Pastor of my dreams - Baptist Bible Tribune

N E W SFellowship NewsChurches had great Christmas outreach in 2008December 2008Christmas dinner theaterCrossroads MinistriesFinleyville, PAPastor John ArnoldI woke up on Tuesday singing “FourTickets to Christmas.” Our 2008 editionof the Christmas Dinner Theater wasa blessed outreach opportunity, and1,100 people came to enjoy a cateredmeal and musical drama over thecourse of four evenings.The program was developed overthe course of three and a half months.It is the largest outreach of the year forour church.We asked our people to invite theircoworkers, employees, and neighbors.Sandy and Ron invited their neighborhoodand brought 63 neighbors. Afterthe event, they invited the entire groupto their house.We have been praying for the carcruise community for a few years andinvited 11 couples to be our guests;they all came. From these 11 families,three have recently come to Christ.After Friday’s presentation, Dave,builder of a beautiful 1956 Chevrolet,came to me and threw his arms aroundme, weeping and thanking us for allwe have done to introduce his family toChrist. His family is now working theirway through the Purpose Driven Life.Each family is invited to pose fora Christmas picture in a beautiful fireplacesetting. The picture is then sentto the family and is always a hit. Manywho attend the musical each Christmasare unchurched and at the end of theprogram the gospel is always presented.We also wrote the gospel into thedrama. Our people are strong believersin this yearly outreach because thereare a number of families in our churchwho were reached at a previous Christmasevent.Largest attendance in three yearsGentle Shepherd Baptist ChurchLincoln, NEPastor Gary FullerWe had the largest attendance we’vehad for maybe three years. Almostdouble a normal Sunday. In fact,the past eight weeks have been thebest run in attendance for over threeyears. We had seven saved, six of themadults! Add to that, we had eight adultsprofess Christ earlier in the week as aresult of a funeral.We had a young lady attend yester-32 Baptist Bible Tribune [ February 2009 ]