The Lord cleared the skies for us this morning. It was pouring, until we got out of the car, which kept our Gospel tracts from being a soggy mess. We handed out over 300 tracts, and talked one-2-one to dozens of people. It was a great time of sharing the Gospel with people, and it really lightened the mood when I offered them candy canes or smarties. We were also encouraged by several Christians when they saw what we were doing.
Praise God!
Friday, November 25, 2011
Saturday, November 12, 2011
A Time of Refreshing
It was so refreshing to talk with a gal today, who was receptive to the Gospel. She had a cursory understanding of the Gospel. She tracked with everything we told her about the grace of God that was offered to her by way of Christ on the cross. She admitted not only that she would be guilty if she stood before God, and that if she got what she deserved, it wouldn't be heaven, but she made a commitment to read the Gospel of John.
I think we had a couple of other refreshing conversations, as we meandered through downtown Everett, this afternoon. We even spent some time at the "Occupy Everett" encampment at the Snohomish County seat, where we got to spend a long time with Don, the athiest.
God is so good, to have honored us with the task of sharing the Gospel with people. "There is no other name under heaven, given among men, by which we are saved."
God bless...
P.S. we definitely weren't fair-weather evangelists today... brrrr!
I think we had a couple of other refreshing conversations, as we meandered through downtown Everett, this afternoon. We even spent some time at the "Occupy Everett" encampment at the Snohomish County seat, where we got to spend a long time with Don, the athiest.
God is so good, to have honored us with the task of sharing the Gospel with people. "There is no other name under heaven, given among men, by which we are saved."
God bless...
P.S. we definitely weren't fair-weather evangelists today... brrrr!
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Out With The Calvary Everett Street Team
Saturday before last, going door to door with the Calvary Everett Street Team, was a truly wonderful experience. No doors slammed in our face.
We had the opportunity to speak at-length with Liz. Her first remark, when we invited here to church, was no thank you, she would never go to church. You almost wonder if someone is joking when they say something like that. Anyways, I got to share the Gospel with her in testimonial form.
Then Denise, Thomas and I went to downtown Everett, and handed out tracts and spoke to several people. We even went into a small art shop, and gave the proprietor a tract and tried to witness, but she would have none of it. The reason we went into this art shop, was that they had a piece of 'art' in the window, depicting a bunny rabbit, all bloodied and battered on a cross. It was very blasphemous and offensive.
I'm looking forward to more outings with the Calvary Everett Street Team.
God bless...
We had the opportunity to speak at-length with Liz. Her first remark, when we invited here to church, was no thank you, she would never go to church. You almost wonder if someone is joking when they say something like that. Anyways, I got to share the Gospel with her in testimonial form.
Then Denise, Thomas and I went to downtown Everett, and handed out tracts and spoke to several people. We even went into a small art shop, and gave the proprietor a tract and tried to witness, but she would have none of it. The reason we went into this art shop, was that they had a piece of 'art' in the window, depicting a bunny rabbit, all bloodied and battered on a cross. It was very blasphemous and offensive.
I'm looking forward to more outings with the Calvary Everett Street Team.
God bless...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Where's the Shrimp?
A few weeks ago, I got a text from our prison ministry band leader, asking me if I would be interested in performing with the band at 'Shrimpfest' over Memorial Day weekend. At first, I thought it was a joke. But I thought, how could this be a joke... Sure enough, there is such a thing as Shrimpfest. Likewise, the prison band had been invited to perform for two hours.
I put my tongue in my cheek, when I told people, we got our first paid gig. I thought the pay was going to be free admittance to Shrimpfest. Well, in fact we did get a check to split amongst the six of us, but we decided to return the money and earn some heavenly dividends.
The gig turned out beautifully in every way. We were afraid that the possibility of rain might dampen the situation, but the LORD rolled back the clouds and gave us warm, sunshine the whole time.
The music was VERY well received. I saw lots of people bee-bopping to the music. We played a bunch of worship songs as well as a bunch of Christian songs you'd hear on the radio. The cutest thing was a man who wheeled his son (or grandson) in a stroller guy up in front of the stage and the little tot was bouncing around in his seat, just enjoying the music.
Also, my heart was touched when a gal came up with her son, between songs, and complimented our music (in a strong southern drawl), and asked if we had any CD's out. That was very sweet of her.
It was a real blessing and a privilege to stand on stage with a bunch of real musicians. As always, Bill carried us... He is extremely gifted!
God bless...
I put my tongue in my cheek, when I told people, we got our first paid gig. I thought the pay was going to be free admittance to Shrimpfest. Well, in fact we did get a check to split amongst the six of us, but we decided to return the money and earn some heavenly dividends.
