Evangelism Training and Outreach Next Week at Calvary Chapel, O'Hare

We have some great events coming up at our church this weekend that we're praying will help encourage and equip our body to be more effective in sharing their faith, as well as lead people to Christ by preaching the gospel to the unsaved in our neighborhood.  Ministry through Mystery, an evangelism team that has traveled throughout the US and other countries and led thousands to Christ, will be conducting a training this Friday (June 18th) at our church (Calvary Chapel, O'Hare in Franklin Park) on "Equipping to Evangelize Using Illusion". 

They will be encouraging and equipping us to share the gospel more effectively, including using simple pocket magic tricks as "ice-breakers" to get a conversation started with unbelievers and to demonstrate principles of the gospel message. I believe this would be particularly effective in open-air (street) evangelism. I know this will take a lot of practice to learn these methods and incorporate them naturally in witnessing conversations, so we're planning on having some follow-up trainings available for those who attend from our church, and other churches and ministries. 

If anyone reading this is in the Chicago metro area, and would like to learn more or to attend, please contact me using the email option in the "About Me" tab below, right. (There are several other evangelism training and outreach events we will be involved in this summer and early fall--including more open air evangelism, possibly in downtown Chicago, as well as the Harvest Crusade with Greg Laurie at the Allstate Arena--in which anyone from the area would be welcome to participate. For more information about these events, please contact me the same way).

The next day, Saturday, we are helping to organize a block party on our block and inviting the neighbors from the surrounding streets. The Ministry through Mystery team will do a magic show that will involve preaching the gospel. Our prayer is that the Word of God go forth and bring lost people to Christ, and that all glory will go to God. 

I will post an update on the training and the block party event soon afterwards.