Joe grew up in Shillington, Pa and attended First EC Church of Reading. He is a 1978 graduate of Governor Mifflin High School. In 1982, he received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics from Millersville University. In the spring of 1982 as a senior in college, Joe committed his life to Jesus Christ. Upon graduation, Joe began his career as an accountant in Trenton, NJ. During this time, he attended Newtown Community Church in Newtown, PA. While attending this church, Joe felt the call to full time ministry.
He left his job to attend Moody Bible Institute for a 3-week seminar on Urban Evangelism with plans to attend Evangelical Seminary in the fall of 1984. When Joe returned from Moody, he began a street ministry in the city of Reading called Inner City Campaigners. From this street ministry, an outreach to children and teens began at First EC of Reading called The Source. This ministry continued from 1984 to 1988 when Joe moved to Philadelphia, PA. Joe began his theological studies at Evangelical in 1984 and ended in 1987. During this time, Joe became a commissioned missionary and a licensed preacher in the Evangelical Congregational Church in May of 1985.
In 1985, Joe and Wendy met at Evangelical Seminary while working on his Maters of Divinity studies. They were married at the chapel at Evangelical on March 22, 1986. Joe and Wendy have five sons. Jared(1987), Seth(1989), Ethan(1989), Aaron(1991) and Adam(1984). The boys were primarily home schooled from 1991 to 2013. Both Jared and Seth serve in The U.S. Coast Guard. Ethan is a career firefighter/paramedic in Currituck County, North Carolina. Aaron is employed at Wellesley Assisted care Facility as a food services manager. Adam serves in the U.S. Air Force. Joe and Wendy have been blessed with six grandchildren named: Forest, Joseph Conner, Morgan, Savannah and Jackson.
In 1988, Joe and Wendy moved to Philadelphia to begin an association With Open Air Campaigners. During this time, they worked in an internship status with this mission board. The ministry of Open Air Campaigners is to do the work of Evangelism and to train others in Evangelism in an urban setting. This association lasted until 1992 when Joe resigned because of doctrinal issues that conflicted with the EC Church. Upon resolution of the proposed doctrinal changes within OAC, Joe served as an associate evangelist with them until 2000.
Joe now serves on the board of directors of OAC, Inc. At this point Joe became one of the few Evangelical Congregational Church Denominational missionaries, which is a status that continued until 2008. In 1993, Joe established a ministry called Open Air Ministries-Philadelphia. Now Joe has formed his own 501c non-profit corporation called Open Air Ministries, Inc from 2009 until the present day.
Joe’s ministry is primarily evangelistic by nature. Outreach is conducted at bus stops, subways, college campuses, center city, parades, events, neighborhoods, parks and other areas in and around the Metro Philadelphia Area. Joe does weekly outreach in Camden, NJ and in the summer conducts outreach at the New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware beach resorts. Through the years, Joe has been involved in the Philadelphia Port Ministry from 1988 to 2001. Also, much outreach has been done in inner city neighborhoods with children. Joe was a co-pastor for Metro Kids an outdoor kid’s church in various locations in Philadelphia from 2007 to 2011. Many times a year Joe travels to national events such as Mardi Gras, Indy 500, Spring Break Florida, Senior Week in Ocean City, MD and others to share the gospel.
Another large part of Joe’s work is training others in evangelism. Joe spends a number of weeks each year training youth groups, college students, missionary candidates and others in evangelism. Some of these groups spend time with in Philly for a day or a week. The summer is especially busy with hosting these teams, including a number of EC Church youth groups. Joe and Wendy and Aaron live in Folcroft, which is in Delaware County, PA. Folcroft is located very close to the Philadelphia Airport. They attend Crossroads Community Church, which is in Upper Darby.
Joe Tracting and Sign Holding.
