Stone the Preacher

This Labor Day weekend we will be at the Fiesta Hermosa, a three day street fair where an estimated 100,000 people will attend. We will have an evangelism booth at the base of the Hermosa Beach Pier, the only Christian presence at the fair.

Of course, our booth doesn’t shout out that we are about Christ; no, it is an Intelligence Test  booth where hundreds of people line up to fill out questionnaires (click here to get your free I.Q. Test tract), then we share our faith. (See how we do it here.)

We also preach at bus stops. Below, see “Righteous Richard” Chavarria belt it out at a previous fair on Memorial weekend, 2008.

We will be there from 8am-6pm, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Park at the Mira Costa High School parking lot on 1401 Artesia Blvd. (3 blocks east of Pacific Coast Hwy) in Manhattan Beach, and take the shuttle bus down, then walk to our booth at the base of the pier.

To see what we are doing the rest of the month… (more…)

Another festival. More sinners. More evangelistic opportunities. Be there. (There is also the possibility that we will be going to the Santa Monica Pier where a world-wide Rave will be held.)

Meet at Hope Chapel at noon, leaving promptly at 12:30, returning by 5:30.

Next week, the BIG one! Fiesta Hermosa time again! Three days in our Intelligence Test Booth, bus stop preaching, drunken hordes—and more!

Hammer, The Tough Guy

I’m including something new to my “Destinations” post on Wednesdays: a video clip from Living Waters University. The new visitors to this blog  may not know how to share their faith on-to-one, so these clips featuring Ray Comfort will be a real value-added treat. Now in addition to knowing where we are going each week (and I hope you’ll join us), you’ll know what to say!

Witnessing to Paul the Catholic

• My new six week evangelism training, “Sharing Your Faith Without Fear” begins at tonight @ 7pm at Hope Chapel, Hermosa Beach. Cost is FREE!
• Saturday, August 21^st: Evangelism Adventure @ Manhattan Beach—Meet at Hope Chapel at Noon, eat pizza, pray and then go out and share our faith. We leave promptly at 12:30 pm, returning by 4:30 pm.
• Another team will be headed to another India Independence Day Festival, this time in the San Fernando Valley. Meet at 4:30pm across from the Calvary Chapel bookstore located on the corner of Knox and Vermont in Gardena. Call Tom Nance-Ulrich for more info: 310-619-1588

This Saturday we will be heading to the TRANSFORMED Conference in Anaheim to hear Ray Comfort, Kirk Cameron and others teach the basics of biblical evangelism in a concise, entertaining four hour session. Carpool from Hope Chapel at 6:45am, returning after lunch about 3pm.

If you’re staying back Saturday morning,
we have a team heading down
to the Redondo Beach Pier.
Meet at Hope Chapel at noon to carpool.

Another team will be heading to the India Independence Day Festival at 4:30pm, Saturday evening. Meet across from the Calvary Chapel bookstore, located on the corner of Knox and Vermont in Gardena. The festival is in Norwalk and starts at 5:30pm. Thousands attend.

Next Wednesday my six week evangelism training, “Sharing Your Faith Without Fear” begins at 7pm. Cost is FREE! Childcare is provided with pre-registration. Watch this ad from a previous class below.

Saturday August 7^th: Evangelism Adventure @ Santa Monica Pier—Meet at Hope Chapel at Noon, eat pizza, pray and then go out to share our faith. We leave promptly at 12:30 pm, retuning by 5:30 pm.

Tuesday, August 10^th: Evangelism Adventure @ Del Mar Race Track—Meet at Hope Chapel at Special Time 7:30 am. We will be leaving at 8:00 am to go to the Del Mar Outreach. Help needed in these areas: BBQ, Servers, Sign-in, Children’s activities, etc. Help minister to the 1,000+ track workers who live on-site.

Saturday, August 14^th: Transformed Conference—This is my 6 week evangelism class in 4 hours with Ray Comfort & Kirk Cameron. Meet at Hope Chapel at Special Time 6:45 am.

Conference is 8:30 am -12:30 pm.  We’ll have lunch, and then return home by 3pm. (more…)

This Saturday the Hope Chapel evangelism team will join 70 other evangelists from the Ambassadors’ Academy at the Huntington Pier. Talk about an atheist’s nightmare!

