New York Trip 2008
January 16, 2008
Sharon and I recently returned from the Ranch’s annual evangelistic outreach to New York City. We were part of an 18 member team. We set up “Prayer Stations,” invited people to let us pray with them about various needs in their lives, handed out literature with a Gospel message on in, and shared the Good News of Salvation to people in the Subway. Sharon had the opportunity to lead two women though the plan of salvation and saw them saved! I also, along with another team member, we were able to show a man, from the Bible, that he could know for sure he was headed to heaven. This man had much head knowledge. In fact, he recited several scripture verses to me as I led him though a Gospel tract. He knew how to be saved, but he had never trusted in Christ for himself. It was a blessing to see the joy this man had once he realized that “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life.”
Sharon and I also enjoyed seeing the sites of New York City. The first night there we saw Times Square, Grand Central Station, and the Empire State Building along with many other things along the way. Much of the site seeing was at night because we were in the Subway during the day, but the last day we had a few hours in the afternoon to explore on our own. We visited Ground Zero, walked down part of Wall Street, road the ferry to Statton Island and back, traversed the Subway system without the guidance of our seasoned team members, got lost in the Rockefeller Center, and shared a slice of genuine New York cheese cake!
We would love to go again some day.
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January 22nd, 2008 at 1:25 am
Hi Paul. Here is the comment you requested. Great story! I don’t know if anyone came to Christ as a result of me going to NYC, but I did pass out a lot of tracts. NYC is amazing! Next time, visit Queens and see Little India and that park that was in Men in Black — Flushing Meadows–Corona Park. That’s where we saw Billy Graham.
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:47 am
Good to know you had an effective ministry there!
Great pictures. Congratulations on taking hundreds of pictures in NYC and not having your camera lifted! Did you have the camera strap sutured to your neck? The long exposures are nice. I guess they were kind of necessary for non-flash shots in the subway, but the motion effect was cool. You should try selling some of these on istockphoto.com — ones like the stack of potato sacks.
I only saw you in the group photo, but plenty of the back of Sharon’s head. What was that place where everyone was sitting on the floor before the group photo?
Kind of funny to see Dr. Rice and the other Tennessee hill billies at the subway station. Did any of the natives ask to have their pictures taken with you?