The gig turned out beautifully in every way. We were afraid that the possibility of rain might dampen the situation, but the LORD rolled back the clouds and gave us warm, sunshine the whole time.
The music was VERY well received. I saw lots of people bee-bopping to the music. We played a bunch of worship songs as well as a bunch of Christian songs you'd hear on the radio. The cutest thing was a man who wheeled his son (or grandson) in a stroller guy up in front of the stage and the little tot was bouncing around in his seat, just enjoying the music.
Also, my heart was touched when a gal came up with her son, between songs, and complimented our music (in a strong southern drawl), and asked if we had any CD's out. That was very sweet of her.
It was a real blessing and a privilege to stand on stage with a bunch of real musicians. As always, Bill carried us... He is extremely gifted!
God bless...
Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Winning Evangelization at Comcast Arena
Tonight, Charlie Sheen is in town doing his stand-up routine at the Comcast Arena. This provided a great opportunity to hand out Billion and Trillion dollar bills to the event-goers.
We were met with mostly warm, receptive responses. Dan was able to share the full gospel with several people and we prayed for one drunk guy to overcome his addiction.
There were lots of TV cameras and radio stations represented at the event. I even had the privilege of handing a gospel tract to Sabra Gertsch of KOMO 4 news.
Praise God. All glory goes to Him. By His goodness and mercy he blessed us and protected us tonight as we went to the streets to proclaim the Gospel.
God bless...
We were met with mostly warm, receptive responses. Dan was able to share the full gospel with several people and we prayed for one drunk guy to overcome his addiction.
There were lots of TV cameras and radio stations represented at the event. I even had the privilege of handing a gospel tract to Sabra Gertsch of KOMO 4 news.
Praise God. All glory goes to Him. By His goodness and mercy he blessed us and protected us tonight as we went to the streets to proclaim the Gospel.
God bless...
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Last Night Was Just Wow!
Ron, Wayne and I went to Mukilteo beach last night to hand out gospel tracts and do some evangelizing. We had intended on going to the Tilted Thunder Rail Birds, roller derby at Comcast Arena in Everett, to do the same, only, my bad, I got my schedule wrong, and we missed that by a couple of hours.
[The night before, Julie and I had driven by the mukilteo lighthouse and beach, and noticed how packed it was and we thought, boy what an opportunity for evangelizing.]
The LORD went before us in every way last night. The parking lot was full, but we got a spot right up in the front. We got out of the car, gathered our tracts and Gospel's of John (which we get for free from http://www.pocketpower.org).
We handed out at least three hundred tracts among the three of us and at least a couple dozen Gospels of John. As well, we had the privilege to have in depth conversations with around twenty different young people. We were totally blessed!
All the conversations were really amazing, to have people basically let us preach the gospel to them, but one stands out in my mind.
We were on the sand, talking with an early twenties couple. They were a really nice couple (very handsome and polite). After sharing with them for a while, Mark tried to justify himself by saying something to the effect, "won't God let someone into heaven, although they sinned, if they do a lot more good things." I was able to share with him how that was an attempt to bribe the Judge, and there would still be justice to serve. He seemed to understand what I said. I asked him to consider what we had talked about and encouraged him to read the Gospel of John. He said he was going to read it.
All in all it was very encouraging. We even saw Daniel Lefotu and Chris McAuliffe. Daniel was stoke about the possibility of doing a Rap outreach there.
God bless...
Keith
[The night before, Julie and I had driven by the mukilteo lighthouse and beach, and noticed how packed it was and we thought, boy what an opportunity for evangelizing.]
The LORD went before us in every way last night. The parking lot was full, but we got a spot right up in the front. We got out of the car, gathered our tracts and Gospel's of John (which we get for free from http://www.pocketpower.org).
We handed out at least three hundred tracts among the three of us and at least a couple dozen Gospels of John. As well, we had the privilege to have in depth conversations with around twenty different young people. We were totally blessed!
All the conversations were really amazing, to have people basically let us preach the gospel to them, but one stands out in my mind.
We were on the sand, talking with an early twenties couple. They were a really nice couple (very handsome and polite). After sharing with them for a while, Mark tried to justify himself by saying something to the effect, "won't God let someone into heaven, although they sinned, if they do a lot more good things." I was able to share with him how that was an attempt to bribe the Judge, and there would still be justice to serve. He seemed to understand what I said. I asked him to consider what we had talked about and encouraged him to read the Gospel of John. He said he was going to read it.
All in all it was very encouraging. We even saw Daniel Lefotu and Chris McAuliffe. Daniel was stoke about the possibility of doing a Rap outreach there.
God bless...
Keith
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