Around 50 people made it through the rigors of our latest evangelism class out of an original 80+. Congratulations all! Let the next Great Awakening begin!
To be a soul winner is the happiest thing in the world. And with every soul you bring to Jesus Christ, you seem to get a new heaven here upon earth. —Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)
UPDATE 7/24/10: About 60+ students are still hanging in there after the halfway point!
WOW! Over 80 students signed up for our summer class (not all are pictured)! Revival? Possibly. A move of the Holy Spirit? Most definitely. Ahh, but how many will survive the entire 6 week course?
Every other week I’ll bring this post back to the top of the blog. Remember students, you get one bonus point for every three sentence adventure that you write about.
Even if you are not a student in my class I welcome you to share your own evangelistic adventure in the comments section.
My teaching notes are now available online by clicking here. I can even mail you a hard copy for free! Send me an email at PastorSteveAtHope@yahoo.com if you’d like them.
This is a first: By the end of my 6 week evangelism training class, “Sharing Your Faith Without Fear,” I usually have a 50% drop out rate. Not this time! My class actually doubled in size from the original! We started out with three and ended up with six!
Our top-of-the-class winner is Jeff Pringle, a man who has just returned to the faith after a three year period of wandering. And I just got a phone call today from “Righteous Richard” Chavarria, our Department of Motor Vehicles preacher; he told me that Jeff is learning the ropes, readying himself to preach at another local DMV.
Our next class will be starting on July 7 at Hope Chapel, Hermosa Beach.
Our leadership team prayed that God would raise up three Charles Spurgeons from our new six week evangelism class. Well, we started with six and three are still around after the second week, fulfilling the tradition that 50% of “Sharing Your Faith without Fear” attendees drop out before the end of the class. So, let’s see who will continue to the end. Hey, no pressure, folks!
Or maybe those three Spurgeons might come out of our One-Day Evangelism training that graduated eleven students this past Saturday. Miracles do happen, y’know….
Here’s a great quote from the Prince of Preachers himself:
“I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death, still to be a soul winner, still to be a true herald of the cross, and testify the name of Jesus to the last hour.”
If you really like Spurgeon then go to The Spurgeon Archive.
Our last six week evangelism training called “Sharing Your Faith Without Fear” ended
recently, and the Top-of-the-Class graduate, Nydia Cordero, is the mom of our previous class winner, Pierre. I wonder if the evangelism gene is passed upwards as the Christian species adapts to the the very great need of preaching to a lost world? Or is that just plain monkey business?
Our next class starts this Thursday at 7PM@ Hope Chapel, Hermosa Beach. A special 1-Day class will be held on Saturday, May 22, from 9AM-4PM. Details? Call 310-374-4673 or leave a comment.
I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ. (Philemon 6)
Our newest class of 15 (two aren’t pictured) are taking “Sharing Your Faith Without Fear.” Again I will ask this question: Who will persevere to the end?
Every other week I’ll bring this post back to the top of the blog. Remember students, you get one bonus point for every three sentence adventure that you write about.
Even if you are not a student in my class I welcome you to share your own evangelistic adventure in the comments section.
My teaching notes are now available online by clicking here. I can still mail you a hard copy for free. Send me an email at PastorSteveAtHope@yahoo.com if you’d like them.
I’ve been teaching our evangelism training, “Sharing Your Faith Without Fear,” for nearly five years now and have never seen a level of commitment like I have with this latest class, the first of 2010.
The first big deal: Only two students dropped out. The 50% rule was overruled!
The second big deal: There were three first place winners! Pierre Cordero was #1, Eva Ho #2, and 12-year-old Cherish DelRosario was #3.
How can there be three first place winners? (more…)
Hey kids! Here is where you post your evangelism tales as you hand out your daily Gospel tracts! Remember, the top of the class will win some strange and goofy prize I’ll think up later. No KIDding!
Something amazing is happening as this January class finishes up its fourth week of training in “Sharing Your Faith Without Fear.”
Three of the students are very motivated to win the hand carved 10 Commandments plaque that I have offered to the all-time highest scorer. To win the plaque, they must write, at minimum, a three sentence “E-vangie Tale” of their experiences as they share
their faith. They get an extra “Bonus Point” for every one they type out. As of this re-posting, there are over 350 tales in the comments section. I never had a class like this.
The three front-runners are Eva, Pierre, and 12-year-old Cherish, fresh off her first place win in my Kids’ Evangelism class.
The previous record holder, Richard Hidalgo, has held his #1 position since August, 2007. He is in dire straits, though. Pierre Cordero has promised to smash the record with a score so high that no one will ever beat it. We’ll see in two more weeks…. Stay tuned for the exciting finish.
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Even if you are not in my class I welcome you to share your own evangelistic adventure in the comments section.
My teaching notes are now available online by clicking here. I can also mail you a hard copy for FREE, compliments of Hope Chapel. Send me an email at PastorSteveAtHope@yahoo.com if you’d like them.
***And this Gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.***
—Matthew 24:14
Ten students from our six week evangelism training course, “Sharing Your Faith Without Fear” persevered to the end and are now well prepared to do what the majority of Christians will not do: Be a witness for Jesus Christ! (See the original starting class here.)
Out of the 112 students who took the class in ’09, only 64 made it through the bootcamp. Many are called, but few are chosen….
My teaching notes are now available online by clicking here. I can still mail you a hard copy for the price of postage which is only $5.00. Send me an email at PastorSteveAtHope@yahoo.com if you’d like them.
Finally, brothers, pray for us that the message of the Lord may spread rapidly and be honored, just as it was with you. (2 Thessalonians 3:1)
This is the last evangelism class of the year and it is my hope and desire that all 17 students will persevere to the end. Will they?
