Sept 28/29 show schedule

Friday Sept 28

Normal Friday show, gates open 6:30pm, currently 20% chance of rain

Saturday Sept 29 - Cowboy Night:

$5 off with code COWBOY18
Country Band Pre-Show, I assume gates open 6:30pm, currently 20% chance of rain

Sept 21/22 show results - Rainy

Rainy weekend.  Friday night show was rained out early.  Sat. night show thankfully happened but it was misty, wet, and cool all night.  Sat. we only had 2 Prayer Tent volunteers: Rudy and Gary.  We had a good-sized crowd even though Youth Night was rescheduled until Oct. 6.  We passed out communion elements using some ushers and Stonewater Church volunteers.  Many ushers spent their time wiping down wet seats.  We had no visitors to the prayer tent -  likely because people were pre-occupied with staying dry and warm.  Gift shop sold lots of ponchos and  concession stand sold out of hot chocolate.  I have a few prayer requests from volunteers. 
   

Sept 21/22 show schedule

Fri. Sept 21

Normal Friday show, gates likely open 6:30pm. About 400 tickets sold so far.

We have numerous Prayer Tent volunteers not present.

Sat. Sept 22

Youth Night:

2 for 1 (Invite a friend). Musical guest: Citizen Way. 

Gates open at 5:30 PM, Citizen Way Meet & Greet at 6:00 PM, Citizen Way concert begins at 6:30 PM

Stonewater Church is sponsoring church

We may have a couple of Prayer Tent volunteers not present.

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Results of Sept 14/15 shows

Friday Sept 14 was Hispanic night, and we had a big crowd and a great preshow.  But unfortunately the show was cancelled at the end of intermission due to lots of rain.  We had perhaps 40-50 people in the prayer tent escaping the rain and we had lots of conversations, prayer and prayer requests.  

Saturday night was good in that we had no real chance of rain, and we did the entire show.  The attendance was small but we still had a few great visitors to the tent that wanted prayer.  

Lessons learned and notes from this weekend:
- Thanks to our regular Sat volunteers from the Hispanic church in Granbury!  They are real purposeful: they put a prayer card and Spanish tract in Spanish Book of Johns and give some to each of their volunteers. They go to each of the 2 areas: in front of Jewish Market and in front of the Gift Shop.  They engage people in conversation and offer to receive prayer request and witness with the evangelistic materials (the first few pages of the Book of Johns are evangelistic). They are bilingual so they can communicate with both English and Spanish speakers.  They have gotten us numerous Spanish prayer requests. 
- One of us needs to stay close enough to the prayer tent entrance during shows so we can watch people entering (I plan to do this).  We have had a few people requesting prayer during shows.  
- I try to engage anyone outside around the prayer tent in conversation.  I have a clip board with prayer request cards on it.
- We need to do the following to prep playbills: Put "Granbury" label on back, and stuff with prayer request card and  donation envelope. I assume it will take about 35 mins per case of 150 playbills per person to prep.  
-  I hauled the extra cases of tracts to my home, so let me know if we are running low of something so I can bring it on the next Friday. 
-  We have fewer volunteers on Fridays so try to come if you are able. 

Sept. 14/15 show schedule

Friday Sept 14 Hispanic Night

$5 off admission with code HISPANIC18. Musical guest Jaci Velasquez will go on at 6:30 PM. Simultaneous headset translation to Spanish offered.

Gates may open about 6:00pm because of preshow starting at 6:30pm.

Sat. Sept 15

Gates likely open at the default time of 6:30pm.

We have Spanish tracts and a few of the Books of John.  Lets try to hand those out to Spanish-speaking people. Also perhaps try to hand out the English camouflage and flag Books of John to men.  I will continue ordering 30 of these Book of John booklets each month.  I currently have camouflage books on order. 

Weather forecast for Glen Rose:

Results of the Sept. 7/8 shows

RAIN!!!  Lots of it.  Friday show happened miraculously with rain before and immediately after show, but not 1 drop of rain during show.  God controlled weather on Friday and kept the Promise completely dry during the show. My wife Charlotte and other cast members were watching the weather radar and the storms would wrap around Glen Rose then come back together after passing Glen Rose. Cool huh?

The Saturday show was cancelled due to rain.  On Saturday afternoon I with help from Glenda stuffed prayer requests into playbills and put labels on playbills.  So we have enough playbills for this next weekend.  It takes 1 person about 30 minutes to prep 1 case of 150 playbills.  Each family gets 1 playbill, and if there are 2000 people in attendance for a show, we need about 1000 play bills for the show (7 cases, 3.5 hours of work per person).  I will mostly work on the playbills before and during shows, and I need some help from you, perhaps 30 mins before each show.  When we get volunteers from a partner church I will try to use some of them before show for 30 minutes prepping playbills.  

Prepping playbills is the "feet washing" part of the Prayer Team ministry: not fun but we have to do it.

The next few Promise shows without rain should be bigger attendance because people get tickets for future shows when show is cancelled. So rest and get ready.

The default gate open time is now 6:30pm instead of 6:00pm.  See below:

SCHEDULE EACH SHOW NIGHT

Click here for all events with actual schedule for each show

Before gates open - setup prayer tent, pray, train and organize partner church volunteers, prep playbills.