Meet at Hope Chapel at noon to carpool. We will be leaving promptly at 12:15.

Here’s an encouraging testimony from a man from Montana, Dale Adams, who was on my team at the Academy a few months ago:

Hello Steve,

I just wanted to share a couple of experiences with you that I have had over the last couple of weeks. (more…)

We will be heading to the strangest place on earth this Saturday: Noooo, not Washington, D. C., but Venice Beach.

In the past we’ve made it a habit to preach in front of the outdoor beer garden first thing, but last time we tried it someone threw a beer glass. at us. Fortunately it hit a pole right in front of where we were standing and sprayed glass all around, yet didn’t hit us.

Another time, a waitress brought out the largest set of cowbells I’ve ever seen and started banging them to drown out the preaching; when that didn’t work she turned on a boom box and held it over her head.

And way before all these incidents someone splashed me with the entire contents of his water glass. (See that video here.)

I think we’ll skip the beer garden this time. Hey! But there’s always the Kush Clubhouse!

Meet at Hope Chapel at noon to carpool. Returning by 5:30.

AVP stands for Association of Volleyball Professionals.

Thousands will gather to watch adults play in the sand, and, of course, the evangelism team will be there to help the beach-goers get their priorities in order.

Meet at Hope Chapel at noon to carpool.We will be returning at about 4PM.

See what fellow Hermosans think about God when we interviewed them awhile back by clicking here.

Next week: Venice Beach

This is a new adventure. I heard from a car show enthusiast who attended last year’s event that tens of thousands of people milled about (see the video ad from last year). Sponsored by Teen Challenge, this car show’s motto is “Takin’ it to the Street.” We will do the same, sharing our faith with tracts, talking one-to-one, and by preaching in the open air.

To carpool, meet at Hope Chapel at a SPECIAL TIME: 9AM (The show is from 10AM-3PM).

Saturday, July 3: Redondo Beach Pier. Should be a crowded day! Meet at Hope Chapel at noon to carpool.

Wednesday, July 7: “Sharing Your Faith Without Fear” 6 week evangelism class. 7PM at Hope Chapel in the Upper Room East. Call Barbara to sign up: 310-374-4673 x121

Saturday, July 10: Hawthorne Car Show. Meet at Hope Chapel at Special Time, 9AM, to carpool.

See what other exciting things we are doing this month…. (more…)

This Saturday we will be heading out to yet another street fair in South Redondo Beach. Want to join in? Meet at Hope Chapel at noon to carpool.

Want to know what happened at the West Hollywood Gay Pride Parade last week? Team leader Tom Nance-Ulrich has this report. (more…)

Two years ago, at the NBA Finals, I was forcibly pulled down from my elevated preaching area. (Read about it here.)

Last year, at the 2009 Finals, I was smacked in the face. (Read about it here.) Then I was heckled mercilessly by a contingent of atheists, rapscallions, and miscreants, who had no problem using colorful expletives to describe their feelings about my stop light preaching. (See video below.)

Well, we’re going again! This time to Game 7 of the NBA finals! (I love L.A.) Want to come and experience a smackdown? Meet at Hope Chapel at 2:45PM to carpool. Returning by 7PM.

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On Saturday, we will be heading to the Huntington Pier to watch Ray Comfort in action. Meet at Hope Chapel at noon to carpool. (Read about the very first time I preached with Ray by clicking here.)

This Saturday, we will be going to one of the wealthiest places in SoCal: the Palos Verdes Penninsula for their annual street fair. Though it’s expected to be rather uneventful in terms of angry outbursts, I’m sure there will be a fair number of Security officials who will try to stop us from handing out tracts and conversing on the public streets. Most are just ignorant of the First Amendment. (If you haven’t read “On Dealing with the Police,” print it out and memorize the protocols.) Meet at Hope Chapel at noon to carpool.

I interviewed a hypnotist there a few years back. He wasn’t too pleased with my Biblical therapy….

