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STORY OF THE MONTH
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Pastor Jason Johnson
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This October, the Roundup Seventh-day Adventist Church did something that we haven’t done in almost 10 years. We held a full evangelistic series with 3 main speakers (Rudy Fallang, Roy Dickerson, and me). This was a journey that started several years ago when we discussed holding an evangelistic series but decided not to at that time. Over the last 3 years, however, we focused on making friendships as well as helping and connecting with our community in as many ways as we could.
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Last November (2024) one of our elders attended the Voice of Prophecy Summit Retreat and came back feeling impressed that our church should hold a series of meetings. After talking with the church board, we all felt that it was our duty as Christians to give people every opportunity to know Jesus and make a decision to follow Him.
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So, as a church, we started preparing for the meetings early this last January. This involved a lot of prayer; we continued praying for the series throughout the year leading up to October; we prayed during the meetings and even now as the meetings are over. We also hosted other events leading up to the series (e.g. MindFit, a summer VBS program, and even a Lego Day) in order to connect with people in our community.
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When the meetings began, we went into them with high hopes knowing that we had prayed and done all we could to promote and prepare for the meetings. I wish I could say everything went exactly the way we had hoped, but they
didn’t. We had 9 people pre-register for the meetings and out of the 9, none of them came. But God tells us in Proverbs 3:5-6 to trust in Him with all our hearts and not to rely on our own understanding, to acknowledge and trust Him; and He will direct our path.
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We don’t know why these people didn’t come, but God brought others. Some of those were from friendships we had made in the time leading up to the meetings. We had up to 9 non-members come to the meetings, with 3 to 4 attending on a regular basis. We even had 3 of these visitors keep their first Sabbath. We also had 20 of our church members attend throughout the meetings, and the series was influential in bringing back members that had drifted away. The devil tried very hard to discourage us, but seeing God work even in small ways kept our spirits up.
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I would love to say we had baptisms at the end of our meetings, but we didn’t. We are still working with those that have attended in a variety of ways and are meeting with them weekly. We have made friendships, which is crucial. We don’t know what the future has in store, but as the churched talked together after the meetings had ended, we realized that it’s not about getting people to join our church. Rather it is about giving them an opportunity to get to know Jesus and make a decision for Him. Yes, joining our church family would be nice; however, like the early Christian church, God is asking us to share Jesus with those around us and He will “add to the church. . .” (Acts 2:47).
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We were unsure of doing these meetings ourselves, but now that we have, we feel like we could do it again. “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13). We know that we have and are working to give every opportunity for others to know Jesus, to share in His ministry, and for that we are grateful!