We spent the first week of January in Madisonville, Kentucky with Pastor Ron Hendricks, and the great people of Greater Lighthouse Pentecostal Church.

After a wonderful service on Thursday night, we went out to eat at Arby's with Brandon Shanks (youth pastor) and his wife, Kara.  (These are sweet people who love the work of God).

While placing my order, I overheard a conversation between a young man named Anthony and one of the employees.  I began speaking to Anthony, and noticed that he was very easily approached.  He maintained a positive and respectful disposition throughout our conversation, as he shared with me the events that surrounded his previous few years. Not knowing who I was, nor my occupation, Anthony spoke openly about past failures, and assured me that he wanted to make a fresh start in life.  

Allow me to suggest that there are people in your city that are hungry for "attention."  They are hungry for someone that will listen to them, befriend them,     and take a personal interest in their life!

Within twenty minutes, we were on our way back to the church to baptize Anthony in the name of Jesus Christ!

The weekend services were absolutely tremendous, and the atmosphere was so incredible!  On Sunday afternoon, Brandon and I, as well as a few folks from the church went out for a short while for outreach.  That night, there were 31 first time visitors!

After service on Sunday night, we stayed around and spoke to many people that were interested in taking their outreach efforts to a new level.

We can't say enough about this church.  What a great group of people!  We have learned to love them in a short period of time, and look forward to hearing great things in the days ahead!

After a refreshing week at Because of the Times, we headed to Orange, Texas, to be with the Pentecostals of Pinehurst.

We were in revival from Sunday through Wednesday.  From the very first service, we focused much of our attention on outreach, and soul winning.  Within the first five minutes of our outreach efforts, we met a middle age man, that was open to the message of Jesus Christ!  After speaking to him for several minutes, he was eager to come back to the church and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ!

Throughout our four days in Orange, we held two soul winning seminars and went out into the streets of their city several times.   On Wednesday night, we had 40-50 visitors from the community.  To God be the glory!  

Many of the people in this church were excited about soul winning, and assured us that they would continue to reach for the people of their city in the days ahead.