“We stepped through the doorway into a world
so completely different from our own that
it was almost incomprehensible.”
Ministering love and hope in the city of Kirov, Russia, Rick Gage and 20 GO TELL team volunteers were recently used of God to lead 460 precious Russian people to Christ while ministering aid to thousands.
Rick and the team reached out to the Russian people through meetings they conducted in churches, in a coliseum, and at the University of Kirov. They conducted evangelistic rallies; visited orphanages where they gave away shoes, meat, and dairy products to 1,500 orphans; distributed 1,800 pounds of aid including medical supplies; and gave away 2000 Bibles and Christian books in the Russian language.
Of utmost importance to Rick Gage was providing assistance to their host church to begin a half-way house for orphans who are put out on the streets when they turn fifteen years old. About 80 percent of them now end up committing suicide or living in prostitution or drugs.
For the last six years, Gage’s overseas teams have blanketed the city of Bryansk, Russia, with the gospel and aid. “We saw literally thousands of Russians come to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior there,” says Rick Gage. “Others are following up on our work and have taken up the mantle there. God made it clear we were to move to another unreached area.”
Kirov is a city of 600,000 people with only four small protestant churches. It is an area desperate for the gospel message and ripe for harvest. Located 700 miles northeast of Moscow near Siberia, it is a city which is bitterly cold and has much snow.
The team’s efforts were not without sacrifice. “You truly had to be sold out to the Lord to go on this trip,” commented team leader, Bob Thompson, who has been leading the Gage overseas ministry teams for ten years now. “We had a twelve-hour plane ride, followed by a fourteen-hour train trip, and then a four-hour bus ride each time we visited one of seven orphanages where we were privileged to minister.”
The team was made up of individuals from six different states and included eight teenagers. They unanimously agreed that the hardships they suffered were totally insignificant compared to the blessings they received. While ministering love and aid to thousands, the group came away feeling they had received far more than they had given.
Kenny Stokes reminisced, “Everyone should experience life outside the United States. Our children are so sheltered and oblivious to the poverty in the world. And it isn’t just about poverty in Russia. They don’t see hope for tomorrow. No matter what happens in America, we still believe tomorrow will be better. The people of Russia don’t have that hope. But Jesus brought many in Kirov hope as we helped heal their physical and spiritual suffering. And a tremendous blessing was the heart change in our own team members as they came in contact with the Russian people and the tears began to flow.”
Amber Prince stated, “This trip was the best thing that has ever happened to me. The impact on my life is indescribable in words. There was some music playing at one of the orphanages, and I started dancing with a little girl. I don’t think she’d ever had that much attention in her life. Her face changed as it lit up, and when she hugged me she wouldn’t let me go. Americans take everything for granted, especially the love they get from family and friends.”
The youngest member of the team, fifteen-year-old Kirstin Anthony, was challenged to overseas missions involvement at a GO TELL Summer Youth Camp where she committed her life to full-time Christian service. “God spoke to me at GO TELL Camp,” says Kirstin, “I really wanted to share Jesus in Russia. When I got home from camp, I talked to my family about going to Russia. I was so excited when they said I could go!
“God really worked in my life in Russia. It hurt my heart to leave the children in the orphanages, but I know God is keeping an eye on them. Giving each of them a sticker, some candy, a balloon, a hug and a smile, and telling them Jesus loves them meant all the world to them. Twenty Americans led 460 Russian people to Christ—that’s 23 each! I wonder what the world would be like if everyone cared for others that much.”
The team took to heart the biblical principle that to whom much is given, much shall be required. Three church members from Oak Grove Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia, invested much. “God worked miracles on and before this trip,” said Mary Martin. “We were able to raise $3,000 and our church, Oak Grove Baptist, gave us $10,000 to give to the orphanages. Some of the orphanages we visited were a six-hour bus ride away. The conditions there were so bad. I couldn’t imagine using one of their bathrooms. Their beds were made of plywood, with the mattress being a folded blanket. Although they were as hard as a rock, the children were thankful for them.
“The Russian people are stoic, with no smiles, as if they have no hope. But we were able to witness for Jesus and offer them hope. At the orphanages we sang, gave testimonies, and shared the gospel bracelet. We gave each child a New Testament, a book of Christian athletes in Russia, a toy, a balloon, and lots of stickers. They were so excited and crowded around us for our autographs.
“We visited one of the four churches in Kirov that was started by a pastor who sold his apartment to start the church. Life for those of us who went on this mission can never be the same. God has placed a burden on our hearts for the orphans that will not go away.”
Rebecca Dempsey ministered in Russia with Rick’s 2001 GO TELL Team. Since that time she had been very ill, and although she wanted to return to Russia, she was afraid of her failing health. This year Rebecca stepped out in faith and made the physically-challenging trip. Upon her return, her doctors were so amazed at her improvement that they told her if a mission trip could improve her health so much, they wanted her to go keep on going.
Rebecca says, “The hours are long, but the rewards of going on a mission trip are unbelievable. To me, the moment I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Savior, I committed to the Great Commission. A mission trip is a chance of a lifetime to really see miracles in action. My heart will forever be with the Russian people.”
“The Spirit of God is moving in Russia, a land greatly in need of hope!” says Rick. “It has been amazing to see Russian men, women, and children giving their lives to the Lord. Those who go on a trip with us are forever changed as they share their faith and experience the power of God in a foreign land.”
Rick Gage has witnessed more than 250,000 decisions for Christ through his many evangelistic outreaches in America and abroad. Rick Gage GO TELL Ministries include crusades, summer youth camps, schools assemblies, church revivals, overseas mission trips, and the GO TELL Academy.
“Everywhere I go people are personally embracing the Gospel message,” says Rick. “It is hope for the individual, for society, and for the world. Saturating our communities across America and the world with the gospel must be done at all costs. It takes, time, money, and involvement to reach lost people. But it will be eternally worth it one day.”
You, too, can experience a life-changing crusade to Russia with Rick Gage. For more information about Rick Gage GO TELL Ministries, please call 1-866-I-GO-TELL; email at info@gotellministries.com or visit his website at www.gotellministries.com.
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Thursday, September 30, 2004
Rick Gage Crusade Draws Thousands
Rick Gage Crusade Draws Thousands
Five-night event makes history in Donley County
The Clarendon Enterprise, 9-30-04
Evangelist Rick Gage has been filling football stadiums for more than a decade in small towns all across America. Many were skeptical that he could do it in the small county of Donley in the Texas Panhandle which claims a population of only 3,200.