6:30pm – Gates normally open at 6:30pm, but check event schedule on web link above

6:30-8:00pm – Greet visitors, finish setting up tent, prayer, do same activities as at intermission for fewer people, prep playbills.

8:00pm Show starts - during show do prayer, and prep playbills if needed.

Try to thank and praise God more than you ask Him for requests.  Lets fill up our praise posters with praises; I am including these praises in the weekly prayer request emails.  Also if you hear of answered prayers when doing follow up, please let me know so I can add them to the weekly email. Know that each of you are very welcome to write up prayer requests for people you know.  Thank you all for your service and especially your prayers!

Sept 7/8 show schedule

Heroes Weekend:

Special guest speaker Taya Kyle begins at 7 PM. Free admission to veterans, active duty, first responders, etc. 50% off for accompanying family members.  

I assume gates open at 6pm.

Are single evangelism events effective? Such as the Promise

Are single evangelism events effective? Yes and No

.Extracts from BGCT Evangelism Newsletter, April 2008, article by John Randles, “An Open Letter on Event Evangelism”


Events are not effective unless believers have already been cultivating healthy trust relationships with seekers and un-churched persons. In the past, many events have been failures because no relationship building took place in advance of the event. Make friends first, then invite them to events and to a relationship with Jesus.

Events must have effective follow up. Do not do once per year VBS-type events UNLESS you have permanent follow up. Use the event to meet the people then establish and build friendships.

There is a large percentage of the population that must be reached through a post-modern intellectual and cultural paradigm. Be flexible and willing to change, listen to people, plan less and respond more to where God is working. It is not about getting the job done, but about reaching people for Christ.

Events are also beneficial to the believers. The revivals and bring a spirit of camaraderie and encouragement to the church or organization involved. We would not have enough youth pastors, pastors and missionaries if it were not for youth camps. Build up and inspire each other.

Celtic Way of Evangelism - ministry of hospitality

From Dr. George G. Hunter III, “Celtic Way of Evangelism”

I would recommend adopting the four-fold Celtic approach to preparing people for ministry. It appears to me to be vastly more sophisticated and effective than anything now being attempted in most churches.

First, every person in a monastic community spent some time in solitude, out in nature. They had a saying, "Go and sit in your cell, and your cell will teach you everything." Patrick himself discovered the presence of God, that he had learned about in the catechism, in the midst of nature. The Celts believed that time alone in nature is indispensable for triggering a God-consciousness.

Second, everyone had a soul friend. This is not a superior such as a spiritual director, but more like a peer with whom one could be totally vulnerable.

Third, most Celtic Christians were members of a small group who met weekly. Ten or fewer people were led by a person who was most chosen for his or her transparent devoutness.

Fourth, everyone was involved in the life of the monastic community's worship, and Scripture memorization, etc. A great many illiterate Celtic Christians knew all 150 psalms by heart because they rehearsed 30 psalms a day; as a community, every five days, they rehearsed all the psalms.

Everyone, in the community, was involved in ministry with seekers. At some point in their development they would be a seeker's soul friend, or they would observe and help a seeker in their small group who was discovering faith.

That fourfold approach, solitude, soul friends, small group, and ministry of the community, including ministry with seekers, appears to be a potent synergizing combination to produce contagious saints than any of the "improvements" in the last 12 centuries. What kind of ministry did the Celts have to seekers? It was, essentially, the "ministry of hospitality." The monastic community would simply admit into its ranks people who had not yet discovered the gift of faith. The community seems to have believed Christianity was more caught than taught. The people were more likely to catch it in the community of faith rather than by being left to their own devices in the world.

BE A DISCIPLE. REALLY KNOW JESUS.

How? Follow Jesus, become fishers of men, leave old life.  True discipleship should challenge our consumerism lifestyle.  A true local church is one in which you regularly meet God, and only He is glorified.

Jesus does not need us, we need Him!  Jesus is worthy of total abandonment and surrender.  There can be no casual response.  Either turn and run, or bow and worship.  When people get to really know Jesus they look really different.  Be totally satisfied in Jesus; Jesus is better than pleasure and comfort.  Entrust my financial security to Jesus. Entrust all of myself to Jesus. How to get to this point?  Continually sit at the feet of Jesus being taught by Him.

Live with radical abandonment, which is anti-social.  Leave comfort and security and pleasure.  You don’t know where you are going but you know who you are with.  Deny yourself.  Our love for Jesus should be greater than our love for anyone or anything else.  Live with joyful dependence on the grace of God.  Follow Jesus in relationship; he is our path, our life.

A private faith + a resurrected Christ is impossible.  The cost of discipleship is great but the cost of not being a disciple is greater.  The consequence of casual Christianity is Hell.

People become disciples by seeing Christ more and more.   Don’t let people become overly dependent on a teacher or preacher; keep pushing them toward Jesus. 

Verge Network Conference 2014

Results of Aug 31/Sept 1 shows

Thanks to the Prayer Team for your hard work and prayers, and enduring the heat!  Thanks for Rudy for leading us in group prayers.   Thanks to Glenda for handling follow up of prayer requests.

Attendance was reduced especially Friday because of HS football and Labor Day holiday weekend.   But we still received 11 prayer requests and had some great group prayer.   We can look ahead now to cooler temperatures and larger crowds.