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Thursday, March 4th is the first Thursday of the month. We will meet in Carrollton, Dallas, Denison, and Rockwall for prayer for our nation, leaders, and revival. Times and locations are listed below along with the local contact person.

We suggest the following verses for A.C.T.S. model for prayer. However, each group is free to use whatever prayer guide they choose.

It goes without saying that any 2020 year-end summary needs to mention that it was an unprecedented year. The pandemic impacted the health of family and friends. It impacted our personal lives postponing everything from business travel to vacations, family gatherings and weddings. It impacted how we package the monthly mailing, impacted our regularly scheduled outreaches, and even impacted people’s willingness to even take a Gospel tracts that was handed to them. However, it also presented new opportunities to share the Gospel.  Despite all the challenges and changes we take comfort in the promise of Hebrews 13:8 that “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever”.

Early on in the “shelter in place” I was out walking in my neighborhood. An elderly woman was on the other side of the street and she was very distraught about COVID. I was able to share a few Bible verses with her and let her know that no matter what happens “God is in control”. She did become more at peace while we talked and eventually she even took a tract from me and read it. It was a good reminder to me that the more chaos in the world, the more the world needs Jesus!

During the year we came out with several new Gospel tracts. Two of them in particular became among the most requested tracts we have made. The No matter who’s President, Jesus is King tract has been very popular and easy to hand out throughout the election cycle. The Fear Not tract was our prayerful answer to reaching people during the pandemic. While people are understandably fearful of COVID-19, there are many things they are fearful about. This tract features beautiful calligraphy and has been well received to alleviate a lot of fear.

We are extremely thankful for our wonderful team of volunteers who help us each month to pack all the envelopes that get mailed out. Each monthly mailing typically involves at least 15 volunteers doing everything from counting tracts, folding envelopes, packing envelopes, and sealing envelopes. As you can imagine, when you can’t meet together these logistics get even more difficult. At Bezeugen Ministries we navigated the pandemic by dividing up the mailings into smaller chunks and our volunteers took the materials to their houses so that the mailings continued going out month after month.

Understandably many people were not able to hand out as many tracts during the year due to businesses being closed and shelter in place policies across the country. We took that as an opportunity to allow people to renew their membership as bi-monthly and quarterly subscriptions so that they remain members, yet don’t get as backlogged on tracts if they are not getting out much.

As we enter 2021 we are excited about what lies ahead. In February we will present the Basic Evangelism Training Seminar online via Zoom. In March we will mail the 150th mailing of the Bezeugen Tract Club.

We appreciate your partnership with Bezeugen. Over the years we have found that for each three cents donated someone hears the Gospel! As postage rates continue to rise we strive to keep our operation volunteer based, so that donations can be used to print tracts and ship them out. We prayerfully ask you to consider an ongoing partnership with us. Would you consider a one time or recurring donation in 2021?

Thursday, February 4th, is the first Thursday of the month. We will meet for prayer for our nation, leaders and revival in four locations: Carrollton, Dallas, Rockwall, and Denison. If you live in another area and would like to host a prayer meeting at your place of business or city hall please contact us and we can add you to our distribution. Details for each location and the point of contact is below.

Suggested A.C.T.S. (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication) verses for this months prayer meeting are:

Bezeugen Ministries has moved! Effective immediately our new mailing address is Bezeugen Ministries, PO BOX 297, Denison, Texas 75021-0297. Donation envelopes with the new address have been sent out in the February mailing of the Bezeugen Tract Club. The old PO Box is still active as well. However, if you are going to contact us, please use the new address. Thanks!

Thursday, January 7th, is the first Thursday of the month. We will meet for prayer for our country, leaders, and revival. We have three locations in Dallas, Carrollton, and Rockwall. The contacts are listed below:

There is a lot to pray for. On Tuesday, January 5th, there is a run-off election for both Georgia Senate seats which will determine the split of the US Senate. On Wednesday, January 6th, a joint session of the Congress will vote to certify the electoral college. Please keep these national events in prayer even before Thursday.

Below are some suggested verses for the ACTS model of prayer.

I love Christmas Candlelight services. Always have. Always will. As a kid we went to church at 11PM on Christmas Eve, so that when the service was over it was Christmas morning! We would go home and open gifts to celebrate the gift of Christ!

Not sure why churches don’t seem to do the 11PM services these days. But, I guess it’s okay, since it’s past my bedtime anyway! LOL! But we still had candlelight service. One the Sunday before Christmas and another on Christmas Eve.

It struck me as the pastor took the candle light from the advent wreathe and spread it to others candles how the light spread through the room and illuminated it. It’s a picture of the Gospel spreading from person to person to person.

This is a perfect picture of the members of the Bezeugen Tract Club sharing the gospel person to person one at a time everyday “as you go”. But what if each person of the Bezeugen Tract Club also told another person about the Bezeugen Tract Club just once a month. The Bezeugen Tract Club would double in size every month. So next month we’d have twice as many members and reach twice as many people with the Gospel. The next month the membership would double again and we’d again reach twice as many people as we did the previous month – four times more people than the first month. Keep doing this and within six months, the Bezeugen Tract Club would have 64 times the number of members as it has today and together we would reach 64 times more people with the Gospel per month than we do currently. Keep going and after a year we’d be reaching more than four thousand times the number of people per month.

Can you commit to inviting one new member to the Bezeugen Tract Club before the end of the month? Refer your friends. Ask them to put your name in the “How you heard about the tract club” field. The existing member with the most referrals by January 1, 2021 will receive 100 Gospel tracts.

While purchasing some stamps at Five Star Storage a couple weeks ago I handed a Greatest Gift tract to the manager. She thanked me and she told me she is a Christian. I asked if she’d like more tracts to hand out and she said yes. So I gave her about 25 more greatest gift tracts. I then asked if we could put some tracts on a shelf for people to take. She agreed. So I ordered some acrylic business card holders and set up a display of tracts. Pray that people will take them that need them. Or that Christians will take them and pass them on. I also included some information about joining the Bezeugen Tract Club on the back of the Get Out of Witnessing Free card.

Today is #GivingTuesday. We invite you to give a gift to Bezeugen Ministries. All donations are used to spread the Gospel. Over the years we have calculated that for each three cents donated, someone will hear the Gospel!

We appreciate your support! We thank God for you!

Several years ago we introduced the 21 Day Challenge tract. You can read the story of the tract on the Bezeugen Tract Club site. Since most people’s new year resolutions don’t make it to February, we asked for a 21 day commitment to read the Gospel of John. Of course this can be done any time of year, but we’ve taken to doing it every January. We have an added feature now. By sending an email to 21@AfterLifeCatalog.com you can receive a reminder every day to complete the challenge right in your inbox! The 21 Day Challenge tracts will be included in the January mailing of the Bezeugen Tract Club. As you hand them out point folks to the website on the back of the card and encourage them to subscribe to the daily emails which will include information on how to read the chapter on the device (when the device has YouVersion installed), read on the web, listen, or watch the Gospel of John.

As 2020 comes to a close, let’s continue to pray for our Nation, Leaders, and Revival. The first Thursday of the month is December 3rd. Carl is starting a new group in Denison, Texas this month. The schedule for our locations is:

Each month we provide verses to recommend for use the A.C.T.S. (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication) model for prayer. Each group is free to use these verses, or their own format. The important thing is that we pray. There are so many things to be in prayer about including the certification of the election, the upcoming electoral college vote, a peaceful transition of power, the Senate run off races in Georgia, etc. Pray that people will be open to the Gospel and that many will come to know Christ.