Face to Face Evangelism Internship

We are excited to start a new component in our ministry. This month, we will be starting a 12 week evangelism internship for people in our city. I am SUPER excited to see this thing started. The internship is designed to accomodate the busy lives of normal people, and will be a great asset to our city. We are matching people up with mentors from Gospel Focus who will walk alongside them the full 12 weeks. In the internship they will do 12 hours of evangelism, Temple Talks, follow up meetings, training times, memorize scripture, and even develop their own personal gospel tract. Debriefing times, and personal interaction with lost people will make this a super unique experience. We have a few people who will be our "guniea pigs" as we try this out, and our hope is that this grows into a thriving program in our city! Pray as we begin to put things in place for it. My hope is to see people who come through this and complete it then begin to take others through it. Multiplication is the idea!

Toolbox and Temple Talk

For Mays Toolbox we had a man from a ministry called "Be Bold Ministries" come and share his testimony. He was an ex gang member who came to know Christ and know runs a ministry which reaches out to gang members. This guy was shot 4 times and stabbed 11 times! His word was very encouraging and challenging to all who listened. 

Our Temple Talk this month was at the Salem Islamic Center. As it was Ramadan, we decided it appropriate to engage our Muslim friends in discussion. Turn out was less than excpected, but the discussion was deep and rich none the less. 

UFO Festival Recap

Our "Phone Home" outreach at the UFO festival went fantastic, thank you so much for your prayers! We had around 20 people join us in the outreach, and we literally hand hundreds of conversations through the day. The above picture is of our "Mother Ship" tent. All day long, we had people lined up to ask us questions about their spiritual beliefs. Hundreds of people heard the gospel!  One young lady surrendered her life to Christ, and so many seeds were planted in the hearts of people. We spoke to Satanists, Gnostics, Atheists, Pantheists, etc...the list could go on and on. For me, one of the highlights of the day was seeing a guy from a local church take a huge step and simply talk to one person. That was a huge thing for him to break out of his comfort zone and talk to a stranger. He did it! I love being able to walk alongside people in their journey of evangelism. 

Some of us were able to gather for a picture. Literally impossible to gather all those involved because of all the ministry going on!

Pastor friend of mine joined us. We had around 12 people from our home church join us. It was awesome!

One of the many thousands of different characters at the festival.

High Schoolers, and Korean DTS students

As the school year has come to an end, we finished another year of evangelism with one of our local Christian high schools. Every other week for the course of the school year we have taken these students out to do evangelism on college campuses and in our city. We look forward to next school year working with them again.

This past month we had the opportunity to take our Korean DTS students out to do evangelism. This is always a challenge given the language barrier, but with a few interpreters we got to see these students step out in boldness to proclaim the gospel. In two weeks they leave for Asia for their 2 month outreach.

Two Birthdays and a Visit from Grandpa and Grandma

From mid April to mid May my folks were in town. They sure got their fill of grandkid time. The above picture is of the first evening they were here the kids put on a home made circus for them. May also saw two birthdays as Aidan turned 15 and Abby turned 13. Time is flying bye. Our two kids who were born in the nation of Finland are now in their teens!

Aidan turned 15 on May 6th. He is our wrestler, life of the party kid.

Abby turned 13 on May 8th. She is our bookworm and baker.