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I am a member in Lufkin, Texas, and I attended the Evangelism Explosion clinic in Houston, Texas, Oct. 20 to 25.
Thanks to that clinic, evangelism doesn't scare me anymore. I now have confidence and can talk to someone about their salvation. On Nov. 8 I had the great joy to talk to a young man and help lead him to Christ. We all know that the Holy Spirit does the evangelizing, but he allows us to receive the joy from it.
I encourage anyone who has the opportunity to attend an Evangelism Explosion clinic, either the six day teacher-trainer clinic or the 13 week clinic, to do so. The work in the clinic will not compare with the benefits.
In the Lufkin church we started our 13-week clinic Nov. 5. After just one class everyone is excited. In Matthew 28:19-20, Jesus was not talking to headquarters or just to the pastors, he was talking to everyone who believes in the risen Christ. We are all evangelists to one degree or another.
Kenn Allbright
Lufkin, Texas
I want to compliment those who wrote the excellent articles about teen ministry in the October WN. I am so encouraged about what I see happening in the WCG.
I am in total agreement with Ted Johnston's two-part mission for teen ministry (page 17). Our youths are in the middle of perhaps one of the greatest youth revivals this world has ever seen. They have exceptional opportunities to serve, witness and convert others. But it is up to us, the church, to disciple them.
As I read the article about the reconciliation service in Fort Worth, Texas, I was close to tears (of joy). How encouraging and uplifting to see such total surrender to the Holy Spirit.
James Cramer
Waldron, Michigan
I was pleased to receive Mike Feazell's booklet "Finding Peace in Christ." Here I was saving all the WN articles he had written and trying to get them in order to be copied and all put together. Then his booklet arrived in the mail.
I save many of the WN feature articles including Mr. Tkach's Personal. Many are interested in the web site articles but are not equipped to receive them. So, here in Big Sandy, Pastor David Orban has OK'd our efforts to make copies available in handout form of the series of articles most people are interested in.
Nadine Van Laecken
Big Sandy, Texas
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