Team Harvest Blog

Honestly, the Superbowl outreach was a circus. There were so many evangelists there; it was difficult to get in an intimate one2one conversation without someone else running up and interrupting. We were in Ybor City the second night; the sun was too bright for me, but I noticed on the other side of the street it was shady without too many people walking around. I asked my partner Debbie if she would walk with me on the other side of the street. It was very cold, in the shade; hence the lack of pedestrians. We passed a couple of scientologists passing out booklets stating ”The path to happiness” was in them.  Debbie stopped to ask the man, “Why do you believe this pamplet to be true?”  He immediately went into a defensive posture, both hands up and said, “I believe what I believe, you believe what you believe and let us leave it at that.” All of the sudden, something stood up inside of me (this is the only way to describe the feeling) and took notice. (more…)

When I got to the family worship room at Calvary Chapel St. Pete for prayer before we went out on the streets to witrness Friday night, there were only 3 people there. I was immediately discouraged! I thought… what a nice night, why aren’t there more laborers in the field? They were some really good friends of mine there however. Mike, who goes to the courthouse every week to preach the gospel, and Joshua, our original tractinator, who has recently returned from Patmos.

I was encouraged when one by one as we prayed, God’s solders trickled in to a little bigger army of 14 by the time we were done. Like any one in a band of solders, I looked around and I thought, it’s a good crew, a good mix of God’s people who made themselves available to whatever the night might bring. (more…)

One of the biggest battles in an evangelist walk is discouragement. As I have surfed secular television and read secular books, the blinded world out there seems oh so large. The mountains are tall and I am just me. The weight of the unbelief seems to fall on me like a ton of bricks.

I like to encourage myself with the Truth contain in the scriptures…”the battle is the Lords”, and “it is not by my might, but the Lord God is mighty in battle and goes before me”. But my evangelist friends, it is a battle, and there is laboring involved.

I was walking down the brightly lit halls this morning of Manatee Memorial Hospital, and through the lobby and there was a 42 inch high definition television showing some really creepy cartoons in big color. The modern cartoons the enemy has laid on children’s small minds are dark and malicious. I was aghast. The weight of another brick on my heart. (more…)