Greatest Gift Outreach

Starting December 1st, we will be doing the Gospel Guy every day  Monday-Friday.  We ask that you please keep this outreach we are calling "The Greatest Gift" in your prayers.  We are asking the Lord for people to come to know Christ every day.  Pray for endurance, wisdom, and the lost to come to know Jesus.  All the network churches that are a part of the GGN will be taking part as well.  Its going to be awesome.

Last office Picture...I promise.

I figured I would keep you all up to date on the progress of making the GGN office more comfortable.  Above is a handmade table and world map frame made by my co worker Ryan.  This guy is so gifted and we are blessed to reap the benefits of his craftsmanship!  

Every week we write something on our chalkboard and leave it for all passer byes to see.  This little sign has led people to stop on it and chat.  

More and more are hitting the streets

The above picture is of some students from YWAM Salem's Introductory to Leadership School (ILS).  Every Friday we take these guys out on the streets to do the Gospel Guy.  It is so cool to see these students challenge themselves to share the Gospel.  In the picture above there are Americans, Koreans, Brazilians and a Canadian.  The nations are meeting in the GG office and then hitting the streets of our city!  I did some math the other day, and apparently we have a GG person on the streets for around 45 hours every week here in Salem.  This is amazing.

The above picture is of some ILS students praying for 4 siblings on the streets.  These four teenagers have been in church their whole lives, When our team asked them what the Gospel was, they had no idea.  They had never heard the Gospel.  Today on the street was their first time ever hearing a clear Gospel presentation.

Teaching in the Korean DTS

This past week I taught on evangelism in the fall Korean DTS here at YWAM Salem.  All these students are from Korea and it was an awesome time.  This was my first time speaking in a Korean school, and my first time speaking with translation since our days in Russia.  The Korean students were eager to learn and taught me many things as well.  Theses students were truly loving people, eager to know God more and make him known to the nations.  The highlight for me for the week was when they sang me a "Korean Blessing Song"...I attached it below.  Truly a humbling way to thank me for speaking in the school.  

Further Education

Over the past few months, I have been praying about and considering getting more training and education to help me in ministry, and in particular with the Gospel Guy Network and the School of Evangelism and Apologetics I run in the fall. To be honest, I have kind of "hit a plateau" and feel the need to be challenged more and get more schooling.  I have toyed around with going for my masters, but after prayer and thought, now is no the time.  So, I have decided to take an Apologetics program through Biola University.  It is a course that in the end will give me a "Certificate of Christian Apologetics" and if I decided later on to go for my masters, it would be credited to that.  It is your basic go at your own pace type of distance learning.  I will be doing it with a co worker of mine which I am real excited about as it will help me stay accountable.  The Lord has provided the funds for me to do the course through the generosity of His people, and I am truly grateful.  If your interested in checking it out just go to http://www.biola.edu/academics/sas/apologetics/certificate/.   I would appreciate your prayers for me as I do this course, and that what I learn will help me further His kingdom in my life, and the ministry we have here in Oregon.

Maybe I Should of Been a Decorator?

Just thought I would send a picture of how the office is slowly coming together.  We hung up some old pallads and painting some pretty convicting scriptures on them.  Never thoughtt I would be on the cutting edge of interior design.

Each week we have a different thought or question that people who walk by see daily

Table Talk Thursday

The above picture is of a table in our Gospel Guy Network office my co worker Ryan made.  He intentionally took some old wood that was to be thrown out and through his awesome giftings, made a great table out of it. We call it the Redemption Table.  Anyway, I would like you all to begin to pray for ministry that will be happening around this table on Thursdays...it is something we are going to call Table Talk.  Every Thursday, we will be inviting non Christians to come in and dialogue with us in regards to spiritual matters.  This upcoming Thursday, we will be discussing, "Who is God?" with someone from the Christian Science cult.  I am very much looking forward to these times together.  Please begin to pray that over time, people would come to know the truth via the discussions we have with them around this table.