Joe using the Open Air Campaigners Board to Reveal the Gospel
The Lord called me by His sovereign grace in 2003. All of my childhood and young adult life I had been raised in a God-fearing family, but would not have called myself a true child of God until my conversion. Before my conversion I was living a rebellious life. There is no need for the details of my sin, but needless to say, I was in the world and the lust thereof. The pivotal moment in my life that lead me to Christ was a near-death car wreck.
One evening in the fall of 2003, a friend of mine and I were just celebrating the Chicago Cubs winning there division when we decided to go down town to the local taverns. I had hopped into my Camaro and he followed along in his car, as well. We found ourselves racing down a winding road when I lost control of my car and slammed into a 4×4 mailbox post and three consecutive trees. After the car had stopped, I managed to get out of the car, but immediately felt like I couldn’t breathe. I proceeded to cough to catch my breath, but coughed up blood. At about this time the neighbor, whose trees I damaged, had called an Ambulance. As they approached the scene of the accident the paramedics pulled over and pleaded with me to get in so they could examine me to see how bad I was injured.
I hesitated at first, but I then concluded that I should go to just make sure I would be alright. While I was in the Ambulance, the paramedic said to me, “Boy, you are rather lucky to be walking away from that one.” In my response, I said, Yes, God saved me from that. It was at that moment that the words that I just spoke were true words. I broke down in tears in the Ambulance as I realized that it was the Lord’s divine intervention that I was walking away from that accident. I believe that had I died in that crash, I would have died in my sins and been a recipient of God’s wrath for all of eternity.
After the wreck I began to seek godly books and movies. The Bible was my first approach as the ultimate source of truth, but I also began watching a show called the Way of the Master on TBN. It was through this ministry that I realized that I needed to repent of my sin and surrender to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. It was in 2004 when I started developing a passion for reaching out to the lost via means of evangelism. It was because of the ministry of Ray Comfort that I found confidence in how to share the gospel with those around me.
In 2008 I had the privilege to attend the 4th Ambassador Academy with my wife. At the Academy, we were trained on how to effectively evangelize via one-to-one conversations and open-air preaching. Ever since we returned from that experience I have been actively growing in my walk with the Lord to routinely evangelize on a weekly basis.
The Lord has opened the doors for me to be part of many evangelism outreaches and opportunities. I have attended five Super Bowl Outreaches with SFOI, a handful of times at the Kentucky Derby Outreach, and many trips to Chicago with The Chicago Evangelism Team. The Lord has blessed me with a supportive wife, Cheri Hoffman, and two wonderful twin boys, Levi and Isaac. My hope and desire is to continue to pursue more part-time evangelism and Lord willing be going full-time someday soon.
Justin bringing Gods truth at a bus stop.
Justin having a loving conversation with his neighbor
Fans like the ones in this picture can have several labels: extreme, crazy, zealous or funny. Either way they are all ultimately souls, descendants of Adam, who need to be reconciled to God.
Often in our day we are too familiar with sports and don’t see sports fans as souls who need to be born again and thereby become new creatures as Paul says in 2 Cor. 5:17-18 as necessary for salvation.
But you can’t fall for the great temptation to ignore the fans and focus on other groups of people who would ‘appear’ on the outside to need salvation more.
No you must preach the Words of Life to them and that is the point and purpose of Sports Fan Outreach: SFOI seeks for the souls at major sporting events, which includes Professional and College Football Games, plus the Super Bowl, Final Four, Kentucky Derby, etc. to hear the Gospel, be called to repentance and be ministered to in the moment.
Oh no, you can’t let your human loyalties dismiss the sports fan as just a byproduct of your ‘favorite sport’; no you need to preach the Word to them so they can be saved otherwise they will perish like all souls born into this world.
Ben Grady is a street evangelist in the Nashville, TN area. He has only been doing evangelism for about a year but in that time he has been blessed to meet many others who are doing the same.
Ben did not grow up in a Christian environment. His parents and brother were all either atheist or agnostic and he fell into the same mode of thinking. If you asked Ben in high school and college – although you would have had to catch him in between bouts of drunkenness and insobriety from drugs – he would have told you that he was spiritual but not religious.
