We recently finished teaching the 8 week "Basic Training Course" through the "Way of the Master" to the women of Teen Challenge of the Ozarks.(Wait for Teen Challenge page to load).  We began the "Basic Training Course" approx. in May and completed the class on July 3, 2006.  The next step in the training is to take the ladies out street witnessing.  There were 13 of them that came out with us, along with one male visitor.  

Leann and I have been blessed to have been able to teach an evangelism class to the ladies at Teen Challenge.  This eight week course with them has taught us as much as it taught them, I’m sure.  I thank God for their passion to seek and save the lost, as well as their hunger for the Word of God in their lives.  We will continue to teach one evangelism class per month at Teen Challenge of the Ozarks.  We thank God for bringing them into our lives. 

We had some of our SWAT TEAM members come out to assist with the training.  David Lohn and his wife, Debbie and daughter, Ruthie; J.J. Lindsay, Danika, and my wife Leann, and our daughter, Alexis and myself.  Total count was 22 out sharing the gospel on the streets of Downtown Branson.

Here are a couple of pics:

Teen Challenge of the Ozarks Ladies

Like I said, there were 22 of us in all out on the streets of Historic Downtown Branson.  It was very hot and humid and there weren’t too many people out and about.  We decided to offer people cute little stuffed animals if they would take the "Good Person Test".  It worked sometimes.

We broke into groups of 4 or 5 and began passing out tracts and witnessing to those who would stop long enough to answer questions and sweat.  Overall, we probably passed out approx. 300 gospel tracts and had roughly 10-12 good one-2-one witnessing conversations with people out on the street.

Sometimes it was the team leaders who were engaged in the witnessing, while the Teen Challenge girls would watch and learn.  Other times, it was the Teen Challenge girls who would be leading the conversations and witnessing to people.  Praise God.

We thank God for bringing these folks into our path Sunday.  We all learned from each other and were able to share the gospel with both people who said they were Christians and people who were not Christians.

We even met up with a man and his son who were on vacation in Branson passing out the same type of gospel tracts that we were passing out.  He does the same type of witnessing that we do, that he learned from the Way of the Master. 

Thanks to those SWAT TEAM members who gave up their Sunday afternoon to assist in training.  Thanks goes out to the Teen Challenge ladies who was out learning and sharing their faith.

We thank God for you all.