Mission Trip

MISSION TRIP-ATLANTA '96




Thank you very much for your prayers for my mission trip to Atlanta this summer. The Lord had abundantly blessed my mission trip. Here is the over-view of my trip:

There were nine people, including me, from Philadelphia going on this trip. We traveled to Atlanta by cars. God kept us safe on the roads even though we got some heavy rains on the way down and we arrived in Atlanta on time as scheduled. The team had forty people. For the first three days, we received training for evangelism, children ministry, mime, sketch-board, and magic tricks. After that, our team was divided into three groups for day-time ministries. The first group helped with the Day-Camp at the Community Bible Chapel, the church that we had partnership with for the time there. The second group, open-air evangelism group, went out to the streets and neighborhoods to evangelize. The third group worked with an urban ministry that Community Bible Chapel has. This ministry works through a home center. They sell things at affordable prices for the poor people in the community.

At night, we went out to the Olympic venues to give out tracts and witness to the people that we came in contact with for the first week. The Olympic fans did not seemed to care about the Gospel at all. One of our team member said: "Either they are all Christians or they are all going to hell." We then shifted our focus to the people who live in Atlanta, they seemed to need God more. For the second week, we went out as the whole team every night to housing projects in the neighborhoods and had evangelical programs there for everyone. Some night, we had about 270 people gathered for a particular program. About half of the people at the meeting accepted Christ as their Savior. Over the two weeks there, about 1160 people heard the Gospel and about 250 people accepted Christ. I believe that God is really pleased to see many people came to know him.

Once again, thank you for your prayers. May God bless you.