After attending his first Bible study in college he was turned off by hearing someone say that everyone who was not a Christian was spiritually dead. This seemed an arrogant and ignorant statement at the time but afterwards the truth of it would be made known by bringing this dead man to life.
After receiving an undergraduate degree from University of Washington in Seattle, Washington Ben moved to Nashville, Tennessee to go to graduate school at Vanderbilt University. He spent about four and a half years trying to earn a doctorate degree in human genetics. It was during this time that the Lord really began to work on him. In the first year in graduate school Ben began attending a United Methodist church with one of his roommates. Even though there was precious little truth being preached in this congregation, it was a catalyst for change when Ben enrolled in a 33 week Bible study course that took him through a good portion of the scriptures. Encountering the sayings of Jesus in the New Testament struck Ben in a way that nothing else had before.
A newfound desire to serve the homeless and to do prison ministry began to change his life. Despite these changes, however, Ben still wasn’t aware that his heart was desperately wicked and that he needed to be born again. In fact, he kept on using drugs, drinking, and having ungodly relationships with women, although these things began to be more troubling to him. In the late months of 2011 God did something amazing to Ben. The Lord used a man who was quite honestly crazy but who believed in the power of the word of God to get Ben to start memorizing scripture. Around this same time, the dark and troubling history of his sexual immorality began deeply disturbing Ben.
On a rather unremarkable January evening in 2012, after some pot-smoking, during prayer, God wrought a change in the heart of Ben. No longer was the Bible just a book, but it became living and active to him. The weight of sin fell off his shoulders and spreading this new-found knowledge became everything to Ben, even though he was still vastly ignorant of most of the salient points of Christianity – at this point all he knew was that the Bible was true and that he needed to follow Jesus.
Due to his background in homeless ministry and a misinterpretation of what Jesus meant when he said that the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head, following Jesus to Ben meant leaving his PhD program and becoming voluntarily homeless. He ended up, after a series of turns, at the Nashville Rescue Mission, the city’s homeless shelter. There he ended up going through a life recovery program which had a profound impact on guiding him. The Lord continued to work grace in his heart after this time to bring him away from a number of bad spiritual situations to his current place.
By God’s amazing grace, Ben is now working as Database Administrator at the Nashville Rescue Mission, where he also gets to do frequent one-on-one ministry as well as preaching. He has been married for just over two years and is a member at the Reformed Baptist Church of Nashville. Him and a few other men are, through the guiding hand of God, seeking to stir up an evangelistic spirit in their local churches and city through their group, Together 4 Evangelism. Ben now does regular open-air preaching on the streets of Nashville and other evangelistic expeditions as the Lord allows.
Praise the Lord for His wonderful grace to sinners!
Join SFOI in London for the World Athletic Championships being held August 4 – 13, 2017. The WAC is an Olympic type event scheduled to be held at the Summer Olympic 2012 facilities in London.
Here’s an official promotion video:
Register now to join us to preach in the best city in the world for evangelism: London, England.
Airport Pickup: If you fly into London you will ride the Tube to the accommodations.
Meals: Breakfast is provided at the Highbury Centre. Other meals are on your own and accessed at each days ministry location.
Cost: $3,000 (the only fixed cost is $600 for accommodations. Breakfast is served daily as part of the cost. So you are responsible for other meals, your airfare to and from London and travel on the Tube within London). Payment can be made here: WAC Payment.
Registration Information: This event is for men and married couples only. Limited to twenty people total.
Next Step: Register by clicking on the SFOI logo below. Once you register and are approved you will receive further information including but not limited to an event waiver and payment information. You will also be asked to submit a bio and picture to be posted on the event pages.
Bill Adams was raised in the church, Baptist and Methodist, and has never in his life not known of or considered God in his life. In 1988 upon graduation from Belmont University’s Masters in Business program the Lord personally entered Bill’s life and called Bill to follow Him. That began a 29 year journey of following Jesus Christ and growing in the grace and knowledge of Him.
