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Volume 3, Number 6
February 11, 2009
Greetings!

This week we had some awesome one on one witnessing experiences. We also held a Basic Evangelism Training Seminar and attended the Immersion Excursion at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church.
Immersion Excursion
Biggs and Aldrich GSQs Cross Pollination Ministries
Friday night and Saturday I attended the Immersion Excursion at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church put on by Brad Aldrich of Cross Pollination Ministries. Brad provided hands on training with a lot of role play. We had a witnessing trip to The Shops at Legacy in Plano where I had a number of one on one witnessing encounters for nearly two straight hours. At one point I was talking with a group of seven high school kids. It was a true joy to be able to share the truth of God's Word with them (more on this below). Another group was doing "exit interviews" outside of the Angelika Theater asking if the movie they saw had "any redeeming value" and then using that as a spring board to the Gospel. These exit interviews were being recorded on camera for use on YouTube and other training sessions. On Saturday morning, Pastor Biggs joined us and gave us some training on using God Sized Questions (or GSQ's) to start engaging conversations with people in our lives to get them thinking about God. On Saturday afternoon we learned about praying Tom at Housefor our neighbors, then we went out to a neighborhood in North Dallas and went door to door gathering prayer requests for a prayer meeting. Once we gathered a prayer request from someone we told them that we were training people in evangelism and asked them if we could role play with them about spiritual things. This opened the door to talking with a number of people. We ended up back at the church praying over some twenty or so prayer requests. The idea is to go back and visit these same people in three weeks and ask for updates on these prayer requests. This is a method we can truly build into our witnessing efforts to reach our neighborhoods for Christ! If you have a chance to attend a Cross Pollination Ministries Immersion Excursion, I highly recommend that you make the time to do it!

Prayer Request
For months we have been praying for money to rent some billboards to advertise the www.AfterLifeCatalog.com website. We have been nominated to receive some money from a trust fund. This money would be enough to put up several such billboards. Please pray for this. We should hear something by mid-March!
Witnessing Tip
The Board Movie Night with your Friends
While talking with the group of teens at the Shops at Legacy on Friday night, it turned out that one of them is Muslim. He told me that he was offended by what I had said about his faith (trying to get to heaven by good works). Then his friend said he was upset that I had offended his best friend. I challenged his friends, asking them why they had never shared the Gospel with him. They said, "no." I asked them what good it is to be best friends here on earth for 40-50 years of life if you are only going to be separated from your friend for all of eternity because they are in hell and you are in heaven. It really made them stop to think.

So let me ask you. Do you have non-Christian friends? What are you doing to share the Gospel with them so that they don't end up in hell?

May I suggest a "movie night". I watched a movie recently called "The Board" on DVD. It is a short movie that portrays a board meeting in a mans mind where he makes decisions about his daily life. The members of this board (Mind, Memory, Emotion, Heart, Will and Conscience) eventually have to deal with what to do with the man who has been witnessing to him!

I am offering to send you a copy of this DVD under one condition: you must watch it with a friend that has not yet repented and trusted in Jesus. Invite them over and tell them something like, "I have heard about this interesting movie, I wonder if you'd watch it with me and let me know your thoughts about it."

The movie can be ordered from One Million Tracts today. A preview is also available on that site. Once you watch the preview, email me if you would like a copy to show to your unsaved friends.

There are other movies available where the Gospel is shared (Fireproof and Facing the Giants) or thought provoking discussion about God could take place like Expelled or The Case for Christ on DVD. The important thing is to get your friend thinking about eternity so you can share Christ with him (or her).
Web Site Updates
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We have made a number of updates to the Bezeugen Ministries web sites in the last couple weeks. If you have not checked it out recently, I'd like to invite you to come check it out. The Tract Club page has been expanded to also include information on where you can order additional tracts. The Discipleship Program page has been expanded to include additonal discipleship information like Bible Reading plans, entertainment resources and recommended churches. A new page highlighting photos from various ministry events is accessible from the updated front page which also included recommended reading materials. We also add new news stories periodically on the front page.
Support our Troops
Iraq War picture Rapid Deployment Kits (RDKs) Brad White shared this information with me and I wanted to pass it on as it is a simply way to be involved in sharing the Gospel. RDKs contain a pocket-sized New Testament with Psalms and Proverbs, a daily devotional, and a booklet that clearly shares the Gospel. These can be ordered online and sent directly to our troops serving aboard. This is an easy way to share the Gospel with our men and women who are faithfully serving our country. The web site includes information and a short video about the program.
Sharing the Gospel with people is fun and rewarding! It can also be intimidating. I'd like to ask you to prayerfully consider coming out with us and being a "wing man." This would give you a first hand view of what we are doing as we witness to people without any of the pressure to strike up or even participate in the conversation with anyone. Please call or email me and let me know when you would like to go out with us. We'd also be happy to set up a time to role play some witnessing encounters so that you can become more comfortable sharing your faith with others!
 
God Bless,
 

Carl Kalbfleisch
Bezeugen Ministries
Fireproof your Valentines Day
This Saturday!!!

This Valentines Day we have scheduled a showing of the movie Fireproof at Steve and Nita Dossin's house at 2613 Winterlake in Carrollton, TX. The movie presents a marriage that is saved from the brink of divorce by the love and grace that is offered through Jesus Christ! You can watch a preview online.

Please arrive between 6:30 and 7PM.

Please bring a snack or drink to share.

RSVP is encouraged but not required.
Offer Expires: February 14, 2009
Witnessing Events
Monday's at lunch: witnessing at Valley View Mall or Galleria Mall.

Thursday at lunch: witnessing at Galleria Mall, Irving Mall or Grapevine Mills Mall.

February 14: We will be witnessing before the Smucker's Stars on Ice performance at the American Airlines Center in Dallas. We will leave Carrollton at noon and be back by 4:30.

February 22: Witnessing at the Shops at Legacy, Plano from 6-8PM.

We appreciate your prayers. Please come join us!!
See all witnessing events: www.bezeugen.org/events/
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Have you been thinking about starting a personal web site? Do you need a website for business? Do you know someone who does? If you sign up now for a new account, we will get $100 for each new site that we will then put directly into the ministry. That $100 could buy 5,000 Gospel tracts, or a case of Bibles, Mark Cahill books or Gospels of John!!!
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