Ideas For Evangelism - Way of Life Literature

We invested in a nice Bar-B-Q grill, and beganpraying for our lost relatives and neighbors. The nextthing we did was to quit Thursday night visitation.This was done after much prayer and talking to ourpastor. We simply did not find it effective and wantedto bring forth fruit that would remain, rather thansimply knock doors because it is ‘the way it is done.’We began to invite neighbors over for dinner,sometimes on Thursday nights but also on Fridaysor Saturdays as this seemed to fit into theirschedules better. True, many neighbors were busy,but we found that if we kept at it we can get variousones to come over. After having them over for foodand sometimes games, we would begin witnessingto them. Sometimes we watch a Creation ScienceDVD or a good Christian film with them. Other timeswe have a Bible study. We’ve gone on picnics, andwith more interested ones, even on overnightcampouts. Near Christmas, because we have a lotof snow in our area, we have a big snowmanbuilding contest. For this I cook huge pots of chili,make homemade cornbread, pies, apple cider, etc.We try to award nice gifts for the family that makesthe best snowman within one half hour. Each yearthe competition has gotten stiffer and the snowmenmore creative. This has been very popular and weoften have ten or more families involved. We findthat doing something like this in the winter causeseven the immodest neighborhood girls to come fullycovered, and in this way we can include a fewfamilies we would otherwise not be able to invite.After this we gather around a huge bonfire while myhusband shares the real meaning of Christmas withthese lost neighbors. We always take this time toinvite the people to a special Christmas cantata atour church and many of them come.I could go on and on about the creative ways myhusband has come up with to share the gospel withour neighbors. But methods aren’t the end inthemselves and our family has a monthly day offasting and prayer for those to whom we arepresenting the gospel. We encourage our children toallow the Lord to lay some particular person on theirhearts and to especially pray for that person’ssalvation. EVERY evening we pray for theseoutreaches. We have tried to keep two things before130