conversations with two different groups of teens by handing them “can you name ten beers” tracts. The two conversations went a little different. Both groups named the ten beers. The first named all ten of the commandments too. The second group, got stuck on 8 commandments. What was neat was that as they tried to get the last two, they would stop people who were walking by to ask them “do you know the second commandment?” I was giving tracts to those that came by as well. Eventually I told them the last two commandments and shared the Gospel with them. The first group was soundly saved, members of the same youth group. We had a wonderful time of fellowship. The second group was mostly Christians. One Catholic girl claimed to have actually kept the Ten Commandments. I tried to explain to her that “all have sinned” but she clung to her religion.

At that point we went to grab a hamburger for dinner. While we were eating, fireworks began going off right across the street. (See picture above) We watched most of the show then headed towards the car and watched the end of the show from the parking garage.

All it all, it seems that over 3,000 tracts we distributed by our group. Please pray that all these seeds take root!

Pastor Ben reported to me that when they got home from Southlake that The Colony fireworks were just ending. So they went over there and handed out tracts and did a little preaching. Then on Sunday (4th) they went to Lewisville and handed out another 500 tracts and preached for an hour. Praise God!

For those of you waiting to receive door hangars from us, there has been a delay. The first order has been lost by UPS. We are trying to get this located. I’ll post an update when we have a better idea of when we will have the door hangars to send out.