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The Well Mid-Tour Update |
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 So here I am on the Santa Barbara City
College campus hearing the words "go into all the world" and "the
harvest is plentiful" ringing in my soul.
Our Project Truth team was overwhelmed during our
Central Coast Tour of four colleges and seven high
schools. We handed out thousands of pieces of
literature and Gospel tracts to willing students over a four-day
period.
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The tour had some challenges, including this moment on the
Cuesta College campus when the officer was preparing to arrest
me for violating the policy of the college by setting up our
display outside their free-speech zone. I stood our
ground and told him that the zone they wanted to place us in would
only allow us to talk to the squirrels because their zone was
designed to limit our access to engaging the students.
Our team watched and stood strong as the Spirit of God
worked among the police and they backed down right before our eyes.
It was surreal.
The campus was stirred by our presence, with some students
coming to our defense. The dialogue with the students was powerful
throughout the day.
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The middle of the quad.
For some reason the Administration did not want us in this
location.
Go figure!
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An unusual event occurred when we were on the Cal Poly campus.
These women from the local Planned Parenthood set up shop right
next to our display.
They behaved and reluctantly took some of our literature,
as you can see one of their own
reading our material. I challenged them to find
anything in our presentation that was incorrect. The only thing
that they could complain about was our disturbing photos. I
reminded them that "they" are the industry that produces those
disturbing photos.
It was a great day on the campus with only three students
going to the P.P. table in four hours versus hundreds of students
accepting our materials and dialoguing with our team during that
time. We usually hand out one to three thousand pieces of
literature at each school.
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The Survivors Team of six young
adults who do college visits similiar to us, joined us all week,
which made for a powerful, effective team of twelve voices
for the preborn. Here, a number of
students at Hancock College in Santa Maria listen as Kristina
proclaims the truth about the voiceless babies.
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At the local high schools we targeted, most teens were willing
to take our literature, like these girls at Santa Maria High. We
emptied our box and over six hundred teens received the truth about
abortion.
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There were many divine
appointments for our abolitionists to give out the Gospel as
well, throughout the time on each college campus.
I sat down to eat lunch at Hancock
College and two students sat down at the same table. They started
reading out loud the Gospel tracts Bernard had given to them
earlier. When they finished, I asked them what they thought of the
challenge posed in the tract. The two quickly became six students
as we began a conversation into the difference in our worldviews.
What was really exciting was that these young people were
Mayan Indians.
I had my work cut out, for these
students were very intelligent and had been brainwashed to hate
America and "George Bush type Christians," as they said. It was
tough to stay on focus, but the Holy Spirit was keeping me in the
moment as I was able to introduce these interesting young people to
the real Jesus Christ.
As you can see, they each agreed
to accept the book "One Heartbeat Away" to get a better
understanding of the real Faith. Their leader also agreed
to read Romans and the Gospel of John.
I want to say this was the
highlight of the tour, but these stories were happening to our
whole team throughout the
week.
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Here, John, Sharon and Hanna are in deep dialogue with two
Santa Barbara College students, who went from hostile, to a point
of conviction by the Holy Spirit during about a half hour of
the truth taking on error. The
young man agreed to seriously consider the claims of Christ.
The help we got from the Survivors team made these
moments more possible with the large crowds of students passing by
our display.
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Yes, that's the Pacific Ocean in the background. Nice place
to set up our presentation!!
We were also blessed by a Santa Maria family who provided us
with free lodging in Pismo Beach all week. The Prolife leadership
in that area treated us royally and we experienced God's provision
in abundance through His people.
Our team has experienced the recession firsthand and yet we
also know this is an outreach that has God's hands and
heart all over it. So we stepped out in faith to go on
this roadtrip and He provided all the way!!
Thank you Central Coast Prolifers for helping make
this outreach a great success.
There is so much more that happened, but I must put on the
armor for tomorrow's stand on the Cal State Hayward campus.
I will send video footage of some of our campus moments and
will share more stories with you in the next letter. The stories
are piling up.
Here is the tour at a glance:
August 30-31, Sept.1
American River College-Sacramento
September 7-8 Butte College-Oroville
September 13-14
San Jose
State
September
20-21
Sacramento State
September 27-30 Central
Coast
Monday-Hancock College-Santa
Maria
Tuesday-Santa Barbara City
College
Wednesday-Cal Poly
Thursday-Cuesta College-San Luis Obispo
October
6-7 Cal State
Hayward
October
12-13 Chico
State
October
19-20 San Francisco City
College
November 9-10 Fresno City College
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In humility, correcting those
in opposition,
So God might grant them
repentance,
So that they might know the
truth,
And come to their
senses,
And escape the snare of the
devil,
Having been taken captive
by
him, to
do his will. 2 Timothy
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In
His Steps,
Don
Don
Blythe
At the Well Ministries,
Inc.
P.O. Box
78025
Thank you faithful
NorCal friends for keeping me in the "harvest field" with you
prayers and support!!! |
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