Size doesn’t matter to Gage whose recent crusade in Clarendon was hailed by local pastors, business leaders, and church members as sparking a religious revival that has shaken Donley County to its core. When the dust had settled at the conclusion of the GO TELL GreenBelt Crusade, over 600 spiritual decisions had been recorded, including 349 first-time professions of salvation in Jesus Christ. Crusade counselors say another 200 decisions went unrecorded due to overwhelming responses.
The five-night event began with a Saturday night pre-crusade student rally, followed by four nights of crusade services where thousands flocked to Bronco Football Stadium at Clarendon High School. At the end of Gage’s preaching each evening, scores of people with tears streaming down their faces flowed out of the bleachers. Trained counselors met them all across the football field to pray and help them make eternal decisions.
Crusade Chairman Eddie Helms, who worked on crusade planning and preparation for over a year and enlisted more than 200 committee workers, said, “The crusade was the most thrilling thing we’ve ever experienced in Donley County. Our churches came together across denominational lines in a spirit of unity and cooperation to love and reach people, and we will continue what the crusade started.”
For almost 18 years, Pastor Truman Ledbetter who pastors First Baptist Clarendon has prayed for a sweeping revival. “God answered our prayers,” he says. “Nothing like this has ever happened in our community. Words are so inadequate to describe the mighty outpouring of God’s Spirit on so many. We are rejoicing in what God has done and in this great harvest that has eternal consequences. Our community will not just be changed for weeks or months, but for years to come.”
“God has burdened my heart to take the gospel to as many towns as possible in my lifetime,” Gage says. “As a native Texan, however, Texas is especially dear to me. I consider it an honor to preach in my home state, and I give God the glory for every life that has been touched and transformed by His power. The churches of Clarendon came together with vision and passion to meet a common goal. The dedication and hard work of the countless volunteers is exemplary.”
While maintaining his U. S. and overseas crusade schedule, Gage also embraces a GO TELL TEXAS Campaign which includes conducting 12 crusades in the Panhandle in the next four years, ending with a climatic crusade in Amarillo. The Clarendon Crusade followed those already conducted in Wheeler and Borger, Texas. Based on the results of his first three crusades in the Panhandle, if Gage’s vision comes to fruition, more than 25,000 commitments to Christ will be made in that area in the next four years.
Along with his GO TELL Summer Youth Camps in Georgia, Virginia, and Florida, in the summer of 2005, Gage and his youth camp team will again return to West Texas A& M University in Canyon. A crusade in Dalhart, Texas, will follow in September.
Today, however, citizens of Clarendon can’t stop talking about what just occurred in their town. “I was blown away seeing the hearts of so very many people touched and changed by the power of God,” say Pastor Darrell Burton of Martin Baptist Church. “I will never forget this crusade as long as I live. I can’t begin to tell what it did for me personally, as a pastor, as a believer, and as a member of this community. I will especially cherish one moment forever, in fact, for all eternity. It was the moment my nine-year-old daughter raised her hand to be saved.”
During the days of the crusade, Gage and his crusade team visited local schools, conducting Gage’s ON TRACK School Assembly Program dealing with life’s choices and issues such as drugs, alcohol abuse, and teen suicide.
Kelly Hill, Deputy Sheriff of Clarendon, works with the youth of his church. “Young people have a special place in my heart. I want to do any and everything I can to help them,” he says. “This crusade did more for them than all our churches could do in five years. I had the opportunity to attend some of the school assemblies. Let me tell you--no words could describe the fire these kids have after getting saved. I didn’t want the crusade to end, and we’ll make sure the fire never dies.”
Jay Lowder, staff evangelist with the crusade team, spoke to 40 of the basketball players from Clarendon College at the invitation of their coach. It was an exciting time as 31 of the 40 immediately leaped to their feet at the end of his talk, indicating their desire to give their lives to Jesus Christ.
Coke Hopping, Agricultural Science teacher and FCA leader at Memphis High School, coordinated an effort to bring nine van-loads of kids from his school to the crusade. “One-third of my high school was there,” he said. “Twenty-five of those precious kids made first-time decisions for Jesus Christ. Nine of our football players were saved! Twenty percent of our school were saved because Rick Gage cared enough to come to Clarendon and share the gospel.”
Mike Word, Elementary Principal in Clarendon, said of the crusade, “It was absolutely wonderful. I’ve never seen such a response from anything ever conducted in Clarendon or the stadium so packed out. God certainly worked. The school assemblies were wonderful. We even had the crusade musical team spend an entire morning at our school. The kids loved it and are still talking about it. Our town has been changed forever.”
Miracle stories abound in Donley County. Excited people are quick to share about what God did in the lives of their friends and loved ones. “I have a good friend for whom I had been praying for many, many years,” shares James Thomas. “Wednesday night of the crusade he surrendered his life to the Lord. I couldn’t believe it. He hugged me and cried; then looked me straight in the eyes and said, ‘God has changed my life. For so long I’ve done wrong, but now I have a chance to do things right.’ It is just a miracle!”
Many love to tell of the counselor who took off his counseling badge after the message Sunday evening, admitting that he had never really been saved. After praying the sinner’s prayer with another counselor, he put his badge back on and led a young person to Christ. One of the crusade staff baptized him that night.
Or, the 72-year-old man who, coming forward, asked the counselor, “Do you really want to deal with this hard-hearted old buzzard?” and then got gloriously saved. Several entire families were saved. One father and son accepted Christ the same night and the father testified, “I let my family down. Now it is time for me to take my role as spiritual leader of my home and raise my children right.”
The consensus among the community of faith is that the crusade was just the beginning of a great move of God in Donley County. Dr. John Howard of Clarendon General Medical Center says, “I was thrilled to have been a part of the crusade and am tremendously excited at the new growth, as well as the anticipated growth in our churches. We view the crusade as an ongoing process. Now that the crusade team is gone, it is not as if the event is over. It is as if something has just begun.”
Every church that worked to bring about the crusade is now diligently following up on those who made decisions during the crusade. Scores of people are canvassing the community every day, knocking on doors, and discipling those who made decisions. The community Saturday morning prayer meetings that went on for many months prior to the crusade continue, as well as the luncheons and regularly-scheduled community meetings. Churches are baptizing new converts and adding new converts’ classes.
