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| Welcome Birdwell Lane Church Of Christ 11th and Birdwell Lane Big Spring, TX 79720 (432) 267-2132 |
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“Back to the Bible campaign”
June 6-12
Continuing in the forefront of sharing the Gospel!
BIRDWELL LANE ON THE MOVE
June 6-12 the group from Lawton, Ok. “Back to the Bible campaign”. They brought 60 brothers and sisters to help in door knocking and holding studies. Their preacher Monte Jinnings will be speaking each evening at 7:30 p.m. There will be twenty-two coming in from San Angelo and 12 so far from the Midland - Odessa area to help in door knocking and studies. The Birdwell church will be providing two meals a day for 100 brothers and sisters who will be working with us to make this a success. A list of areas where you can serve during our campaign will be posted within the next two weeks. Thanks for volunteering ahead of time.http://www.birdwelllanechurchofchrist.org/
This is a bilingual effort consisting of Birdwell’s own Spanish Iglesia de Cristo who is ministered by Ezequiel Banda seen in the baptistery here.
The Back to the Bible group is out of Lawton Oklahoma Church of Christ http://www.nwcoclawton.org/.
From my desk to your heart…
THE END OF A BUSY WEEK
Our “Back to the Bible” campaign will be over by the time you read this article. The past five days have been filled with excitement and work but what a great experience. The numbers of folks who have given of their time and energy to make the campaign a success has been unbelievable.
We have had eight to twelve members of Birdwell Lane out knocking doors with the Lawton brethren every day. They have been paired with those who went on studies and made visits working to fulfill the Lord’s commands. Others have been responsible for driving the teams to studies or picking up others who came to the building to study. Our ladies and young ladies have served in taking care of the nursery so that their parents could knock doors or go on studies. Classes were prepared and provided for our young kids which kept them involved in one way or another so that their parents could work in so many areas of service during the week .Others have made certain that the coolers were kept full of ice and cold water. Others have taken care of the physical plant so that it stayed presentable for the preaching service each evening. Then there were the ladies who prepared food for and served about one hundred and thirty campaign workers twice a day. The fed us like we were kings. We were served meal which were well planned and deliciously prepared. Then there were those who cleaned the kitchen following each meal and prepared it for the next round. Enough can never be said for the way they took care of keeping us going.
Now for the results of that which was the primary focus and reason for all of the above. Starting Saturday morning every door in Big Spring has been knocked. There were 9000 flyers handed to individuals or left on the doors of homes where folks did not answer the door. Over 2000 Spanish flyers were also handed out. An average of 45 studies were set up each day and starting on Sunday 40+ actual studies were held each day. There has at this point three restored and fifteen have been baptized for the remission of their sins and added to the Lord’s church. When the brethren from Lawton finish their work Wednesday night the will leave us with well over a hundred classes to be taught and 200+ call backs and follow up visits to be made. Our work is definitely cut out for the next foreseeable future.
To the Birdwell Lane congregation there is nothing that can be said which would truly express how I’m feeling at this time. To the elders, THANK YOU for allowing this to happen. To each and everyone who worked solid for five day to make this campaign a success THANK YOU. To just stand back and witness what has happened thrills and encourages me and must make the angels in heaven rejoice. God has truly been glorified and Christ exaulted.
To the Highway 80 and 14th and Main churches of Christ THANK YOU for allowing us the use of your vans this past week. I know I have missed some in saying THANK YOU but just know that without all working together our week would have been a failure rather than a success. THANKS!
See ya Sunday, Ralph