In 1995 the Lord called Bill to begin to go into the highways and hedges to preach the Word and in 2000 Bill became a full-time evangelist.
In the early years Bill preached at seemingly every concert, sporting event, parade and festival in Atlanta and simultaneously the Lord led him to travel to major sporting events like the Super Bowl, Final Four and Olympics to preach.
In 2007 Sports Fan Outreach [SFOI] was born as an effort to bring more Saints with him to preach at these sporting events and now through the SFOI George Whitefield program Bill is seeking men who believed they are called into full-time evangelism to join him to saturate the Western World with the Gospel.
Over the years millions of souls throughout the Western World have heard the Word through Bill’s preaching and the great delight of his life is knowing and preaching Jesus Christ crucified.
I became a Christian in the 70’s,. attended church faithfully and engaged in all the activities although I only shared my faith when asked. When I read Hell’s Best Kept Secret I understood true Biblical repentance versus false conversion. I started handing out tracts and enrolled in the school of biblical evangelism on-line. After attending the Great News Network boot camp in 2004 my life took on a new role I was now “going out of my way” to engage people in Biblical conversations.
I heard about the work Bill Adams was doing with Sports Fans Outreach and signed up for the Super Bowl outreach in Dallas. Since then I have attended several and had the opportunity to go with a team to my native England for several evangelistic events.
I am a member of Temple Baptist Church in Lubbock, Texas. Each week I go to Texas Tech University to hand out tracts and do one-to one witnessing.
prolifedorothy@att.net
Joseph Carmichael – Montgomery, AL
Joseph V. (Josh) Carmichael. Born in Enterprise, Alabama. Educated at the University of Alabama, Reformed Theological Seminary, and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. I am a minister in the Presbyterian Church in America. I live in Montgomery, Alabama and serve as pastor of New Covenant Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Selma, Alabama. I also teach for Birmingham Theological Seminary and Eastwood Christian School. I am married to Betsy, an Atlanta native, and we have 6 sons, ages 4 to 17.
Gerry Collins – Bakersfield, CA
I was not brought up in a Christian home and was influenced for the Gospel by other family members attending church where the Gospel was proclaimed. I made a profession of faith at around 14 years of age but soon that profession was placed on the back burner during my teen years. While in the Air Force as firefighter at age 20 God had me surrounded by Christians who shared the truth with me and this is the point where I truly believe God saved me and changed my heart for Him. AT around 2003 the Lord caused me through His word to fall in love with the Gospel all over again and gave me a hunger to share Christ with the lost more than I ever had before. I have been greatly encouraged in faith and desire to share Christ by the ministry of Livingwaters/Way of the Master. I have attended Ambassadors Academy which has opened up for me to participate in street evangelism. I am married wonderful woman and have 5 grown children. My desire is share the Gospel with as many people as possible as God allows.
Ken Hisle – Bloomington, IL
My name is Ken Hisle and I live in Bloomington, Illinois. I have been married to my wife Dee for 24 years and my life’s passion is sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with this lost world. I have been doing open air preaching and street evangelism for about 7 years. I live minutes from Illinois State University and have joined with other men and women locally to do outreach in our community.
I have been blessed to attend the Ambassador’s Academy twice (#12 & #18), the Super Bowl Outreach in 2013, 2014 & 2015, Revival Preacher Training 2013, the Kentucky Derby 2013, 2014 & 2015 and Fall for Greenville 2012 and 2013.
For the past 2 1/2 years I have been traveling to Chicago with the Chicago Evangelism Team (you can find us on Facebook) at least once per month and we are beginning to travel to other large cities within a few hours of us (St. Louis, Indianapolis). I am currently a self-employed contractor and one day hope to be doing full time evangelism…Lord willing!
Warren and Darlene Marquardt – Lakeland, FL
We have been married over 30 years and saved about 25 of those years. Currently living in Florida but we are originally from Wisconsin. We have four grown children all out on their own. We have served with Sport’s Fan Outreach on several occasions including last year at SBO 15. We currently attend Calvary Chapel, Lakeland, and do outreach at the abortion clinic twice a week.