Rick Gage and his crusade team have moved on to another town and another crusade, but his thoughts are not far from Texas. “I look forward to being back to my native Texas soon,” he says.
Rick Gage has witnessed more than 250,000 commitments to Christ through his many evangelistic outreaches in America and abroad. Rick Gage GO TELL Ministries include crusades, summer youth camps, school assemblies, one-day church events, and overseas mission trips.
“Everywhere I go, people are personally embracing the gospel message,” says Gage. “It is hope for the individual, for society, and for the world. Saturating our communities across America with the glorious gospel must be done at all costs. It takes time, money, and involvement to reach lost people. But it will be eternally worth it one day.”
For more information about Rick Gage GO TELL Ministries, please call 1-866-I-GO-TELL; email at info@gotellministries.com or visit his website at www.gotellministries.com.
Five-night event makes history in Donley County
The Clarendon Enterprise, 9-30-04
Evangelist Rick Gage has been filling football stadiums for more than a decade in small towns all across America. Many were skeptical that he could do it in the small county of Donley in the Texas Panhandle which claims a population of only 3,200.
Size doesn’t matter to Gage whose recent crusade in Clarendon was hailed by local pastors, business leaders, and church members as sparking a religious revival that has shaken Donley County to its core. When the dust had settled at the conclusion of the GO TELL GreenBelt Crusade, over 600 spiritual decisions had been recorded, including 349 first-time professions of salvation in Jesus Christ. Crusade counselors say another 200 decisions went unrecorded due to overwhelming responses.
The five-night event began with a Saturday night pre-crusade student rally, followed by four nights of crusade services where thousands flocked to Bronco Football Stadium at Clarendon High School. At the end of Gage’s preaching each evening, scores of people with tears streaming down their faces flowed out of the bleachers. Trained counselors met them all across the football field to pray and help them make eternal decisions.
Crusade Chairman Eddie Helms, who worked on crusade planning and preparation for over a year and enlisted more than 200 committee workers, said, “The crusade was the most thrilling thing we’ve ever experienced in Donley County. Our churches came together across denominational lines in a spirit of unity and cooperation to love and reach people, and we will continue what the crusade started.”
For almost 18 years, Pastor Truman Ledbetter who pastors First Baptist Clarendon has prayed for a sweeping revival. “God answered our prayers,” he says. “Nothing like this has ever happened in our community. Words are so inadequate to describe the mighty outpouring of God’s Spirit on so many. We are rejoicing in what God has done and in this great harvest that has eternal consequences. Our community will not just be changed for weeks or months, but for years to come.”
“God has burdened my heart to take the gospel to as many towns as possible in my lifetime,” Gage says. “As a native Texan, however, Texas is especially dear to me. I consider it an honor to preach in my home state, and I give God the glory for every life that has been touched and transformed by His power. The churches of Clarendon came together with vision and passion to meet a common goal. The dedication and hard work of the countless volunteers is exemplary.”
While maintaining his U. S. and overseas crusade schedule, Gage also embraces a GO TELL TEXAS Campaign which includes conducting 12 crusades in the Panhandle in the next four years, ending with a climatic crusade in Amarillo. The Clarendon Crusade followed those already conducted in Wheeler and Borger, Texas. Based on the results of his first three crusades in the Panhandle, if Gage’s vision comes to fruition, more than 25,000 commitments to Christ will be made in that area in the next four years.
Along with his GO TELL Summer Youth Camps in Georgia, Virginia, and Florida, in the summer of 2005, Gage and his youth camp team will again return to West Texas A& M University in Canyon. A crusade in Dalhart, Texas, will follow in September.
Today, however, citizens of Clarendon can’t stop talking about what just occurred in their town. “I was blown away seeing the hearts of so very many people touched and changed by the power of God,” say Pastor Darrell Burton of Martin Baptist Church. “I will never forget this crusade as long as I live. I can’t begin to tell what it did for me personally, as a pastor, as a believer, and as a member of this community. I will especially cherish one moment forever, in fact, for all eternity. It was the moment my nine-year-old daughter raised her hand to be saved.”
During the days of the crusade, Gage and his crusade team visited local schools, conducting Gage’s ON TRACK School Assembly Program dealing with life’s choices and issues such as drugs, alcohol abuse, and teen suicide.
Kelly Hill, Deputy Sheriff of Clarendon, works with the youth of his church. “Young people have a special place in my heart. I want to do any and everything I can to help them,” he says. “This crusade did more for them than all our churches could do in five years. I had the opportunity to attend some of the school assemblies. Let me tell you--no words could describe the fire these kids have after getting saved. I didn’t want the crusade to end, and we’ll make sure the fire never dies.”
Jay Lowder, staff evangelist with the crusade team, spoke to 40 of the basketball players from Clarendon College at the invitation of their coach. It was an exciting time as 31 of the 40 immediately leaped to their feet at the end of his talk, indicating their desire to give their lives to Jesus Christ.
Coke Hopping, Agricultural Science teacher and FCA leader at Memphis High School, coordinated an effort to bring nine van-loads of kids from his school to the crusade. “One-third of my high school was there,” he said. “Twenty-five of those precious kids made first-time decisions for Jesus Christ. Nine of our football players were saved! Twenty percent of our school were saved because Rick Gage cared enough to come to Clarendon and share the gospel.”
Mike Word, Elementary Principal in Clarendon, said of the crusade, “It was absolutely wonderful. I’ve never seen such a response from anything ever conducted in Clarendon or the stadium so packed out. God certainly worked. The school assemblies were wonderful. We even had the crusade musical team spend an entire morning at our school. The kids loved it and are still talking about it. Our town has been changed forever.”
Miracle stories abound in Donley County. Excited people are quick to share about what God did in the lives of their friends and loved ones. “I have a good friend for whom I had been praying for many, many years,” shares James Thomas. “Wednesday night of the crusade he surrendered his life to the Lord. I couldn’t believe it. He hugged me and cried; then looked me straight in the eyes and said, ‘God has changed my life. For so long I’ve done wrong, but now I have a chance to do things right.’ It is just a miracle!”
Many love to tell of the counselor who took off his counseling badge after the message Sunday evening, admitting that he had never really been saved. After praying the sinner’s prayer with another counselor, he put his badge back on and led a young person to Christ. One of the crusade staff baptized him that night.
