The Precious Word of God

How sweet are Your words to my taste! Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth! – Psalm 119:103

It has been a week since I returned from London when the Lord sent a group of evangelists to proclaim the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ during the 2012 Summer Olympics. While I am adjusting to the “normal routine” of life, my heart still lingers in London with all that the Lord accomplished for His glory. I miss my brothers and sisters who I labored with from the States, as well as my new friends who the Lord blessed me to meet and labor beside. While I cannot possibly remember all the good things that happened during our mission, I hope I will be able to share some things the Lord has used to teach me and grow personally as a result of the trip. I’ll share two such stories in this article (note: names have been changed to protect identities).

The Cost of Following Christ 

Trafalgar Square

On Wednesday, August 1, we set up our ministry location at Trafalgar Square, a major tourist attraction adjacent to The Mall entrance to Buckingham Palace. The architecture and statues in this area were magnificent, and the vast amount of pedestrian space provided for an excellent ministry location. 100,000 people traversing the area on the day we visited would be a conservative estimate.

Robert, Jason, and I set up in the middle of the Square and it wasn’t long before we were prohibited from preaching (we couldn’t practice any religious speech or hand out literature within the park). Eventually, Robert and I found our way over to a couple of young students named Patrik and Fahim, who couldn’t have been older than 15 years old. As Patrik is from Hungary and Fahim from Saudi Arabia, we had a bit of a language barrier but they seemed to understand well enough to have a conversation.   Continue at AiroCross

A Report on Answers in Genesis’s Outreach at the Vancouver Winter Olympics

Stillwood Camp, the “home” for the Answers in Genesis witnessing team (110 volunteers) that gathered for a special outreach at the Vancouver Winter Olympics became suddenly still over the weekend, as I was the last person to board the bus that left our team’s ministry haven. I reflected on the 10-day mission, where people coming from 16 states and three countries bonded as a team to take the message of the gospel to the streets of Vancouver, host of the Olympic Games that had just concluded.

The local residents and the international sports fans who assembled in Vancouver were very hospitable to our witnessing team. Over 92,000 people stopped to take our specially produced evangelistic booklets, “The Gold Rush,” and many paused to hear a gospel message from our team members. Our group included over a dozen teenagers, plus many young adults in their twenties. Also, six team members were veterans of five Olympic Games outreaches. The “rookies” who came with some timidity—and perhaps some fear—found that those feelings did not last long as they hit the streets on Monday morning. God gave them what I would call “a holy boldness” to speak with sports fans who came to beautiful Vancouver from all over the world. Read the rest HERE

Olympic Glory - or not