Seeking

Our SWAT team is back from our mission with the Harvest Crusade in Anaheim 2018.  The mission was fruitful, productive, exciting, encouraging, physically/mentally/emotionally draining, spiritually invigorating.  There was spiritual warfare, laughter, tears, joy, intense prayer, unity, and a laser focus on the guidance of the Holy Spirit to share the love and hope of Jesus Christ.  Hopefully, some of these words will enable you to picture the AWESOME work God did in Anaheim this week August 16-19. Where to start…which story to tell you about… they were all diverse, unique, and divinely appointed.  Let me start by telling you that God allowed our team to bring 63 people to a commitment or re-commitment to Christ.  Additionally, keep in mind that the majority of the time our team was successful in sharing the gospel and leaving people with something to consider.  It reminded me of a passage I read recently in my devo, 1 Corinthians 3:6-9, where some pl...

A fellow Swatian and I were walking back from lunch at the a mall in Dallas Texas. I was late Saturday afternoon and about to wrap up our day.  When we see this young African American man from afar sitting on a white bench alone.  As we get closer we notice he’s sharply dressed, wearing a navy blue suite, red tie and has his earbuds on.  He’s tuned out on what’s going on, but as we approach, My Swatian cohort engages the young man and we introduce ourselves to him.  Anthony was his name, he was 25 and was very warm and welcoming.  We told him about harvest America and invited him to come out to the event.  He hadn’t heard of the event so we began to share what the event was about.  There was going to be a concert with a couple of Christian bands and following that our pastor was going to be sharing the gospel. We explained that he was going to be talking about God, and his Son Jesus.  How he sent his one and only son on a rescue mission to ...