Or, the 72-year-old man who, coming forward, asked the counselor, “Do you really want to deal with this hard-hearted old buzzard?” and then got gloriously saved. Several entire families were saved. One father and son accepted Christ the same night and the father testified, “I let my family down. Now it is time for me to take my role as spiritual leader of my home and raise my children right.”
The consensus among the community of faith is that the crusade was just the beginning of a great move of God in Donley County. Dr. John Howard of Clarendon General Medical Center says, “I was thrilled to have been a part of the crusade and am tremendously excited at the new growth, as well as the anticipated growth in our churches. We view the crusade as an ongoing process. Now that the crusade team is gone, it is not as if the event is over. It is as if something has just begun.”
Every church that worked to bring about the crusade is now diligently following up on those who made decisions during the crusade. Scores of people are canvassing the community every day, knocking on doors, and discipling those who made decisions. The community Saturday morning prayer meetings that went on for many months prior to the crusade continue, as well as the luncheons and regularly-scheduled community meetings. Churches are baptizing new converts and adding new converts’ classes.
Rick Gage and his crusade team have moved on to another town and another crusade, but his thoughts are not far from Texas. “I look forward to being back to my native Texas soon,” he says.
Rick Gage has witnessed more than 250,000 commitments to Christ through his many evangelistic outreaches in America and abroad. Rick Gage GO TELL Ministries include crusades, summer youth camps, school assemblies, one-day church events, and overseas mission trips.
“Everywhere I go, people are personally embracing the gospel message,” says Gage. “It is hope for the individual, for society, and for the world. Saturating our communities across America with the glorious gospel must be done at all costs. It takes time, money, and involvement to reach lost people. But it will be eternally worth it one day.”
For more information about Rick Gage GO TELL Ministries, please call 1-866-I-GO-TELL; email at info@gotellministries.com or visit his website at www.gotellministries.com.
Monday, August 23, 2004
James Merritt
Dear Pastor and Youth Leader,
It brings me great joy to recommend the GO TELL Camp ministry of my dear friend, evangelist Rick Gage.
I have had the privilege of preaching and serving as Camp Pastor at several of the GO TELL Camps, and I can say, without hesitation, they are some of the most exciting and dynamic youth camps in America.
Each year thousands of students from churches nationwide are making life-changing decisions for Christ, and many are answering God’s call to the ministry.
I strongly encourage you to make plans for your youth to attend a GO TELL Camp. It will be a week that will change your young people’s lives forever. Don’t miss this awesome opportunity.
Sincerely in Christ,
James Merritt
Cross Pointe, The Church at Gwinnett Center
www.mycrosspointe.com
It brings me great joy to recommend the GO TELL Camp ministry of my dear friend, evangelist Rick Gage.
I have had the privilege of preaching and serving as Camp Pastor at several of the GO TELL Camps, and I can say, without hesitation, they are some of the most exciting and dynamic youth camps in America.
Each year thousands of students from churches nationwide are making life-changing decisions for Christ, and many are answering God’s call to the ministry.
I strongly encourage you to make plans for your youth to attend a GO TELL Camp. It will be a week that will change your young people’s lives forever. Don’t miss this awesome opportunity.
Sincerely in Christ,
James Merritt
Cross Pointe, The Church at Gwinnett Center
www.mycrosspointe.com
Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Go Tell Campers Hear Pilgrim Story
The Toccoa Record
Bo Pilgrim, chairman and CEO of Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation, a fortune 500 company based in Pittsburgh, Texas, takes advantage of every opportunity to share his passion for God with America’s youth.
More than 40 churches nationwide brought their teens and leaders to the Rick Gage Go Tell camp at the Georgia Baptist Conference Center.
Over 1,000 young people and counselors packed into the center’s auditorium for the evening service where Pilgrim would share his heart from the platform.
Wearing a black pilgrim’s hat and carrying a Bible and a stuffed chicken, the Texas businessman shared his story.
Pilgrim was born in the small community of Pine, Texas, population 100. Pilgrim’s father was the postmaster there, and he had a general merchandise store.
He died in 1939, leaving behind seven children. When Pilgrim was 10 years old, his mother remarried. Soon after this, Pilgrim left home to live with his grandmother.
Growing up around agriculture, Pilgrim started his chicken business after he finished high school in 1945. Over the next 50 years, what began as a small service to farmers grew into a business, grossing over $20 million in sales per day.
To what does Pilgrim attribute his success?
After his father died, Pilgrim said he had a very heavy heart and wanted to be with his earthly father as well as his heavenly father. During a church revival, Pilgrim said he committed his life to Christ. Pilgrim attributes his success to that commitment.
“I think my success comes from when I went into this business in Pittsburgh, “he said. “I was committed to the Lord and promised him if I ever amounted to anything that I’d always give him the credit for it.”
Pilgrim said he has built his company of more than 40,000 employees on the moral pillars of honesty, hard work, loyalty, selflessness and integrity.
He said he believes God wanted him to exemplify being a Christian businessman, and he is forever conscious of that calling. His father died at the age of 43 and his brothers died at the age of 42, 47 and 58, all due to hardening of the arteries.
Pilgrim had open-heart surgery in 1975 and a heart attack in 1982, and he said at the Go Tell service, “I am not supposed to be here, but the reason I am is that God has a purpose for me as a Christian businessman.”
Pilgrim said he takes seriously his responsibility to his customers, his employees and, most importantly, to God.
Pilgrim said he understands that as a businessman one has to be able to handle pressure daily. According to Pilgrim, the key to handling pressure is praying and reading the Bible daily, doing the best he can and leaving the rest to God.
After addressing the Go Tell campers with this story, Pilgrim presented a gospel tract to each of them.
Each tract held a $20 bill, and the campers gave Pilgrim a standing ovation when he left, said camp director Rick Gage.
“Bo Pilgrim is a man who is passionate about fulfilling the Great commission and advancing the kingdom of God,“ he said.
Bo Pilgrim, chairman and CEO of Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation, a fortune 500 company based in Pittsburgh, Texas, takes advantage of every opportunity to share his passion for God with America’s youth.
More than 40 churches nationwide brought their teens and leaders to the Rick Gage Go Tell camp at the Georgia Baptist Conference Center.
Over 1,000 young people and counselors packed into the center’s auditorium for the evening service where Pilgrim would share his heart from the platform.
Wearing a black pilgrim’s hat and carrying a Bible and a stuffed chicken, the Texas businessman shared his story.
Pilgrim was born in the small community of Pine, Texas, population 100. Pilgrim’s father was the postmaster there, and he had a general merchandise store.