On Sunday the team will be going to the West Hollywood Gay Pride Parade, a very difficult venue for evangelism.  Born again, fundamentalist Christians are generally unwelcome in this part of town, partly because of the unloving attitudes displayed to this community by self-righteous believers, a lot of them who hold hateful signs. We go because we love the people there; we go to listen and to reason with them about Hell, Heaven, and the Savior. Not recommended for kids. Meet at Hope Chapel at 9AM to carpool.

Did you know we have a “Gay Equality“ Gospel tract? Click here to download it for free.

See a whole raft of evangelism articles dealing with the homosexual community including our strategy of not arguing, by clicking here.

Saturday, June 5: Redondo Beach Pier—Meet at Hope Chapel at Noon, eat pizza, pray and then go out and share our faith. We leave promptly at 12:30 pm, returning by 4:30 pm.

Saturday, June 12: PV Street Fair—Meet at Hope Chapel at Noon, eat pizza, pray and then go out and share our faith. We leave promptly at 12:30 pm, returning by 4:30 pm.

Sunday, June 13: West Hollywood Gay Pride Parade—Meet at Hope Chapel at SPECIAL TIME 9:00 am, pray and then go out and share our faith. Parade begins at 11:00AM, returning by 3:30 PM (more…)

For the fourth year in a row, we will be setting up our covert evangelism booth on the Hermosa Beach Pier, May 29-31, from 8AM to 6PM for the famous Fiesta Hermosa, a street fair that attracts 100,000 over the Memorial Day weekend. (See how to do your own booth here.)

You are welcome to join us as we hand out Gospel tracts, give away stuffed animals, share one-to-one and bus stop preach. If you plan on joining us, park in the Mira Costa High School parking lot on Artesia Blvd. and take the shuttle bus to the fair. We will be at the base of the pier waiting for you.

Below, see an awesome evasive maneuver performed by Australian evangelist, Josh Williamson, as a Security guard tried to stop him from preaching to the shuttle bus line at last Labor Day’s Fiesta. Watch how he has perfected this move:

We’re going to the American Idol Finale for the third year in a row on Wednesday morning to preach to the line of people waiting to get their tickets. Will there be anybody there? Will we be harassed? Anticipation is part of the allure of these outings….

Read what happened in 2008 when we encountered a line of thousands.

Read what happened in 2009 when, miraculously, we actually preached on the Red Carpet!

Santa Monica is a strange place; it’s next to Venice Beach, and everyone knows that Venice Beach is very weird. The ironies are delicious. You have the super-rich protesting everything, while the homeless are on nearly every corner. (Satirist Harry Shearer says this as a sign-off line at the end of his radio program: “Le Show originates from Santa Monica: Home… of the homeless.”)

The 3rd St. Promenade, in the heart of Santa Monica, has thousands of visitors everyday, each with a different belief system on why humans exist—and it makes for a great day of sharing the Gospel. Meet at Hope Chapel at noon to carpool.

Below is a video featuring a very sad tattooed man named Lester. Surprisingly, he was very receptive to the Gospel.

Next week: The Fiesta Hermosa

This Saturday we will be heading to Torrance for the largest Armed Forces Day Parade west of the Mississippi. Meet at Hope Chapel at 10AM to carpool.

On Sunday, we will be going to Long Beach for their annual Pride Parade. Meet at Calvary Chapel at 8AM, in front of the bookstore. Tom Nance-Ulrich will be leading. Here’s his contact info: 310-619-1588. Parade begins at 10AM. returning by 3PM. Read the 7 part report with video interviews of our excursion into the West Hollywood Gay Pride Parade last year by clicking here.

And remember, everyone who accompanies our evangelism team always gets free Gospel tracts, thanks to the wonderful generosity of The Way of the Master. See everything we are doing in May by clicking here.

THIS WEEKEND

On Saturday we will be heading out, for the very first time, to the 33rd Occasional Doo Dah Parade in Pasadena. This is a parody of the Tournament of Roses Parade, bohemian and counter-cultural in character, with lots of left-leaning, tree-hugger types who need the Gospel.

Meet at Hope Chapel at 8:00 AM, pray and then go out to share our faith. Parade begins at 11:00 AM. Returning by 5:30 PM. (more…)