Voice of the Martyrs Conference

Since the beginning of this year on Wednesdays I’ve been posting about modern day Christians being persecuted for their faith. Now’s the chance to hear from some of those who have survived. We will be attending the Voice of the Martyrs “Bound with Them” Conference this Saturday. Carpool and details below.

Here is the list of speakers and what happened to them.

  • Gracia Burnham A militant Muslim group, the Abu Sayyaf, kidnapped Martin and Gracia Burnham, missionaries to the Philippines, on May 27, 2001. The Burnhams were in captivity for 376 days. During an eventual rescue attempt by the Philippine Army on June 7, 2002, Martin was killed and Gracia was wounded. Her story is told in the books “In the Presence of My Enemies” and “To Fly Again.”

Evangelism Adventure: Hollywood Anti-War Protest

The best way to describe this event is that there are 3-5,000 adults convening who were never disciplined by their parents as children. Or: If God took the restraining power of His Holy Spirit from the earth, it would look something like this gathering.

These people are against everything we as Christians are for, and are for everything we are against, for the most part. They are so far left President Obama is considered a conservative. (Read the whole 10 part series from the 2009 protest here.)

We are going to have a blast as an evangelism team, because—Hoo-Boy!—these people need the Lord.

At a previous time we were able to get Gospel tracts into most of the demonstrators hands; see the creative way we did it below:

If you’d like to get an overview of what the whole event looks like from a preacher’s perspective—all the yelling, screaming, anger and foolishness, and this from the marchers—watch this next video:

ALL HANDS ON DECK! WE NEED YOU TO COME THIS SATURDAY!!! Here’s the agenda and meeting times:

Evangelism Adventures for March

Saturday, March 5th: Evangelism Adventure @ Venice Beach:
Meet at Hope Chapel at Noon, eat pizza, pray and then go out to share our faith. We leave promptly at 12:30 pm, returning by 5:30 pm.

Saturday, March 12th: Evangelism Adventure @ St. Patrick’s Day Parade: Meet at Hope Chapel at SPECIAL TIME 9:00 am, and then we walk down to the parade in Hermosa Beach. Parade starts at 11:00.