4G Girls Retreat is Coming Soon!

March 25-26, 2011

Georgia Baptist Conference Center in Toccoa, GA

We met with our leadership team for the Girls Retreat this week. We are all getting really excited about the cool stuff that is being planned for this weekend ..... fashion shows, girly parties, fun with friends - just to name a few things.

We also have some amazing speakers coming in to share with us:

Tammie Head will be our speaker during the main sessions. She's a friend of Beth Moore and a great speaker that talks right to the heart of the matter.

Monica Rose will be joining us, as well, for some breakout times. She's the Professor of Women's Ministry at Liberty University and has a heart for girls.

Our worship leaders are incredible as well. Awaken is a worship ministry from Liberty University made up of girls only - how cool is that!!! And Meredith Andrews will be joining us as well. Check out Meredith's page: http://www.meredithandrews.com/.

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!!!

You don't want to miss this amazing weekend!!!

Worship Bands for 2011

EXODUS

We are excited to introduce Exodus to the GO TELL family. Exodus is a contemporary worship band from Liberty University that exists to boldly lead others in lifting high the name of Jesus Christ in worship. The group is made up of six guys and two girls who all attend Liberty University. They often lead worship before 12,000 college students at Liberty University's weekly convocations.

RYAN WINGO

Ryan Wingo has led students in worship for many years, and is considered part of the

GO TELL family. Ryan and his wife Lindsey live in Memphis, Tennessee where Ryan leads worship for Bellevue Baptist Church's Arlington Campus and other church events including Soul Mate Live. He is a published songwriter.

Camp Registration is NOW OPEN!

We are so excited to have our newly designed website up and running!
Our 2011 camp dates, locations, speakers & bands are online

and registration is now open!

Come and be a part of camp in 2011!

Student Camp
$295 per camper (after March 1st, add $10)
June 20-24, 2011 at the Georgia Baptist Conference Center (Toccoa, GA)
June 27-July 1, 2011 at the Georgia Baptist Conference Center (Toccoa, GA)
July 11-15, 2011 at Stephen F. Austin State University (Nacogdoches, TX)

Kids Camp
$255 per camper (after March 1st, add $10)
June 20-24, 2011 at the Georgia Baptist Conference Center (Toccoa, GA)
June 27-July 1, 2011 at the Georgia Baptist Conference Center (Toccoa, GA)

We want to see you and your group there!

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us by email: info@gotellministries.com!

Go Tell Team Ministers in Russia

GO TELL Team
Ministers in Russia

CHANGED LIVES!

We Must Be About Our Father’s Business

“As long as it is day, we must do the work. . . Night is coming when no one can work.”

–John 9:4

Ministering love and hope in the city of Tver, Russia, Rick Gage and a team of GO TELL volunteers were used of God to led 160 precious Russian people to the Lord. Over 1,300 Bible, Christian books, and Gospel bracelets were distributed along with 500 pounds of aid and medical supplies. Seven churches were encouraged and given hope.

This was Ron Jessup’s fourteenth year traveling with GO TELL’S mission teams. “The Lord led us to a difficult area,” says Ron. “We were the first American missionaries many of the Tver residents had ever seen. Most had never heard of Jesus or knew that He loved them and died for them. The Lord gave us a great ministry opportunity in this unevangelized area.”

Mechelle Bryant spoke of her fifth trip to Russia with GO TELL, “God uses each trip to do a new work in my life as well as the people we minister to. God has laid on my heart a burden for the people in Russia. Each year He opens doors for us and we have to be willing to go through them and do the work He had called us to do. This year we were able to minister in orphanages, hospitals, culture centers, homes and churches. It's amazing how God pulls together a team from five different states who meet for the first time at the airport, and He uses us to make an eternal difference for HIM!"