He died in 1939, leaving behind seven children. When Pilgrim was 10 years old, his mother remarried. Soon after this, Pilgrim left home to live with his grandmother.
Growing up around agriculture, Pilgrim started his chicken business after he finished high school in 1945. Over the next 50 years, what began as a small service to farmers grew into a business, grossing over $20 million in sales per day.
To what does Pilgrim attribute his success?
After his father died, Pilgrim said he had a very heavy heart and wanted to be with his earthly father as well as his heavenly father. During a church revival, Pilgrim said he committed his life to Christ. Pilgrim attributes his success to that commitment.
“I think my success comes from when I went into this business in Pittsburgh, “he said. “I was committed to the Lord and promised him if I ever amounted to anything that I’d always give him the credit for it.”
Pilgrim said he has built his company of more than 40,000 employees on the moral pillars of honesty, hard work, loyalty, selflessness and integrity.
He said he believes God wanted him to exemplify being a Christian businessman, and he is forever conscious of that calling. His father died at the age of 43 and his brothers died at the age of 42, 47 and 58, all due to hardening of the arteries.
Pilgrim had open-heart surgery in 1975 and a heart attack in 1982, and he said at the Go Tell service, “I am not supposed to be here, but the reason I am is that God has a purpose for me as a Christian businessman.”
Pilgrim said he takes seriously his responsibility to his customers, his employees and, most importantly, to God.
Pilgrim said he understands that as a businessman one has to be able to handle pressure daily. According to Pilgrim, the key to handling pressure is praying and reading the Bible daily, doing the best he can and leaving the rest to God.
After addressing the Go Tell campers with this story, Pilgrim presented a gospel tract to each of them.
Each tract held a $20 bill, and the campers gave Pilgrim a standing ovation when he left, said camp director Rick Gage.
“Bo Pilgrim is a man who is passionate about fulfilling the Great commission and advancing the kingdom of God,“ he said.
Friday, April 23, 2004
Small Texas town sees hundreds of decisions during crusade
By Staff
Baptist Press
SAN SABA, Texas (BP)--The little town of San Saba, Texas, which boasts a population of 2,637, was shaken to its core when Rick Gage's Heart of Texas Crusade drew thousands of people to an outdoor field at the local high school March 28-31.
By the conclusion of the crusade in this little town in the heart of Texas, 540 spiritual decisions had been recorded, including 284 first-time professions of faith.
"We've never seen anything like it," said Tom Brand, pastor of The Father's House Church. "I have been pastoring here in San Saba for almost 12 years, and this is the most exciting, unbelievable move of God that has ever hit this county. As churches worked together, we felt the greatest sense of unity and a spirit of cooperation that has ever occurred in this area.
"We're still reeling from the mighty moving of God's Spirit among so many. The town is buzzing. We can't stop talking about what happened and what God is continuing to do. The baptismal waters stirred in my church on Easter Sunday!"
Sam Crosby, pastor of First Baptist Church of San Saba, is leading follow-up teams who are visiting in the homes of those who made decisions for Christ. He said he was astonished at the great number of people who came to the football stadium who would never come to a church.
Shay Hardy, a local radio personality, and his wife, Betty Sue, made a profession of faith at the crusade.
"I am a different man," Shay Hardy said. "This week Jesus has changed my life."
Crosby baptized Shay and Betty Sue on Easter Sunday along with 15 others who made public decisions at the crusade.
"More than 40 people walked the aisle of my church the Sunday after the crusade to make public the decisions they had made during the crusade," Crosby said. "We have already started a class for new Christians. Four adults were saved in homes immediately after the Crusade as the Spirit of God continues to move mightily.
"As we prepared for the crusade, we prayed for a mighty moving of God's Spirit. We prayed like Isaiah, that God would rend the heavens and come down. And God far exceeded our expectations. Few know that Rogan Field was once an old graveyard. God breathed new life there during the Heart of Texas Crusade, and great numbers will be in heaven because of it."
Local police officers who worked security for the crusade reported that some people in surrounding neighborhoods who were within earshot of Rogan Field stopped their barbequing and listened. The officers used the opportunity to talk to these people about Christ.
A Saturday night student rally kicked off the crusade, reaping 74 decisions, with 32 salvation experiences from students and adults. The following night Bo Pilgrim, chairman and CEO of Pilgrim's Pride Corporation, the second largest poultry corporation in America, gave his personal testimony as part of the beginning of the open-air crusade.
Rick Stanley, an evangelist and stepbrother of Elvis Presley, regularly travels with Rick Gage, giving his testimony at Gage's crusades. As he spoke on Monday evening, one lady, Christy Montoya, listened intently.
"At first, I did everything I could to keep from listening to Rick Stanley's testimony," Montoya said. "I desperately told God I would wait until the next night to get saved, but when I closed my eyes, I had a vision of a tomorrow that never comes. As tears welled up in my eyes, I knew that if I did not ask Jesus to save me right then, I would die and go to hell."
Montoya and her daughter, Kaysha, both made professions of faith and were baptized together on Easter Sunday.
During the day, the crusade team members visited seven local schools, speaking to 2,000 students. Gage's "On Track" school assembly program deals with life's choices and addresses issues such as drugs, alcohol abuse, teen suicide and premarital sex.
Team members also visited the Texas Youth Commission, a juvenile correction facility in San Saba. More than 40 young men committed their lives to Jesus Christ after Gage's team conducted its service.
Darwin Lewis, chairman of the crusade, said much work went into preparing for the event. Some 25 pastors helped bring the crusade to the town.
"For seven months we prayed and planned, but God far exceeded our expectations," Lewis said. "His Spirit moved in a way that will make a lasting impact on our community for Christ. I wish every small town like ours could experience a Rick Gage Crusade."
Baptist Press
SAN SABA, Texas (BP)--The little town of San Saba, Texas, which boasts a population of 2,637, was shaken to its core when Rick Gage's Heart of Texas Crusade drew thousands of people to an outdoor field at the local high school March 28-31.
By the conclusion of the crusade in this little town in the heart of Texas, 540 spiritual decisions had been recorded, including 284 first-time professions of faith.
"We've never seen anything like it," said Tom Brand, pastor of The Father's House Church. "I have been pastoring here in San Saba for almost 12 years, and this is the most exciting, unbelievable move of God that has ever hit this county. As churches worked together, we felt the greatest sense of unity and a spirit of cooperation that has ever occurred in this area.
