602 Make First-Time Choices for Christ at Youth Outreach in Louisiana: ‘Nice Transfer of God’

A whole lot of younger folks hungry for God packed out a soccer stadium in Denham, Louisiana final week to listen to the gospel message of Christ. 

A handful of native church buildings with the Jap Louisiana Baptist Affiliation hosted the GO TELL AMERICA Campaign in partnership with evangelist Rick Gage, founding father of GO TELL Ministries in Duluth, Ga.

Leaders with the Baptist affiliation mentioned they felt a powerful want to achieve folks exterior a church setting.

“The preparation for the campaign has concerned a lot work and God has reached throughout denominational traces in our parish to unite His church on this mission,” Rev. Leo Miller, pastor at First Baptist Church of Denham Springs informed the Baptist Message. 

“We agreed to unite in reaching the misplaced in our parish by setting apart political and theological variations. We’re united in our widespread beliefs that salvation is in Jesus alone and the Phrase of God is our authority. What a pleasure it has been to hope collectively, serve collectively, and share the wonderful gospel of Jesus Christ collectively,” he continued. 

Almost 500 folks had been recruited to assist set up the hassle and one other 500 had been assigned to hope for the occasion. 

Miller says church buildings labored collectively to ship door hanger luggage containing a gospel tract, DVD of the Jesus Movie, and occasion flyer to greater than 45,000 houses within the space.

Phrase bought out and tons of confirmed as much as the Denham Springs Excessive Faculty soccer stadium from March 16-19.

The GO TELL AMERICA Campaign featured a variety of audio system together with Al Robertson,the oldest son of Duck Dynasty’s Phil and Kay Robertson; LSU quarterback Garrett Nussmeier; Adrian Despres, former College of South Carolina soccer crew chaplain and present speaker with Forge Ministries, and plenty of others. 
 

Throughout one occasion, Gage and Freeman spoke to an estimated crowd of 8,000 folks in 11 native colleges for a personality improvement workshop known as “On Monitor.”

On the finish of the four-day campaign, 1,136 folks made selections for Christ, with 602 folks making first-time selections to just accept Christ, Chris Palmer, GO TELL director of ministry outreach, informed the Baptist Message.

“It is simply been a terrific transfer of God, and it is an space that was ripe for a harvest,” Gage shared after the occasion. “We’re seeing pockets of revival throughout the nation and a terrific transfer of God among the many youthful era.

Gage says he holds these crusades as a result of everybody wants the chance to listen to the Gospel. 

“The necessity and urgency to evangelize the unsaved have by no means been better,” he informed AN17-TV. “Life is temporary. Life is unsure. Dying is certain. And Christ could seem at any second.”

“The very last thing Christ directed His mates to do earlier than He left the earth was to share the gospel with the entire world,” Gage added. “Not solely does this directive nonetheless exist, however we imagine it’s to be simply as a lot our No. 1 purpose within the twenty first century because it was within the first.”

The outreach has impacted many locally, together with leaders. 

“To see the scholars fill the entrance was so superb,” mentioned Mike Fielding, minister of youth with Reside Oak Baptist Church, Denham Springs, and youth crew co-chairman. “My coronary heart was beating watching in actual time as hearts had been surrendered to a God who sacrificed His personal Son for his or her sake due to His love for every of these college students. I’m nonetheless in awe.”

Palmer informed the Baptist Message the occasion actually paid off as a result of totally different church buildings coming collectively and laying the groundwork.

“It is actually the physique of Christ coming in, sowing the seeds, and now we’re reaping the harvest,” he mentioned. “Jesus mentioned the harvest is plentiful. We are available and provides the message of hope and peace by means of Jesus and the hearts are simply prepared for it.”

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