Joseph R. Toy, Jr. – Folcroft, PA
Joe grew up in Shillington, PA and attended First EC Church of Reading. He is a 1978 graduate of Governor Mifflin High School. In 1982, he received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics from Millersville University. In the spring of 1982 as a senior in college, Joe committed his life to Jesus Christ. Upon graduation, Joe began his career as an accountant in Trenton, NJ. During this time, he attended Newtown Community Church in Newtown, PA. While attending this church, Joe felt the call to full time ministry. He left his job to attend Moody Bible Institute for a 3-week seminar on Urban Evangelism with plans to attend Evangelical Seminary in the fall of 1984. When Joe returned from Moody, he began a street ministry in the city of Reading called Inner City Campaigners. From this street ministry, an outreach to children and teens began at First EC of Reading called The Source. This ministry continued from 1984 to 1988 when Joe moved to Philadelphia, PA. Joe began his theological studies at Evangelical in 1984 and ended in 1987. During this time, Joe became a commissioned missionary and a licensed preacher in the Evangelical Congregational Church in May of 1985. In 1985, Joe and Wendy met at Evangelical Seminary while working on his Masters of Divinity studies. They were married at the chapel at Evangelical on March 22, 1986. Joe and Wendy have five sons. Jared(1987), Seth(1989), Ethan(1989), Aaron(1991) and Adam(1984). The boys were primarily home schooled from 1991 to 2013. Both Jared and Seth serve in The U.S. Coast Guard. Ethan is a career firefighter/paramedic in Currituck County, North Carolina. Aaron is employed at Wellesley Assisted care Facility as a food services manager. Adam serves in the U.S. Air Force. Joe and Wendy have been blessed with six grandchildren named: Forest, Joseph Conner, Morgan, Savannah and Jackson. In 1988, Joe and Wendy moved to Philadelphia to begin an association With Open Air Campaigners. During this time, they worked in an internship status with this mission board. The ministry of Open Air Campaigners is to do the work of Evangelism and to train others in Evangelism in an urban setting. This association lasted until 1992 when Joe resigned because of doctrinal issues that conflicted with the EC Church. Upon resolution of the proposed doctrinal changes within OAC, Joe served as an associate evangelist with them until 2000. Joe now serves on the board of directors of OAC, Inc. At this point Joe became one of the few Evangelical Congregational Church Denominational missionaries, which is a status that continued until 2008. In 1993, Joe established a ministry called Open Air Ministries-Philadelphia. Now Joe has formed his own 501c non-profit corporation called Open Air Ministries, Inc from 2009 until the present day. Joe’s ministry is primarily evangelistic by nature. Outreach is conducted at bus stops, subways, college campuses, center city, parades, events, neighborhoods, parks and other areas in and around the Metro Philadelphia Area. Joe does weekly outreach in Camden, NJ and in the summer conducts outreach at the New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware beach resorts. Through the years, Joe has been involved in the Philadelphia Port Ministry from 1988 to 2001. Also, much outreach has been done in inner city neighborhoods with children. Joe was a co-pastor for Metro Kids an outdoor kid’s church in various locations in Philadelphia from 2007 to 2011. Many times a year Joe travels to national events such as Mardi Gras, Indy 500, Spring Break Florida, Senior Week in Ocean City, MD and others to share the gospel. Another large part of Joe’s work is training others in evangelism. Joe spends a number of weeks each year training youth groups, college students, missionary candidates and others in evangelism. Some of these groups spend time with in Philly for a day or a week. The summer is especially busy with hosting these teams, including a number of EC Church youth groups. Joe and Wendy and Aaron live in Folcroft, which is in Delaware County, PA. Folcroft is located very close to the Philadelphia Airport. They attend Crossroads Community Church, which is in Upper Darby.
