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You Got The Hell Part Right

Ministry Update October 7, 2025

Allen, four people from his church (including his pastor) and I witnessed at Missouri State University on October 1, 2025. Allen and Ben – a pastor brought messages and we handed out Why Christianity booklets from Living Waters. Most of the students were very pleasant and most of them took one. Allen had one encourager while he was open-air preaching.  One student told me, “I don’t want your God.” I replied, “Jesus is the only Savior. That’s why we plead with people to repent and trust Jesus.”

Then another student asked what I was handing out and I told him it was a Gospel tract, that it tells you about Jesus. He replied, “Hell no.” I replied, “You have the Hell part right. We don’t want you to die in your sins and go to Hell. Repent and believe the Gospel.” But overall, it was a very pleasant time of witnessing and we handed out around 300 booklets. One funny thing that happened was Allen blew his Shofar horn and I guess it wasn’t allowed at the spot we were at because of classes next door. But someone saw it in his hand and mistakenly thought it was a weapon, so security came over and talked to us. One of the security guards is an old high school classmate of mine, so we caught up a little bit and they just told  Allen that he couldn’t blow his horn.

A Lot Going On Downtown Friday Night

Doug, Justin and I witnessed downtown Friday night October 3, 2025. The police had the street blocked off at Jefferson and St. Louis St., where we normally meet and there was a DJ with a loud speaker at the park and some kind of art work in one of the parking lots as well as a skate park in another lot. It was really loud there (and the flashing lights bothered Doug and I), so we walked around and handed out tracts. A few people were lined up outside The Regency, so we handed out some tracts there.

We walked around downtown and handed out tracts as we went. When we walked back by The Regency, the crowd was now backed up about a block and a half. So we handed out more tracts and I just lifted up the Bible and did basically stoplight preaching as I walked by the crowd. Several people said Amen (and seemed serious). Toward the end of the line, one girl said Hallelujah (but seemed to be mocking). I asked the crowd who they were waiting to see and a girl yelled out, “Lil Skies.” She said that he’s a rapper. I have no idea who he is, but he seemed very popular. Overall, it was a good night and several tracts went out.

Open Air For The First Time

On September 26, 2025, Brad, Doug, Justin and I witnessed downtown. Immediately Brad got into a conversation on the square with another veteran and they talked for about 45 minutes. It had been quite a while since Brad had been out with us, but it was great having him there and we praise God for the conversation. There was a guy who appeared to be high, dancing at the stage area where we normally preach when we do so on the square. Thankfully, Doug noticed him, so I went to a different corner and brought a message there. Shortly after that, Mark and Dave showed up and they were handing out bottles of water. I showed Mark how to open-air preach the week before and praise God, he stood up and brought a message this time. It was encouraging to me, so I brought another message after he finished up.

Doug and Justin handed out tracts downtown like we normally do. After Doug left and I was heading back to my vehicle, I heard a guy cussing loudly. It turns out that it was dancing guy who was high and may have even had some demonic activity going on. I just ignored him and kept walking to my vehicle. But he was near Justin and Justin was handing out tracts. He said the yelling guy was scaring everyone around them, so Justin said most of the people took tracts from him. We praise God for that, for Brad’s long conversation and for Mark’s first time open-air preaching. May God be glorified in all of this.

(These updates are given to encourage Christians to share the glorious Gospel with others. Jesus told us to pray for more laborers and He also commanded us to go and preach the Gospel. Every believer should be sharing their faith in Jesus with others. We hope and pray that these updates encourage you to do so.)