“God was always with us in Russia,” says Bev Noe. “This was my second year, and I knew I was supposed to go. It wasn't about me. I had never before wanted to go to Russia, but when I saw the video clip of the children in the orphanages and realized the tremendous need, it brought tears to my eyes. It was not a convenient trip, but I knew it was an opportunity to be faithful to God. As we lived out the Great Commission, it was awesome. God was with us in a powerful way! I believe He used me and all the others to make a difference in the lives of people who are so hungry for Him—we connected; we cried together. I will never forget sharing the love of Christ, and I am so thankful!

“We are so very blessed to be able to serve with Rick Gage. He is a man of God who is totally focused on winning souls for Christ. Many decisions were made for Christ at every destination. His work with the pastors in Russia, his passion for sharing Christ and reaching people has opened many doors...in hospitals, schools, orphanages, senior homes, shelters, everywhere. There is such tremendous need. For God to use each of us as we shared our personal testimonies through interpreters was an experience of a lifetime. We came home from Russia forever changed, blessed beyond measure.”

Roger Green was thrilled to be able to preach in Russia. “The people were very receptive. They are a beautiful people who we saw transformed by the love of Christ. I believe our presence brought great encouragement to faithful pastors who labor in difficult circumstances with the Russian Orthodox Church that does not allow evangelism.”

Although just fifteen years old, Roxanne Squires was deeply impacted by the trip. “Flying to the other side of the world to share God’s love with others is life changing. The smiles on orphans’ faces and hugs from the elderly melted my heart. I can never be the same again. The Lord has definitely called me to the mission field for the rest of my life.”

“I was on a rough road for a while,” comments Ron Bayer. “How deeply thankful I am that the Lord was so good to allow me to go on this trip and work in His harvest fields. God works miracles. He has in my life and in the lives of those we touched and saw changed in Russia. You can’t go on a trip like this and not be changed.”

“I believe with all my heart that one day very soon we will stand before the Lord,” says evangelist Rick Gage, founder and president of GO TELL. “While I long for that day, God has entrusted us now with the tremendous responsibility and privilege of sharing the Gospel with a lost and dying world.

“We ministered and shared the Gospel with hundreds of children living in orphanages in Tver, Russia. With shortages of food, clothing, and medicines, these children are living in deplorable conditions with little hope. We showered them with God’s love as we ministered to their physical and spiritual needs. Tver is filled with people who have never heard a clear presentation of the Gospel. As long as God gives me strength, I will continue to take the life-changing message of Christ to a lost world. Our team comes back from every trip knowing they received far more than they gave.”

For more information about GO TELL mission trips, call 1-866-I-GO-TELL, email at info@gotellministries.com, or visit the Website at www.gotellministries.com.

Sharing the Gospel in Tver, Russia!

Dearest friends –

I have arrived safely in Russia with our team of volunteers and we are in Tver sharing the Gospel with hundreds of children living in orphanages. With shortages of food, clothing and medicines, these children are living in deplorable conditions with little hope for the future. Please pray that God’s love will shower down on these precious, hurting children as we minister to their physical and spiritual needs.

This region is filled with people who have never heard a clear presentation of the Gospel. In addition to praying for traveling mercies, please pray that these children and the people of Tver will hear and respond to God’s word. Thank you for your faithfulness and support of GO TELL Ministries.

Rick Gage

Harvest moon shines on harvest of hundreds at West Georgia Rick Gage GO TELL Crusade

Harvest moon shines on harvest of hundreds
at West Georgia Rick Gage GO TELL Crusade

Douglasville, Georgia (Sept. 27, 2010) – A rare appearance of the super harvest moon shone down upon hundreds who turned to Jesus for salvation during the West Georgia Rick Gage GO TELL Crusade in Douglasville, Georgia. Hosted by nearly 40 Douglas County churches, the four-night event took place Sept. 19-22 in the parking lot of Arbor Place Mall off of Interstate 20 at the Chapel Hill Road exit.

“In the parking lot of a mall, we experienced a super harvest,” commented Jerry Adair of County Line Baptist Church in Lithia Springs, one of the crusade’s counseling chairmen. For the entire event, Adair said there were 477 spiritual decisions, including 260 salvation commitments. On the concluding night alone, there were 143 salvation decisions and 90 other spiritual decisions. More than 12,000 attended the event.