Tommy Waltz – Raleigh, NC
I grew up in a family with no religious background. The leaders in my life were alcoholics and loved pornography, so this was my influence. I was born a twin. While I was in the womb, my position did not allow my right side to develop properly. I entered the world partially paralyzed and developed a speech impediment when I started talking. In the fourth grade I was diagnosed with a learning and reading disability. I was picked on a lot in school and was told that I was slow and dumb. During my late teenage years my father told me that I was not going to work on his farm because of my slow comprehension. I found work in Columbia, South Carolina as a personal trainer and my idol became my body. I also joined several rock bands. With my last band we produced a CD and toured the Southeast. This life was from the pits of hell. The longer I lived, the more I hated my life. I had no purpose, no meaning, and no direction.
At the age of twenty-three, a lady invited me to a play on the life of Jesus. It explained His life from birth to His resurrection. This was the start of the whole transformation. I didn’t give my life to Christ that night. I continued running for a year. As I read God’s word, deeper conviction of sin grew. I was on the verge of taking my life, but through God’s grace He spared my life. The night I was going to take my life I found a card in my room from a person that reminded me of Jesus’ love for me. Turning to the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, I repented and placed my faith in Jesus that night in my room. My view of life is simple – Jesus died and came out of the grave for me, so I have to live for Him.
My Jesus found me broken on my bedroom floor not wanting to live anymore. Oh, how can I not share His Glorious Name? He has taken a slow, crippled boy off a farm in South Carolina and given him new life. I type this with tears in my eyes. I am a man who is blessed beyond measure with an amazing wife who has believed in me from day one and three amazing girls.
May we all boast together in what Jesus Christ has done in all of our lives. We serve an amazing God. He saved us and now He deserves our entire lives.
I have had the opportunity to lead a ministry called Gospel of God Ministries since 2009. GGM preaches and teaches the Gospel until faith becomes action.
The faith has a twofold action. First, it is pulling the unbeliever into the kingdom through repentance and faith in Jesus. Second, it is pushing the believer out into the world to share their faith. Find out more at http://www.gospelgm.com
Mark Yoho – Sugar Valley, GA
Mark was raised in a non-Christian home in Canton Ohio with a little exposure to Roman Catholicism. Upon Graduation from High school in 1983 he served 3 years active duty military in the US Army. Shortly after discharge, the Nation being in an economic recession, Mark moved to the Atlanta Georgia area seeking employment.
There he met the love of his life and they lived together for 10 years. Through alcohol, drugs, and the pursuit of personal wealth Mark suffered the loss of family and all of his possessions. It was during this time that Mark walked into Newtown Baptist Church in Calhoun GA and heard Pastor David Ray preach a sermon titled, “You must be born again.” As soon as the invitation was given Mark met Pastor Ray in the altar where he repented of sin and trusted CHRIST as his personal Savior. On March 29, 1998 Mark Yoho was born again and life began to radically change. Mark began to share his newfound faith in CHRIST immediately and continued to make it a lifestyle.
Seven months later GOD restored his relationship with the love of his life, he and Gynnette were finally and forever married. Four years later, February 17, 2002, GOD called Mark to preach as an evangelist. As an evangelist Mark has traveled all across the US conducting evangelistic outreaches, teaching evangelism, and preaching revivals. Much of the evangelistic outreaches have been in the inner city and at major events. Since December 1, 2007 Mark has served GOD as a full time vocational evangelist in his own ministry, the Fourth Watch Evangelistic Ministry www.fourthwatchministry.com.
Mark and Gynnette live in the little community of Sugar Valley, nestled in the mountains of North Georgia. They have two married children and their home church is Grove Level Baptist Church in Dalton, GA www.grovelevel.org
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George Alvarado was falsely converted 8 times before he was genuinely saved on January 11th, 2004. Like the majority of people in western Churches today, he made many decisions to be a Christian, but none of them were a sovereign work of the Holy Spirit. After he was regenerated through repentance and faith, he soon received military orders to move to England. Being newly married, in a new country, and a new convert, this season was quite a shock for him and his wife. But that is one of the ways God rapidly grew him.