"We're still reeling from the mighty moving of God's Spirit among so many. The town is buzzing. We can't stop talking about what happened and what God is continuing to do. The baptismal waters stirred in my church on Easter Sunday!"
Sam Crosby, pastor of First Baptist Church of San Saba, is leading follow-up teams who are visiting in the homes of those who made decisions for Christ. He said he was astonished at the great number of people who came to the football stadium who would never come to a church.
Shay Hardy, a local radio personality, and his wife, Betty Sue, made a profession of faith at the crusade.
"I am a different man," Shay Hardy said. "This week Jesus has changed my life."
Crosby baptized Shay and Betty Sue on Easter Sunday along with 15 others who made public decisions at the crusade.
"More than 40 people walked the aisle of my church the Sunday after the crusade to make public the decisions they had made during the crusade," Crosby said. "We have already started a class for new Christians. Four adults were saved in homes immediately after the Crusade as the Spirit of God continues to move mightily.
"As we prepared for the crusade, we prayed for a mighty moving of God's Spirit. We prayed like Isaiah, that God would rend the heavens and come down. And God far exceeded our expectations. Few know that Rogan Field was once an old graveyard. God breathed new life there during the Heart of Texas Crusade, and great numbers will be in heaven because of it."
Local police officers who worked security for the crusade reported that some people in surrounding neighborhoods who were within earshot of Rogan Field stopped their barbequing and listened. The officers used the opportunity to talk to these people about Christ.
A Saturday night student rally kicked off the crusade, reaping 74 decisions, with 32 salvation experiences from students and adults. The following night Bo Pilgrim, chairman and CEO of Pilgrim's Pride Corporation, the second largest poultry corporation in America, gave his personal testimony as part of the beginning of the open-air crusade.
Rick Stanley, an evangelist and stepbrother of Elvis Presley, regularly travels with Rick Gage, giving his testimony at Gage's crusades. As he spoke on Monday evening, one lady, Christy Montoya, listened intently.
"At first, I did everything I could to keep from listening to Rick Stanley's testimony," Montoya said. "I desperately told God I would wait until the next night to get saved, but when I closed my eyes, I had a vision of a tomorrow that never comes. As tears welled up in my eyes, I knew that if I did not ask Jesus to save me right then, I would die and go to hell."
Montoya and her daughter, Kaysha, both made professions of faith and were baptized together on Easter Sunday.
During the day, the crusade team members visited seven local schools, speaking to 2,000 students. Gage's "On Track" school assembly program deals with life's choices and addresses issues such as drugs, alcohol abuse, teen suicide and premarital sex.
Team members also visited the Texas Youth Commission, a juvenile correction facility in San Saba. More than 40 young men committed their lives to Jesus Christ after Gage's team conducted its service.
Darwin Lewis, chairman of the crusade, said much work went into preparing for the event. Some 25 pastors helped bring the crusade to the town.
"For seven months we prayed and planned, but God far exceeded our expectations," Lewis said. "His Spirit moved in a way that will make a lasting impact on our community for Christ. I wish every small town like ours could experience a Rick Gage Crusade."
Small Texas town sees hundreds of decisions during crusade
Apr 23, 2004
By Staff
Baptist Press
Sam Crosby, pastor of First Baptist Church of San Saba, Texas, speaks to Hailey Osbourne during a moment in the Rick Gage Heart of Texas Crusade.
SAN SABA, Texas (BP)--The little town of San Saba, Texas, which boasts a population of 2,637, was shaken to its core when Rick Gage's Heart of Texas Crusade drew thousands of people to an outdoor field at the local high school March 28-31.
By the conclusion of the crusade in this little town in the heart of Texas, 540 spiritual decisions had been recorded, including 284 first-time professions of faith.
"We've never seen anything like it," said Tom Brand, pastor of The Father's House Church. "I have been pastoring here in San Saba for almost 12 years, and this is the most exciting, unbelievable move of God that has ever hit this county. As churches worked together, we felt the greatest sense of unity and a spirit of cooperation that has ever occurred in this area.
"We're still reeling from the mighty moving of God's Spirit among so many. The town is buzzing. We can't stop talking about what happened and what God is continuing to do. The baptismal waters stirred in my church on Easter Sunday!"
Sam Crosby, pastor of First Baptist Church of San Saba, is leading follow-up teams who are visiting in the homes of those who made decisions for Christ. He said he was astonished at the great number of people who came to the football stadium who would never come to a church.
Shay Hardy, a local radio personality, and his wife, Betty Sue, made a profession of faith at the crusade.
"I am a different man," Shay Hardy said. "This week Jesus has changed my life."
Crosby baptized Shay and Betty Sue on Easter Sunday along with 15 others who made public decisions at the crusade.
"More than 40 people walked the aisle of my church the Sunday after the crusade to make public the decisions they had made during the crusade," Crosby said. "We have already started a class for new Christians. Four adults were saved in homes immediately after the Crusade as the Spirit of God continues to move mightily.
"As we prepared for the crusade, we prayed for a mighty moving of God's Spirit. We prayed like Isaiah, that God would rend the heavens and come down. And God far exceeded our expectations. Few know that Rogan Field was once an old graveyard. God breathed new life there during the Heart of Texas Crusade, and great numbers will be in heaven because of it."
Local police officers who worked security for the crusade reported that some people in surrounding neighborhoods who were within earshot of Rogan Field stopped their barbequing and listened. The officers used the opportunity to talk to these people about Christ.
A Saturday night student rally kicked off the crusade, reaping 74 decisions, with 32 salvation experiences from students and adults. The following night Bo Pilgrim, chairman and CEO of Pilgrim's Pride Corporation, the second largest poultry corporation in America, gave his personal testimony as part of the beginning of the open-air crusade.
Rick Stanley, an evangelist and stepbrother of Elvis Presley, regularly travels with Rick Gage, giving his testimony at Gage's crusades. As he spoke on Monday evening, one lady, Christy Montoya, listened intently.
"At first, I did everything I could to keep from listening to Rick Stanley's testimony," Montoya said. "I desperately told God I would wait until the next night to get saved, but when I closed my eyes, I had a vision of a tomorrow that never comes. As tears welled up in my eyes, I knew that if I did not ask Jesus to save me right then, I would die and go to hell."
Montoya and her daughter, Kaysha, both made professions of faith and were baptized together on Easter Sunday.
