PSU Campus Ministry Report

Last week, on February 8th, we went to the PSU campus in Portland to pass out tracts and preach the gospel. I met with Pavel, his brother in law and a young lady from Saint-Petersburg, Russia, Nadezhda. Brother Pavel is from the Ukraine. We met him and his group last year while preaching down at the Skidmore fountain.

Brother Pavel preached the gospel in the face of sever mocking and ridicule for nearly an hour! I praise the Lord for this good brother who loves the Lord Jesus Christ and His kingdom. The young man that did most of the mocking took his place along side of Pavel, (Paul) and basically tried to disrupt the preaching of the gospel. But God granted Brother Paul grace to lovingly continue on preaching, talking and discussing with the people. Paul maintained a spirit of compassion and even respect toward the dedicated heckler! At one point the heckler asked to give Paul a hug! Pray for this young man (the heckler)...he has a great determination, that the Lord would call he him to life.

Lord, please glorify your name in this young man! Call him to life and ministry to magnify your eternal purpose before the unbelievers at the PSU campus!

Nadezhda, we would say Natasha, was out doing open air ministry for the first time! She reported to me that she felt the Lord calling her to travel and to do gospel ministry where ever the Lord would lead. Paul took the opportunity to invite Natasha to be with us and introduce her to biblical evangelism. She handed out tracts with an information page on the reasons to believe and to read the scriptures. The material was taken from Brother Ray Comfort's 'Evidence Bible'.

I was giving out material from the 'Back to Genesis' ministry, discussing the Mt St. Helen's eruption and how the evidence from the event support the record of Genesis 1-11. I even had a young man come back and thank for handing out 'substantive material'...the best he had seen and so on. I was quite shocked to be honest with you! PSU is very much in opposition to any thing Christian. Of course there was a gospel tract in each one with our church information. Every thing we do is an extension of the local church. We are striving to win souls and offer a church home for them to grow and serve.

Some may ask, "What kind of success do you have?" Well not much that we know of. I do not think we have had one person come to church as a direct result of street ministry. But we are not doing this for pragmatic reasons. We are preaching the Gospel in obedience to our Jesus Christ. We could ask the same question of Ezekiel, or Jeremiah! We are living in such times. Jeremiah was thrown in a pit for his faithfulness. But there is always a remnant of people who will follow the Lord. In this time of national sin and decline, it is important for the church to 'lift up the voice and cry out! God help us to be faithful to our calling. Time is Short!

So if you would like to come out with us, please contact me via e-mail. If you would like to pray for us in 'real time' while we are on the street please contact me via e-mail and I'll put you on our contact list...either e-mail or text. I hope to post some video of this event...it will be coming soon.

Stay tuned and pray for Portland....