Saturday, May 17th, 2008, we had the opportunity to help our home church, Pleasant Prairie Baptist Church, with their annual outreach ministry called "Rodeo Roundup."Rodeo Roundup was an outreach that was envisioned by Pleasant Prairie's pastor, Jim Tompkins, as a community event that targets children, teens, and adults with rodeo "events" such as a stick horse barrel race and cow patty toss. In addition to the events the church also had a moonwalk, a Mighty Bucky (a bronc and bull simulator on loan from the Fellowship of Christian Cowboys), cotton candy and all the major components of a local fair.
While we had thirty or so Pleasant Prairie members to help with each station there were probably 50-60 families that visited. While Pleasant Prairie uses this outreach as an opportunity to let local people see our church in outreach action it was, more importantly, an opportunity to present the Gospel to a large group of families.
Our pastor asked me to give a short devotion with a Gospel presentation about halfway through the day's activities. The passage that I preached from was Judges 16 and the account of Sampson and Delilah. This is a message that I preach quite often in outreach settings as it is a great account of a man's weaknesses, his fall, his repentance, and how the Lord was able to use him in his confessed state to achieve a mighty goal. I believe that Samson's story is one that believers and unbelievers alike can relate to and one that can help challenge anyone to develop a strong and healthy relationship with the Lord.
As with many of our outreach ministries, the Lord will show us the fruit (if He wills) over the next few weeks, months, and years. Please continue to be in prayer for those that heard Gospel for the first time and either made a commitment or felt the Holy Spirit's prodding - that they will take a bold step to contact our church as they attempt to develop a relationship with Christ.
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