Destinations: Arab-American Festival

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Last year when we went to our local Arab-American event we were filled with no small amount of fear and trembling; after all, we had seen the video of an evangelism team persecuted at a similar festival in Michigan a few months before.

I asked my co-leader, Tom Nance-Ulrich (who has gone to many of these), what we should watch out for in this fair of predominantly Muslim people. “If the leaders figure out that you are an evangelist,” he cautioned, “they will send a guy over to ask you lots of questions to waste your time so that you can’t share your faith while in the festival.”

With eyes wide open we entered through the gates and traveled two-by-two.

After a couple of hours of conversations with friendly people and hundreds of Gospel tracts handed out, we noticed that Tom was missing. In fact, we hadn’t seen him since he issued that fateful warning to us—and it was time to go home.

“Where’s Tom? Anybody seen Tom? Toooommmmm?!!!!!”

Tom slowly emerged from behind a booth and joined us.

“Where were you, Tom? We  couldn’t find you and wondered what happened?”

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Destinations: Redondo Beach Pier

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This is the easiest place to share your faith. People are friendly and willing to chat about anything; except for the guy in the 2 minute video below. Sometimes things can indeed go wrong….

Meet @ noon @ Hope Chapel to carpool.

Next week: Muslim Festival time!!!

And remember, I’m teaching a 1-Day evangelism class on September 25, and another 6 week class starting on September 30. For details, continue reading….

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Destinations in September/Fiesta Hermosa!

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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…

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