He attributes his seven and a half years in England as both wonderful and extremely sanctifying. Soon after he arrived, he immediately began to share his faith with co-workers, family, friends, and strangers on the streets of Newmarket, Cambridge. His most trying times were the immense amount of opposition he faced from professing believers and pastors when he preached the biblical gospel to his local church(es) where he attended. But that didn’t stop him from preaching and being obedient to proclaim the gospel wherever he could. Two years after his arrival in England, he was overcome with conviction to preach in the open air. And that calling has gripped his heart ever since!
During his time overseas, George had the privilege to preach as a Sunday school teacher for ages 12 and under, inside military confinement facilities, during worship services, and in the streets of Cambridge, England on a regular basis. It was through the ministry in Cambridge that he was able to equip and train aspiring open-air preachers and faithful saints for the work of the making disciples. Since his return to the U.S., he has been able to link up with other preachers and continue the work of making disciples in Illinois, Colorado, Wyoming, and now Washington state. It was Super Bowl 2015 in Pheonix, Arizona that George was introduced to Super Fan Outreach International and had the privilege of being a team leader in Houston in 2017.
George is married to his beautiful wife Solivette, has a son and three children in heaven. He holds Bachelors in Applied Linguistics and is the author of the book Apocity: The Greatest Omission, which you can download for free here:
He writes blogs for Truth in Grace, is a co-host with Ricky Gantz on G220 Radio Network and has his own show with Mike Miller called Tongue Waggers: Linguistics from a Christian Worldview. He has experience working with church plants, leading and organizing evangelism outreaches, loves teaching apologetics, hermeneutics, systematic theology, linguistics, and exercises his passion for the gospel and teaching in his current local assembly. And because George is a 16-year veteran of the United States Air Force, he has had the further privilege of preaching Christ wherever the military sends him. But his greatest desire is to see revival during his lifetime. He asks that you continue to pray for him, his family, and for those in the United States military.
My name is Adam Wright and I live in Canton, Ohio. I work as a packer at RCA Rubber Company. I am married to my amazing wife, Tammy, and collectively we have 4 kids. Chrissy (27), Emily (22), Caleb (18), & Nick (17). I have an evangelistic outreach ministry called Made For This Ministries with my one son, Caleb, in the Canton area. We do evangelism at the local First Friday events, Pro Football Hall Of Fame Festival, Light Up Downtown, and any other event we can make it to. We also do outreaches with our Cleveland area friends. I am really excited to see what the Lord has in store for us!!!
My testimony is that I was raised in a very strong Christian home with great Christian parents. Middle school and high school were real hard for me and I began to hang around some sketchy kids. I had a rebellious streak a mile long. After I graduated, I went into the Navy and became an agnostic which somehow led to me getting involved in Wicca (paganism) and got real messed up spiritually. I got out of the Navy and lived a life of drugs, blasphemy, death metal, and everything evil I could think of. It seems that the Lord had other plans. He drew me to Himself in ways that sound crazy now. The Lord saved me from the iniquity of my sins, granting me repentance and faith. Life has never really been the same.
Evangelism is my passion and I one day hope to be in full time ministry preaching the Gospel to the ends of the Earth, God willing, of course. I have attended the last 2 years of the Kentucky Derby Outreach with SFOI and plan on attending more events in the future.
London, England and England have had a very extensive history. See the picture of William Tyndale below who translated the Bible into English.
The colonies were populated with Christians from England laying the foundation for the founding of the United States.
Statistics from 2011:
The largest religion in the 2011 Census for England and Wales was Christianity with 33.2 million people (59.3 per cent of the population). Muslims were the next largest religious group with 2.7 million people (4.8 per cent of the population).
The grand and divine opportunity of preaching the Gospel in London for 10 days is in part awakening the historical roots of Christianity that effected the US and the world.
