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Volume 4, Number 50
  December 8, 2010
Greetings!

On Sunday, I completed my goal of training for and running a marathon. Along the way, I learned a lot about the spiritual journey as well as the actual physical training. The main theme of that training, evangelism and in life is Don't Quit! I captured some of these thoughts in a BLOG post. I hope you will take a few minutes to read it.

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On Thursday we held our First Thursday Day of Prayer for our nation, leaders and revival. You can read about the event in the BLOG.

On Saturday, I had the opportunity to witness at the Dallas Children's Parade. This event generally draws 400,000 people. Due to my marathon on Sunday, I did not stay at the event as long as I have in past years. But I did spend an hour handing out tracts, having some one on ones and doing a small amount of stop light preaching. In that time I handed out over 1,000 tracts! I know there were another half dozen evangelists out on the streets at the same time. Let's be in prayer about how we can reach thousands at this event next year!

Recommended Resources

One Million Tracts is offering a special Christmas sale on their bulk tracts. You can order any of their tracts or you can order the tracts from the Bezeugen Tract Club on this special pricing.

One Million Tracts Christmas
Bezeugen Tract Club 
Tract Club BannerMatched!!
To date over $2100 has been contributed towards the matching funds! This does not include the $1000 match. We appreciate your support of the ministry. There is still time before the end of the year to make year end tax deductible donations. You can find the information on donating online.

The tract club has passed 730 members! The next mailing will go in the mail TODAY!

Ellen Cole is the first member that I know of who has three generations of her family participating in the tract club! We met Ellen online just before the Psalm 119 conference in May. After the conference she was on my team in the West End for the 500. At that time she had never even handed out a tract! We taught her a few things and she has been on fire handing out tracts and witnessing ever since. A short time later she referred her son to the tract club. Yesterday I got a new membership in the tract club. The referral for how they heard about the tract club was "from my daughter Ellen Cole"! I know there are a couple other members that have referred their parents or their kids. But, I believe Ellen is the first to refer both. It is exciting to have three generations of her family involved.

Please refer your friends and family to the Bezeugen Tract Club. They can enroll online.

You've Got the Time
New Testament in 40 days
Challenge to read/listen to the entire New Testament in the 40 days ending the year 2010 started on November 22. if you missed the start, why not just jump in where we are! It's been a blessing to hear God's word each day.

The following is the schedule for this week:
  • Day 17 (December 8) John 15-19
  • Day 18 (December 9) John 20-Acts 4
  • Day 19 (December 10) Acts 5-9
  • Day 20 (December 11) Acts 10-15
  • Day 21 (December 12) Acts 16-20
  • Day 22 (December 13) Acts 21-26
  • Day 23 (December 14) Acts 27-Romans 4
For the complete reading plan see the BLOG.

Over 60 people have joined the Facebook event. You can join that event here.
Mark your calendar
Calendar Operation Care Dallas - December 18
A friend of Bezeugen Ministries, Ann Bullion has purchased a large supply of Are You a Good Person comic gospel tracts from Living Waters to be distributed at Operation Care Dallas. She is going to need help handing them out. Would you like to help? If so, please reply and I will put you in direct contact with Ann.

Operation Care Dallas holds an annual party, so to speak, each December for the homeless from all over the DFW area where they disseminate clothes, food, toiletries, new shoes, blankets, sleeping bags, etc to the homeless. Before the people can enter to receive these items they must go through the evangelism area. Last year about 10,000 - 15,000 homeless attended. Anyone is welcome to come evangelize as long as they sign up on the Operation Care website - www.operationcaredallas.org and go to the Volunteer tab at the left. There will be lines of homeless people outside beginning very early in the morning. There are a couple people from our witnessing team that will be participating in this event. If you are interested in joining them, sign up on the web site and then let me know and I'll connect you to the others that are participating.

Cotton Bowl / New Year Day Parade - January 1
The Cotton Bowl / New Year Day Parade returns to Dallas. Parade starts at 2:30PM. Details of the outreach to follow as the date gets closer.

Cotton Bowl - January 7
The Cotton Bowl returns to the Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington. This will be a great warm up to witnessing at the Super Bowl. Detail TBD. Kickoff is scheduled for 7PM. Therefore approximate ministry time would be 4:30-7:30PM.

Harlem Globetrotters - January 28
The Harlem Globetrotters return to Dallas January 28 and 29th. We will evangelize at the Saturday performance. A nice warm up to the Super Bowl Outreach the following weekend!

Super Bowl Outreach - February 3-6
The Super Bowl is coming to Dallas. The outreach is a four day event which features speakers, food, fellowship and witnessing around the metroplex. We will stay at Camp Copass on Lake Lewisville in Denton, TX. The cost is $249. You can register online at www.superbowloutreach.org. The event is February 3-6, 2011.

Main Street Art Festival - April 14-17
The Main Street Art Festival in Fort Worth is a fun time of witnessing. Normally we will go out on Saturday afternoon of the festival to witness. Details to follow as the date approaches.

As You Go
Where's the Line to See Jesus?
I was referred to the song "Where's the line to see Jesus?" by some good friends. After listening to the song I realized that this would be a good line to use when witnessing at the mall. See the As You Go BLOG for how that went. Perhaps you can try it and then post how it goes as a comment.

Prayer Requests
We appreciate your prayers
  • Thanks for your prayers for my run in the marathon. I marked an item off my "bucket list".
  • Praise for some new tracts we developed last week and ordered for the February and March mailings as well as the Super Bowl Outreach.
     
  • Preparations for Super Bowl Outreach
  • Please pray for reconciliation for several of our tract club members who are having marriage struggles and are separated from their spouses.
  • For Prayer Stop Outreach at Denton Golden Triangle Mall every Friday and Saturday until Christmas
     
  • Praise that we found a translator for Urdu version of the God's Way / Man's Way tract. Now we need a typsetter so we can lay out and print the tracts.
     
  • Financial support for continued growth of the tract club.  You can donate online at http://www.bezeugen.org/Donate/Donate.html
     
Thank you for your support and partnership in the Gospel. Your prayers are appreciated.

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God Bless,
 

Carl Kalbfleisch
Bezeugen Ministries
Witnessing Events
and Calendar

We now have a separate mailing list for the complete list of witnessing events. If you are interested in receiving this email with the complete list of events so that you can participate in the events or provide prayer support, then please send me an email and I will add you to that distribution. A partial list of witnessing events is provided here.

The Bezeugen Calendar is now on Google. You can import it into your own calendar. Or visit the calendar on our web site. For information about the venues of these witnessing events please see the Fishing Holes section of the web site.

Wednesday, December 8- Witnessing in Carrollton or Denton.  Todd heads up this outreach each week. If you don't have his contact information then please reply to this email and I will put you in touch with him for details. Normally around 6-8PM.

Thursday, December 9 - Witnessing at the DART in the West End of Dallas from 11:30-1PM.

Friday and Saturday - Witnessing at Prayer Stop at Denton Golden Triangle Mall. Email me and I'll connect you with Darrel Rundus.

Saturday, December 11 - TBD

Monday, December 13 - Witnessing at West End DART from 11:30-1PM.

We appreciate your prayers. Please come join us!!

Memory Verse

Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

Hebrews 12:3