After work I drove to Fair Park for a come and go prayer meeting at the State Fair Gospel booth. For the past five years I have brought a team of laborers to the booth to share the Gospel one day of the 24 day State Fair. This year I will lead a team on October 17th. The fair kicks off on Friday, September 25th and runs through Sunday October 18th. An estimated 3.5 million visitors will attend the fair making it the largest state fair in the country and one of the largest witnessing venues you could imagine. A booth is setup on Nimitz Blvd across the street from a row of fried food vendors and just a few hundred feet from the historic Cotton Bowl stadium. Each day during the fair people will come up to the booth to take the Million Dollar Eye test, get diagnosed by a spiritual doctor and then hear the only cure is through the life giving blood of Jesus! Please keep this outreach in your prayers.
So as I left the prayer meeting I had the chance to talk to a few people. I gave a Fried at the Fair tract to one of the vendors who was testing their food setup. I gave a football trivia tract to one of the workers sitting in a golf card. And I gave camo cards(from the September mailing of the Bezeugen Tract Club) to two guys who were from IBM and working on setting up the network for the coupon sales booth.
My wife and I got to have an impromtu date night! Went to a nice restaurant for dinner. I left a tract at the check in and gave an “Who is described by” to the hostess. After dinner I left a John 3:16 tract with a generous tip.
I stopped for gas on the way home and put two football trivia tracts in the gas pump credit card slots of the pump I was at and the one on the other side of the island. As I was walking around to get back in my car, I noticed a guy standing there pumping gas. I walked over, said hello and handed him a football trivia tract. I said, “Here is some football trivia for you. It has the Gospel on the back.” He said thanks and took it. As I walked off he was reading it!
I decided to try something fun today. I posted a picture on Facebook of four tracts from the September mailing of the Bezeugen tract Club and asked people to pick which one I should hand out. I got a couple of responses, but not until after my wife and I decided to go to a convenience store to purchase a drink of water. While we were there they had ice cream so I decided to have one! At the check out there were two cashiers. I think one was in training. I took the four tracts along with a fifth that will be in the November mailing and laid them out in front of the cashiers. I said, “I have a gift for yuo. You can pick which ever one of these you’d like.” She picked the cancer awareness saying that it was a really important message. He picked play by the rules. I quickly explained that they both are the same – based on the message on the back. They thanked me and we returned to the park to pick up our son from Cross Country practice.
At the park I checked the Facebook posts and there were comments to hand out a play by the rules. Done! But there was also a comment to hand out a Camo Card. So I went up to a guy in the park and said, “have you got your camo card?” He said no and I handed him one. This part is kind of funny, and nothing bad is meant by it, but a new tract we have is called the “MyCard”. You’ll see it in the November mailing of the Bezeugen tract Club. I jokingly hand it to people as if it is my business card. So after handing him the camo card, I looked at his girlfriend and said, “here is MyCard”. She laughed, took it and said thanks!
Went to work and back and did not have the opportunity to share the Gospel with anyone. When I got home, I went through the mail and found several business reply envelopes. So I put camo cards into each of them and put them in the mailbox.
My wife and I went to see War Room. Handed out a Camo Card to the cashier. Also gave out several other tracts at the snack bar, to the ticket tacker, etc!
The movie is very well done. I’d suggest you take time to go see it. Not only is the Gospel clearly presented, but we also see the power of God at work in people’s lives, people repenting of sin, demonstrating forgiveness and discipling each other!
I went to Fuzzy’s Taco Shop today for lunch. I held out three tracts (Cancer Awareness, Play by the Rules and Camo Card) from the September mailing to the cashier and asked her to pick one. She looked at them and handed me the Camo Card back. I said, i’ts fine if you want to keep two. She took the Camo Card back and looked it over a bit more. Then asked what they are about. I told her they all had the Gospel on the back. She smiled and said that was neat. I told her she could keep two if she wanted to and she could even give one of those away to someone else if she wanted to. So again she handed the Camo Card back and kept the other two!
As I ate my lunch I left a Football Trivia tract on the table!
Even when I got to Chick-Fil-A I hand out tracts. Some say it is not necessary because “everyone who works there is already a Christian.” I don’t know if they are a Christian or not, especially until talking to them. And handing them a tract is an easy way to get them talking.
I gave a Who is described by the the cashier.
One of the supporters of Bezeugen and I were having a conversation while we ate dinner. Several employees came over to ask if we needed anything, refill our drinks etc. One of them came several times. We told her about the ministry. I gave her a Thank You tract for her service. When she came back another time we told her more about the tract club. She told us she is in high school and is interested in sharing her faith. I told her how my son used tracts as bookmarks when he was in high school and that lead to the opportunity to share the tracts with the other students.
She was interested. Turns out we had some extra tract club envelopes with us. So we offered her one and told her that we’d send them each month if she enrolled. She was so excited.
brought a team of laborers to the booth to share the Gospel one day of the 24 day State Fair. This year I will lead a team on October 17th. The fair kicks off on Friday, September 25th and runs through Sunday October 18th. An estimated 3.5 million visitors will attend the fair making it the largest state fair in the country and one of the largest witnessing venues you could imagine. A booth is setup on Nimitz Blvd across the street from a row of fried food vendors and just a few hundred feet from the historic Cotton Bowl stadium. Each day during the fair people will come up to the booth to take the Million Dollar Eye test, get diagnosed by a spiritual doctor and then hear the only cure is through the life giving blood of Jesus! Please keep this outreach in your prayers.