Every other week I’ll bring this post back to the top of the blog. Remember students, you get one bonus point for every three sentence adventure that you write about.
Even if you are not a student in my class I welcome you to share your own evangelistic adventure in the comments section.
My teaching notes are now available online by clicking here. I can still mail you a hard copy for the price of postage which is only $5.00. Send me an email at PastorSteveAtHope@yahoo.com if you’d like them.
These are the latest graduates from our class, “Sharing Your Faith Without Fear.” How do you think they’ll fare in the future? Jesus started with 12 and look what He did with them.
Check out all 128 comments at the post “What’s Your E-vangie Tale #34″ to see how this class faced their fears and obediently shared the Gospel—and wrote about it! Our last class of the year starts on October 15. Feel free to join us.
My teaching notes and student notes—over 100 pages of material—are available free of charge, except for postage. Just email me your address (send to PastorSteveAtHope@yahoo.com ) and my awesome assistant Barbara will get these out to you. Soon they will be online.
With just two weeks to go in our current evangelism class we are down to just twelve students out of an original starting class of sixteen…. Who will persevere to the end?
After Paul was saved, this is what he did: “At once he began to speak in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God.” “…he…preached fearlessly in the name of Jesus, [and] …moved about freely in Jerusalem, speaking boldly in the name of the Lord.” (Acts 9:20, 28) Oh, that Christians would do the same today!
Every other week I’ll bring this post back to the top of the blog. Remember students, you get one bonus point for every three sentence adventure that you write about.
My teaching notes and student notes—over 100 pages of material—are available free of charge, except for postage. Just email me your address (PastorSteveAtHope@yahoo.com) and my awesome assistant Barbara will get these out to you. Soon they will be online.
Out of seventeen students, seven completed our evangelism training, “Sharing Your Faith Without Fear.”(Click here to see who started.) They finished well, persevering to the end. I always offer this challenge to the students on the last night of the class: “If you think that you are an evangelist, please stand up.” Usually one or two will.
This time, to my delight, everyone stood.
The next class begins Thursday, August 20, at 7PM
NEWSFLASH!!! WITH TWO WEEKS LEFT TO GO,
A MAJORITY OF THE STUDENTS ARE STILL IN THE CLASS!!!
QUICK! CALL MOM!!!
“Boldly and without hindrance [Paul] preached the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ.” Acts 28:31
Our newest six week evangelism class, “Sharing Your Faith Without Fear,” has seventeen students. Will the 50% rule apply? I sure hope not. Pray for them.
The 50% rule is fairly standard for those who teach evangelism classes. Half of the students drop out before the class is done; in fact, most drop out before the fourth class starts. Why is this? I have a theory: When you take a theology class, at the end, you will be a little smarter. If you take a course in prayer, by the time you graduate, you will know how to pray. And you can do that alone. But when you enroll in an evangelism training, you will be required to share your faith at the end of the class.
That’s too much to ask for many Christians. They’d rather let those who have ”the gift” of evangelism do that. Hence, a 50% drop out rate!
This is the place to post your very own evangelism adventure. Every other week I’ll bring this post back to the top of the blog. Remember students, you get one bonus point for every three sentence adventure that you write about.
My teaching notes and student notes—over 100 pages of material—are available free of charge, except for postage. Just email me your address (PastorSteveAtHope@yahoo.com) and my awesome assistant Barbara will get these out to you. Soon they will be online.
Staying true to the pattern, 50% made it through to the end of our evangelism class, “Sharing Your Faith Without Fear.” That’s 16 ready to do the work of an evangelist! Pray that they will.
Our next class starts on Wednesday, July 8!
My teaching notes and student notes—over 100 pages of material—are available free of charge, except for postage. Just leave a comment if interested.
Jude exhorts, “…snatch others from the fire and save them…” (Jude 23)
What are you doing to snatch others from the fire? Here is the place to write about your evangelistic encounters!
Our new evangelism class, “Sharing Your Faith Without Fear” just started with 32 students. Who will remain at the end of the six weeks?
As an extra added bonus, we have our church’s deaf ministry participating! When I asked them why they were taking the class they said, “Because you asked us to.” Now that’s a good sign!
See the creative way another deaf person was able to share the Gospel by clicking here.
If you’d like a free curriculum of this 6 week course, with over a 100 pages of material including teaching notes and student work, drop me an email or leave me a comment. All you pay is the postage.
Jude exhorts, “…snatch others from the fire and save them…” (Jude 23)
What are you doing to snatch others from the fire? Here is the place to write about your evangelistic encounters!
Our new evangelism class, “Sharing Your Faith Without Fear” just started with 32 students. Who will remain at the end of the six weeks?
As an extra added bonus, we have our church’s deaf ministry participating! When I asked them why they were taking the class they said, “Because you asked us to.” Now that’s a good sign!
See the creative way another deaf person was able to share the Gospel by clicking here.
If you’d like a free curriculum of this 6 week course, with over a 100 pages of material including teaching notes and student work, drop me an email or leave me a comment. All you pay is the postage.
We started with 13 and ended up with seven. That’s the unfortunate truth when teaching a class on evangelism: a nearly 50% drop out rate. But I am incredibly hopeful that God will use these people mightily, because they serve a mighty God. Congratulations you all!
The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor. (Luke 4:18-19)
Here is the latest evangelism class. They are ready and willing to do what Jesus said he would do. Who will be in the picture at the end of the six week course? We are now entering into the fourth week and have seen a few drop outs already….
This is the place for you to write your own evangelistic adventure whether you are in my class or not. I may even publish it on the blog if it’s really exciting or funny or horrible!