Here is a list of the Miami religious demographics:
Miami, Fla. 2010 census population: 399,457
Religious demographics:
40.59% of the people in Miami, Florida are religious, meaning they affiliate with a religion. 22.45% are Catholic; 0.61% are LDS; 5.95% are another Christian faith; 1.15% in Miami, Florida are Jewish; 0.18% are an eastern faith; 0.94% affilitates with Islam.
Miami is not a protestant Christian city making the opportunity for souls hearing the Gospel afresh even more exciting.
I am a slave of the Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God; He bought me at a high price. (cf. 1 Cor 7:23) In the year 2003, Darlene and I started attending a local Baptist Church because our son Daniel was participating in their youth group with a neighbor. In April, 2003, during a church-wide reading of a book called, “The Purpose Driven Life,” I was drawn to follow the Lord. I do not attribute my salvation to this book, however, the Lord did use it to bring me to repentance and faith.
After reading that book I began to read the scriptures daily and I prayerfully sought to follow the Lord in obedience.It was when reading the word of God, particularly, the Gospel According to John, that the blinders came off and the Lord gave me a new heart. I was literally born again through the testimony of the Holy Spirit (inward call) and the testimony of the prophets and apostles (outward call). The early church Pastor-Theologian, Irenaeus of Lyons (130-202 A.D.) said that God guides His sheep with His two hands: His Word and His Spirit. I can attest to the truth of that statement.
My given name is Michael Brian Peek, but people call me Mike. I am the eldest son of Richard and Carole Peek, I was born May 4, 1968 in Richardson, Texas. I am husband to Darlene, we were married June 30, 1990 in Mansfield, Louisiana. I am father to Daniel James Peek whom the Lord gave me to adopt, November 4, 1992. I am father to Bethany Rachel Peek, born to us, July 20, 1993.
Since 2012, Darlene and I have fellowshipped at Sylvania Church in Tyler, Texas. We are a Reformed Southern Baptist Church (SBC). We are Particular-Baptist; our confession of faith is the 1689 London Baptist confession. http://www.sylvaniachurch.com
I graduated North Garland high school in 1987. I spent the first 5 years after high school, before going to college, in the U.S. Army. I was stationed in the country of Panama, Ft. Knox, KY (where I meet Darlene), Ft. Polk, LA, and lastly the country of Korea. After discharge from the Army, I went to college. I graduated in 1997 and became a Registered Nurse. My profession for the past 20 years has been cardiovascular-critical care (ICU) nursing. I am currently in graduate school at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary working towards a Master of Theological Studies. It is my belief, that whoever is serious about gospel proclamation in truth, ought to undergo some type of formal-structured discipleship.
I spent a three-year period, 2012-2015, memorizing the entire Gospel According to John word-for-word. One day a week I go to a public place and recite about 2-3 chapters in open-air while giving away copies of the Gospel According to John to passerby’s. I believe that justification, according to scripture alone, is a gift, given by the grace of God alone, through faith alone, in Christ Jesus alone, and is for the glory of God alone. (Cf. Rom 3:21-26) The apostle Paul said, “So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.” (1 Rom 10:17, NASB) Therefore, I am compelled to go out and preach the gospel.
Why do I recite the Gospel According to John in open-air and not preach extemporaneously? Three reasons, all of which come from the Gospel According to John:
1. It is the Word of God who draws His sheep and gives eternal life to them. Jesus said, “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.” (Jn 10:27-28, NASB)
There must be both an inward-call (testimony of the Holy Spirit) and an outward-call (testimony of the apostles) before faith occurs. The apostles were the ones who witnessed Jesus life, death and resurrection; therefore, it is their witness that must be proclaimed. Jesus said to His disciples, “When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me, and you will testify also, because you have been with Me from the beginning.” (Jn 15:26-27, NASB)
The Gospel According to John is an eye witness testimony about Jesus, written by the disciple whom Jesus loved (cf. Jn 21:20-24), so that people may believe in Him and have eternal life. (cf. Jn 20:31)
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