Evangelism Update: Longmont, Colorado Series

Pastor Victor Gill and I traveled to Colorado for his most recent sermon series. We arrived in Denver on February 19, 2013. Our series was held in Longmont, Colorado at the First Baptist Church, which the Vista Seventh-day Adventist Church rents each week for their worship services.

The Vista SDA Church has two evangelistic series every year. The church has grown from a very small group to about seventy-five members to date. The whole church is very involved in evangelism in their city and surrounding areas.

The first evening, the twenty-five non-members present received the message of Daniel 2 well. We were pleasantly surprised to find that three of our guests were former Seventh-day Adventists. There were a number of people present who had attended the previous series and some newly baptized members came to hear the message again and to become better acquainted with the messages of the Three Angels.

We were very delighted to see many of these people returning night after night. We prayed often for each of them by name. In addition to daily prayer, Victor set aside two days a week to fast and pray for those who were coming to the meetings.

We were delighted to see some people bringing their friends and family members. Others stopped coming altogether. This saddened us, but we continued to pray for them. We contacted many of these people by phone and visited some of them to encourage them to continue to come and hear the last warning message for this world.

Some of our guests had real issues to overcome. One young lady is an alcoholic and needed special prayer for her addiction. We visited her and prayed for her, claiming God’s promises of deliverance and victory in her life. As far as we know, she has now been a month without alcohol. We continue to hold her up to the Lord, claiming victory in His name.

Another gentleman, also an alcoholic, claims that ever since he began coming to the meetings he has not had the urge to drink. His wife is so pleased that he doesn’t come home drunk from work anymore! They are both planning on being baptized, but feel they need to study more, as they had missed a number of meetings due to the husband’s work schedule.

Another man, Mark [not his real name], had a grandfather who was a Seventh-day Adventist. This grandfather had been an elder in the church and gave Bible studies to the people in the community. When he died, Mark was the one who got the Bible and all the Bible study filmstrips that his grandfather had used. Mark attended the Vista series and felt God’s Spirit calling to him.

Mark had a smoking problem and really didn’t want to give it up because he enjoyed smoking so much. But by the time the series was over, he had given up his tobacco and was baptized along with his ten-year-old son.

Mark brought his mother along with him to several meetings. She had been a former Seventh-day Adventist, but had drifted away from the Church. At Mark’s baptism, she was moved by the Holy Spirit and told me with tears streaming down her face that she needed to make her commitment to God’s last day message and His remnant Church.

There was an older man who came quite regularly. He had worked for NASA for thirty years and was involved with the US shuttle program. Pastor Gill visited him in his home and learned that his parents had been Seventh-day Adventists. He was very attentive at the meetings and came faithfully until he got the flu. He became very ill before the series was over but we are confident that he will be part of the Vista SDA Church before too long.

On the last Sabbath, we had five baptisms and one attendee was accepted into fellowship by profession of faith. There are another ten whom we believe will be joining shortly and there are many interests that will be followed up. The Vista Seventh-day Adventist Church has a full time Bible worker and a wonderful pastor who will be doing the follow up for this series. The head elder has a Bible Study at his home every Friday evening that will also be a wonderful asset to the follow up that will be happening here.

We thank God for the way He has blessed during this series and we look forward to the time when the loud cry will go out and many more will be gathered in before Christ comes the second time.

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