During the day, the crusade team members visited seven local schools, speaking to 2,000 students. Gage's "On Track" school assembly program deals with life's choices and addresses issues such as drugs, alcohol abuse, teen suicide and premarital sex.
Team members also visited the Texas Youth Commission, a juvenile correction facility in San Saba. More than 40 young men committed their lives to Jesus Christ after Gage's team conducted its service.
Darwin Lewis, chairman of the crusade, said much work went into preparing for the event. Some 25 pastors helped bring the crusade to the town.
"For seven months we prayed and planned, but God far exceeded our expectations," Lewis said. "His Spirit moved in a way that will make a lasting impact on our community for Christ. I wish every small town like ours could experience a Rick Gage Crusade."
By Staff
Baptist Press
Sam Crosby, pastor of First Baptist Church of San Saba, Texas, speaks to Hailey Osbourne during a moment in the Rick Gage Heart of Texas Crusade.
SAN SABA, Texas (BP)--The little town of San Saba, Texas, which boasts a population of 2,637, was shaken to its core when Rick Gage's Heart of Texas Crusade drew thousands of people to an outdoor field at the local high school March 28-31.
By the conclusion of the crusade in this little town in the heart of Texas, 540 spiritual decisions had been recorded, including 284 first-time professions of faith.
"We've never seen anything like it," said Tom Brand, pastor of The Father's House Church. "I have been pastoring here in San Saba for almost 12 years, and this is the most exciting, unbelievable move of God that has ever hit this county. As churches worked together, we felt the greatest sense of unity and a spirit of cooperation that has ever occurred in this area.
"We're still reeling from the mighty moving of God's Spirit among so many. The town is buzzing. We can't stop talking about what happened and what God is continuing to do. The baptismal waters stirred in my church on Easter Sunday!"
Sam Crosby, pastor of First Baptist Church of San Saba, is leading follow-up teams who are visiting in the homes of those who made decisions for Christ. He said he was astonished at the great number of people who came to the football stadium who would never come to a church.
Shay Hardy, a local radio personality, and his wife, Betty Sue, made a profession of faith at the crusade.
"I am a different man," Shay Hardy said. "This week Jesus has changed my life."
Crosby baptized Shay and Betty Sue on Easter Sunday along with 15 others who made public decisions at the crusade.
"More than 40 people walked the aisle of my church the Sunday after the crusade to make public the decisions they had made during the crusade," Crosby said. "We have already started a class for new Christians. Four adults were saved in homes immediately after the Crusade as the Spirit of God continues to move mightily.
"As we prepared for the crusade, we prayed for a mighty moving of God's Spirit. We prayed like Isaiah, that God would rend the heavens and come down. And God far exceeded our expectations. Few know that Rogan Field was once an old graveyard. God breathed new life there during the Heart of Texas Crusade, and great numbers will be in heaven because of it."
Local police officers who worked security for the crusade reported that some people in surrounding neighborhoods who were within earshot of Rogan Field stopped their barbequing and listened. The officers used the opportunity to talk to these people about Christ.
A Saturday night student rally kicked off the crusade, reaping 74 decisions, with 32 salvation experiences from students and adults. The following night Bo Pilgrim, chairman and CEO of Pilgrim's Pride Corporation, the second largest poultry corporation in America, gave his personal testimony as part of the beginning of the open-air crusade.
Rick Stanley, an evangelist and stepbrother of Elvis Presley, regularly travels with Rick Gage, giving his testimony at Gage's crusades. As he spoke on Monday evening, one lady, Christy Montoya, listened intently.
"At first, I did everything I could to keep from listening to Rick Stanley's testimony," Montoya said. "I desperately told God I would wait until the next night to get saved, but when I closed my eyes, I had a vision of a tomorrow that never comes. As tears welled up in my eyes, I knew that if I did not ask Jesus to save me right then, I would die and go to hell."
Montoya and her daughter, Kaysha, both made professions of faith and were baptized together on Easter Sunday.
During the day, the crusade team members visited seven local schools, speaking to 2,000 students. Gage's "On Track" school assembly program deals with life's choices and addresses issues such as drugs, alcohol abuse, teen suicide and premarital sex.
Team members also visited the Texas Youth Commission, a juvenile correction facility in San Saba. More than 40 young men committed their lives to Jesus Christ after Gage's team conducted its service.
Darwin Lewis, chairman of the crusade, said much work went into preparing for the event. Some 25 pastors helped bring the crusade to the town.
"For seven months we prayed and planned, but God far exceeded our expectations," Lewis said. "His Spirit moved in a way that will make a lasting impact on our community for Christ. I wish every small town like ours could experience a Rick Gage Crusade."
Thursday, January 29, 2004
Rick Gage continues to stir America's towns for Christ
By Staff
Baptist Press
HARTSVILLE, S.C. (BP)--Billy Graham probably will never lead a crusade in such Texas towns as San Saba, Clarendon or Perryton, or in Lincolnton, Ga.
But evangelist Rick Gage will hold a four-day GO TELL Area-Wide Crusade in each locale this year.
Last fall, Gage led similar campaigns in Kelleytown Stadium in Hartsville, S.C., and at the Lanier National Speedway near Gainesville, Ga.
In the Hartsville outreach, 660 decisions for Christ were made, including 356 first-time professions of faith.
At the Georgia speedway, 550 decisions were recorded, including 329 first-time professions of faith.
Jack Westmoreland, co-chairman of the Hartsville campaign, noted "the powerful way God moved in this crusade with Rick Gage," calling it high among "the most worthwhile, overwhelming" experiences of his life.
"It is hard to put into words glorious enough to do it justice. The Spirit of God swept through night after night, saving and changing lives. It is beyond anything I could have imagined this side of heaven," Westmoreland said amid tears.
The crusade's closing night -- a youth night -- capped Gage's outreach to area young people through his "On Track" school assemblies, attended by more than 5,000 students who listened to his reflections on life's choices and such issues as drugs, alcohol abuse and teen suicide.
The youth night, complete with a pizza blast, drew more than 1,700 young people to the crusade. "Young people flooded the altars making decisions for Christ that last night," local counseling chairman Warren Arthur said. "We had 100 counselors standing by, but we needed 300. It was phenomenal how powerful and strong the Spirit of God was as the Lord worked in hearts. Many were saved who had no church affiliation at all."
