1)  The Georgia National Fair is just two months away. Please pray about being a part of this important outreach this year. The dates are October 5-15. The shift times are 10am -2pm / 2pm – 6pm / 6pm -10 pm. Select the sign up tab on the website and put in the time or times you can help. Let’s be about the LORD’s business. Telling others about God’s Salvation through Jesus!
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2)  I was almost out of the handy bags we give to the people that come through the tent. I really like how they effectively hold the gifts we give them while also advertising The Wordless Book Story. These bags are very expensive. I did not have it in the budget to purchase them this year. Thanks to Mary Kryk, that problem is solved! Mary arranged to supply 7,000 English and 1,000 Spanish bags! What a tremendous and generous way to help the ministry.  Thank you Mary and may God continue to bless you and Premiere Staffing!

3)  For anyone who needs training or refresher training in the Wordless Book method, a training session is scheduled for Tuesday, 8 August at Houston Lake Baptist Church at 2300 Hwy 127 East, Perry, GA 31069 at 6:30 PM until 8:00 PM. Bring some new recruits!

I am holding a Wordless Book Ministry Meeting on Thursday, May 25th at 6:30 pm. It will be at 206 Blue Meadow Circle, Kathleen, GA. 31047 a light snack will be provided. We will spend about an hour getting caught up and tossing out ideas. We are beginning prep for the 2023 GNF. I have sent out invites, but if you are reading this, you are welcome to join in! 

Please pray for me tomorrow morning as I am conducting a Wordless Book information session. It will be at Friendship Baptist from 9:55 to 10:45 am. I am praying the Lord will bless this effort and cause many people who attend to “Catch the Vision” and come help this October at the Wordless Book Tent at the Georgia National Fair! October 5-15th.

It has been a month since the GNF has ended. Much has happened in the interim. The tent was taken down and cleaned. The carpets were also cleaned. The ministry materials were gathered and inventoried. All of the ministry materials and supplies were carefully placed back into the ministry trailer where they will wait until the 2023 GNF. My apologies for taking so long to get out a post, but I have been ill and had some unexpected out of state travel. But, I am back and wanted to post the results on the blog.

The GNF was well attended with well over 500,000 people coming to the fair. We recorded 3929 who came in and heard the story. The number is a bit lower than what we would consider a "normal" fair, but I believe that many were not recorded. We had a lot of new storytellers this year and some forgot to record who they talked to. Based upon my many years of fair experience and the ministry materials inventory, I estimate we are under reported by about 10%. God knows the numbers even if we do not! We will just make sure we do not underestimate our supplies for next year. We will begin preparations in January for the 2023 GNF.

The recorded results are 929 salvations. Of these, 263 were children, 478 were teens, and 188 were adults. What a harvest! Before the GNF, these people were LOST, headed for a sinner's hell! Now Jesus is preparing their mansion in Heaven! Praise God! Below are just a few of the tent workers from 2022.

The Georgia National Fair has arrived! At 3:00 this afternoon, the gates open and the harvest will arrive! Be a part of the action over the next eleven days. Catch the Vision! The harvest is ripe! Tell people about the wonderful Good News of Jesus Christ. YOU could change someone's life forever by just sharing the Wordless Book. 

There will be a Wordless Book Fair Ministry training session at Unity Baptist Church at 5:30 PM on Sunday, September 4th. Unity Baptist is located at 479 Highway 96, Bonaire, Georgia. The session is designed to train both people new to the ministry and provide refresher training for those who have done the ministry before. We will conduct practice telling of the Wordless Book method so the more who attend will aid in the breakout groupings. So, bring a friend or two.

We have a prayer group praying for this year's Georgia National Fair each Tuesday night at 5:45 PM. There is strength in numbers and the more people who pray will amplify the petitions. If you want to be a part of the prayer group, you can pray for the harvest at the fair and all of the needs required to support the ministry at the same time we are praying. God can put it all together!

Here is the actual testimony of a young man whose life was forever changed because of the Gospel Story he heard in a small tent at the Georgia National Fair in 2009. His life since his conversion that year is truly a clear example of the power of the Gospel. The Holy Spirit draws us to Christ, convicts us of our sins, and indwells us when we repent and receive Christ.

The Georgia National Fair (GNF) Mission Team's main planning focus for 2022 is ask, seek, and knock. In January, the team met to "Ask." The team prayerfully asked God for guidance and His blessing for the 2022 GNF with a goal of desiring to do His will in all we say and do. Seeking also His protection from the Enemy and His Grace as we go forward in the planning.

The GNF Mission Team met again in early March to "Seek." The team brainstormed ideas for how to recover from the complacency and apathy concerning evangelism stemming from the constraints imposed by the COVID pandemic. The team began a "deep dig" into the records for the past seven years and developed a list of past and potential missionaries. The team divided the list to initiate contact. The team also planned to do a set of very short video statements from GNF missionaries highlighting personal GNF experiences of strong evangelical impact.

The GNF missionary team will meet again in April to "Knock." Each team member will report on his/her contact with those on the past and potential missionary list. The planned video statements will also be recorded. Pray that the contact list will yield a great number of missionaries ready to Catch The Vision!