Saturday, April 11, 2009
Today was a good day of working for the LORD and a modernized attempt to get the gospel to the masses via the internet.
Before I explain what we did, allow me to share the history behind what we were able to do today.
June 23, 1986--at that time we lived in Astoria Queens, NY. At the time, we were so small, that we couldn't afford to rent a place for services. We met in our apartment once-a-week for Bible study, which we conducted like a regular church service. There was singing, prayers, fellowship, and sermons.
To be public, and open to guests, we would meet as a group on the same street corner at the same time every Sunday. The address was printed on all our tracts. Obviously, only the serious enquirers showed-up. After waiting a reasonable amount of time, usually 15 - 30 min. we would walk back to our apartment for some light refreshments and church.
Always on the lookout for interesting or different ways to get people's attention, Pastor Bob got the idea to start a phone ministry.
Pastor Bob's idea was to record a short gospel message on an answering machine. This was a painstaking process. There were no hi-tech gizmos available to help us. Pastor Bob would write up his sermon. It had to be exactly 3 minutes or the cassette which played on a loop would record over the beginning of the message.
We also had business cards printed up with the title of the message or a catchy short phrase or question that would peak the curiousity of those who found the cards, and phone number. When the message and cards were ready to go, we would make a "midnight raid". Literally. With rolls of scotch tape and stacks of cards, we would go to areas that were busy by day, and tape these cards to doors, storefront gates and windows, apartment building entrances, parking meters, etc. Any place we could tape them without causing damage to property, we put them up.
By the time we arrived home after our raid, the phone was already ringing off the hook. Hundreds of calls came in after these raids.
Though we don't know if anyone ever got saved as a result of this ministry, MANY people heard part or all of the Gospel.
A total of 5 messages were done.
Speeding up to the present day, we still have the original cassettes these messages were recorded on. They have been digitized, and today they have been put back into use.
If you would like to listen to any, or all of them; please follow the individual links below. Share them with your friends, relatives, acquaitance. Feel free to link your website or blog to them too.
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