"As I left the stadium that night," said Judy Lyles, the crusade's prayer chairperson, "I felt as if my heart would burst with thankfulness to God. My husband and three sons had been saved at the crusade. I was overwhelmed with an awesome sense that the work God began in this miraculous crusade will go on and on" -- something about which "we are praying seriously."
More than 100 Hartsville-area churches joined forces for the crusade featuring "the Billy Graham of small-town America," working through 13 committees in the various planning stages prior to the Gage's arrival
In Gainesville, Ga., local businessman and crusade chairman Henry Slack remarked, "I've never seen anything like it in my life. Night after night people flooded to the altar. God moved in power and changed lives by the hundreds.
"As I arrived at the crusade Wednesday evening [for the closing service] and turned the corner, I saw a sight that literally took my breath away. More than 4,000 young people and adults packed the grandstands. It was as if I could see God's hand in Holy Spirit power sweeping over the crowd. It was the largest gathering of young people for any event in the history of Hall County.
"After Rick Gage preached, young people began to flood the altar in waves," so much so that "we asked for anyone in the stands who knew how to lead a person to Christ to come help counsel," Slack said. "Only a sovereign God can produce results like that."
Video testimonies were featured from University of Georgia head football coach Mark Richt and Georgia Tech head coach Chan Gailey.
Robbie Foster, pastor of Hopewell Baptist Church, told of one high school football player who made a profession of faith on the crusade's opening night. "He then began to bring his friends, along with many others, who were saved at the crusade," Foster recounted.
"Scores of students from Johnson High School who made decisions at the crusade are hungry for more of the Lord," said Rick Stowe, associate pastor of Chestnut Mountain Church who served as the crusade's counseling and follow-up chairman. Stowe's own 18-year-old son also made a profession of faith in Christ.
Wayne Mock, police operations commander for the Hall County sheriff's department who was in charge of traffic and security for the crusade, told of a 12-year-old who came up to him after a pre-crusade rally and asked if Mock was a Christian. "'Yes, I am, son!'" the officer said, "to which he replied with a radiant face, 'I've only been a Christian for five minutes.' My eyes welled up with tears as he hugged me. All of our effort would have been worth it if just that one young boy had been saved. That is the awesomeness of our God -- He changes and transforms a life for all eternity in a moment of time."
More than 40 area churches worked together for a year in organizing the Hall County crusade.
"The old-time Gospel still works. Crusade evangelism still works," Gage often says. "Saturating our communities across America with the Gospel message must be done at all costs."
Baptist Press
HARTSVILLE, S.C. (BP)--Billy Graham probably will never lead a crusade in such Texas towns as San Saba, Clarendon or Perryton, or in Lincolnton, Ga.
But evangelist Rick Gage will hold a four-day GO TELL Area-Wide Crusade in each locale this year.
Last fall, Gage led similar campaigns in Kelleytown Stadium in Hartsville, S.C., and at the Lanier National Speedway near Gainesville, Ga.
In the Hartsville outreach, 660 decisions for Christ were made, including 356 first-time professions of faith.
At the Georgia speedway, 550 decisions were recorded, including 329 first-time professions of faith.
Jack Westmoreland, co-chairman of the Hartsville campaign, noted "the powerful way God moved in this crusade with Rick Gage," calling it high among "the most worthwhile, overwhelming" experiences of his life.
"It is hard to put into words glorious enough to do it justice. The Spirit of God swept through night after night, saving and changing lives. It is beyond anything I could have imagined this side of heaven," Westmoreland said amid tears.
The crusade's closing night -- a youth night -- capped Gage's outreach to area young people through his "On Track" school assemblies, attended by more than 5,000 students who listened to his reflections on life's choices and such issues as drugs, alcohol abuse and teen suicide.
The youth night, complete with a pizza blast, drew more than 1,700 young people to the crusade. "Young people flooded the altars making decisions for Christ that last night," local counseling chairman Warren Arthur said. "We had 100 counselors standing by, but we needed 300. It was phenomenal how powerful and strong the Spirit of God was as the Lord worked in hearts. Many were saved who had no church affiliation at all."
"As I left the stadium that night," said Judy Lyles, the crusade's prayer chairperson, "I felt as if my heart would burst with thankfulness to God. My husband and three sons had been saved at the crusade. I was overwhelmed with an awesome sense that the work God began in this miraculous crusade will go on and on" -- something about which "we are praying seriously."
More than 100 Hartsville-area churches joined forces for the crusade featuring "the Billy Graham of small-town America," working through 13 committees in the various planning stages prior to the Gage's arrival
In Gainesville, Ga., local businessman and crusade chairman Henry Slack remarked, "I've never seen anything like it in my life. Night after night people flooded to the altar. God moved in power and changed lives by the hundreds.
"As I arrived at the crusade Wednesday evening [for the closing service] and turned the corner, I saw a sight that literally took my breath away. More than 4,000 young people and adults packed the grandstands. It was as if I could see God's hand in Holy Spirit power sweeping over the crowd. It was the largest gathering of young people for any event in the history of Hall County.
"After Rick Gage preached, young people began to flood the altar in waves," so much so that "we asked for anyone in the stands who knew how to lead a person to Christ to come help counsel," Slack said. "Only a sovereign God can produce results like that."
Video testimonies were featured from University of Georgia head football coach Mark Richt and Georgia Tech head coach Chan Gailey.
Robbie Foster, pastor of Hopewell Baptist Church, told of one high school football player who made a profession of faith on the crusade's opening night. "He then began to bring his friends, along with many others, who were saved at the crusade," Foster recounted.
"Scores of students from Johnson High School who made decisions at the crusade are hungry for more of the Lord," said Rick Stowe, associate pastor of Chestnut Mountain Church who served as the crusade's counseling and follow-up chairman. Stowe's own 18-year-old son also made a profession of faith in Christ.
Wayne Mock, police operations commander for the Hall County sheriff's department who was in charge of traffic and security for the crusade, told of a 12-year-old who came up to him after a pre-crusade rally and asked if Mock was a Christian. "'Yes, I am, son!'" the officer said, "to which he replied with a radiant face, 'I've only been a Christian for five minutes.' My eyes welled up with tears as he hugged me. All of our effort would have been worth it if just that one young boy had been saved. That is the awesomeness of our God -- He changes and transforms a life for all eternity in a moment of time."
More than 40 area churches worked together for a year in organizing the Hall County crusade.
"The old-time Gospel still works. Crusade evangelism still works," Gage often says. "Saturating our communities across America with the Gospel message must be done at all costs."
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