ideas for the next several summers

Two weeks ago, our outreach efforts culminated in 99 baptisms (that's the number as of this week). I cannot imagine a more exciting week.

Unless maybe ...

Johannes, Peter, and I had a lunch after the leadership training that Saturday morning two weeks ago. During that lunch, we started dreaming together about what more we could do to reach people next summer when they come back (June 18-21). And then we also talked about the year after that.

Next year, we would like to do a "Harvest Cry" event such as they do it Norway. This is a full fledged effort at reaching people through outreach events of every kind, including witnessing teams, flyering, mini-outreach events in various towns, prayer events, and so much more. Evening evangelism meetings would feature cutting edge cultural events, bands, and everything else we can think of to help people see God for who He is.

Then the next year (or year after if we cannot pull it off this soon), we would like to do a "Signs & Wonders" festival; the kind that results in numbers of churches being planted. and hundreds of souls coming into the Kingdom. We would like to share this with other church, perhaps some of which can adopt one (or more) of the church plants for their own, launching the Kingdom of God to a whole new level in our community.

ARDA.com has listed Adams county as one of the few counties in the nation where we have grown in percentage of people attending church in the past 10 years. I wonder what would happen if we became one of the few counties where the church attending market share grew a lot in the next 10! Maybe it could spread to other counties or communities in the US!

They say "it can't be done" here in the US, like it is around the world in Johannes meetings. Maybe it can! But we might never know unless we try.

To pull this off of course, we will need a lot of things. We'll need to talk more about that as we march forward.