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Part 5: The 12-Step Program for Parades

Dec 11, 2008Steve Sanchez1 CommentEv Tips/Tools, How to...

Parades are a blast. If you are an evangelist you should be excited at the fact that you can reach thousands upon thousands of people with the Gospel in just a few hours with tracts and pre-parade preaching. At the Hollywood Santa Parade our team of thirteen handed out close to 15 thousand tracts! But when

Pt. 4: The 12-Step Program for Parades

Dec 10, 2008Steve Sanchez5 CommentsHow to..., Open Air, PERSECUTED!

The problem with the police can be blamed on Little Mike. He wasn’t aware of the trouble he caused. And we can’t tell him a thing because he won’t listen to a word; all he does is mouth off… He also comes from a family of trouble-makers: (Ya gotta read the first parts of this story

Part 3: The 12-Step Program for Parades

Dec 9, 2008Steve Sanchez3 CommentsEv Tips/Tools, How to..., Open Air, PERSECUTED!

I had a dilemma. The police had told us to stop preaching to the spectators at the Hollywood Santa Parade because, in their words, we were “scaring the kids.” They admitted that we had “free speech rights” even at the parade, but they were going to shut us down anyway. What should I, as the

Pt. 2: The 12-Step Program for Parades

Dec 8, 2008Steve Sanchez8 CommentsEv Tips/Tools, How to..., Open Air, PERSECUTED!

The best part of Pre-Parade Preaching are the crowds. Lots of people, happy people, expectant and excited, anticipating that the parade will start at any moment. I look at our evangelism efforts as the warm-up act, the pre-show. Think about it: There are thousands of organic congregations along the parade route. Why not preach to them? (Read

The 12-Step Program for Parades, Part 1

Dec 5, 2008Steve Sanchez4 CommentsE-vangie Tales, Ev Tips/Tools, How to...

Here is a 12-step primer on how to evangelize at any parade. After this series, you will be linked to six other parades, including a gay pride parade and a radical left wing anti-war protest. Step 1: Find a parade. Don’t laugh. Many have tried preaching to a line of elderly people on a walking tour,