GO TELL evangelists Rick Gage and Rick Stanley also spoke to 15,000 students in the county’s 13 middle and high schools in 22 ON TRACK School Assemblies, said Kevin Williams, minister to students at the First Baptist Church of Douglasville. Gage said he is “especially grateful” to the Douglas County Board of Education and School District.

While they were not allowed to speak of Jesus, Gage and Stanley did encourage the students to avoid addictions. They also invited them to attend the closing night of the crusade when free Chick-fil-A sandwiches and drinks were given away courtesy of Crusade Chairman Mike Moore of Chick-fil-A. More than 5,000 attended that Wednesday night service, keeping the more than 300 counselors busy with hundreds of decisions for Christ.

The thousands in attendance were invited to sing along with worship leader Chuck Sullivan, his band and guest singer Joy Fowler. On Tuesday night, the guest evangelist was Tony Nolan, author of “The Hurt Healer” and tour pastor and Gospel communicator for Casting Crowns Lifesong Tour and Winter Jam, the largest Christian concert tour in America, visiting more than 119 cities and experiencing more than 87,000 public professions of faith in Christ. Other GO TELL guest artists were Outcast BMX, A Ransom Plea, Edenfield and Don Dodds.

The Rick Gage GO TELL Crusade also occurred during the first anniversary of the devastating 500-year flood that claimed the lives of seven Douglas County residents, damaged 170 roads and bridges and flooded many homes.

“We had another flood this week, rolling down those hills, surrounding the parking lot, wave after wave, flowing down as hundreds got saved,” said Randy Shirley, pastor of Chapel Hill Baptist Church in Douglasville. “It’s been the biggest blessing of my life to see what happened the last four nights.”

“The real value is to be part of a movement of God with churches of different tags,” observed Barnabas Sprinkle, evangelist with the First Presbyterian Church of Douglasville of the PC(USA) denomination.

Crusade Treasurer Ned Fowler, a local banker and a member of The Church at Chapel Hill in Douglasville, said, “I’ve really felt a lot of unity building in this community. Rick Gage has helped change the spiritual landscape of our community.”

Calling Gage “a man of high integrity,” Fowler said, “Last night’s message was absolutely the best, most anointed evangelical message I have ever heard. I would put that message up against anybody’s.”

Mary Kaplan, who assisted her husband Tom, one of the crusade’s counseling chairmen, said one counselor was grateful to see his own young son being led to the Lord by another counselor. Tom Kaplan is the interim pastor of Cowan Mill Church (SBC) in Winston.

Gage also preached to the pastors and lay leaders attending the daily luncheons, encouraging them to “follow up by getting into the homes” of each person who made a salvation decision. Agreeing with Gage, Dr. John Pennington, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Douglasville, said, “We don’t need to wait around. They need visits from more than one church.”

During these luncheons, thanks were given to Kevin Maples, senior pastor of Dorsett Shoals Baptist Church in Douglasville, for expressing his burden to bring a countywide crusade event to the area two years ago. “Kevin got the flame,” added Fowler. Ned Fowler is also the organizer of the Prayer Center of West Georgia which has a weekly jail ministry.

Maples said, “All I can say is our church invested countless man hours and thousands of dollars, and it was worth it all. We would do it all over again. How often can we see 260 people saved in one week in our county? Praise the Lord.”

“I would like to do six to eight of these crusades a year. We’re ready to go,” Gage told the pastors and lay leaders.

For 22 years, Gage has been leading GO TELL Crusades in smaller towns across America. He and his Georgia-based team also host overseas missions trips to Russia, the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica; GO TELL Sundays; and summer camps for children and teens in several states. His student internship program has led to the awarding of full- and half-tuition scholarships to several students at Christian colleges and universities across America.

The former college football coach is a son of evangelist Freddie Gage of Texas, whose other sons Rodney, Paul and Daniel also are involved in Christian ministry.

For more information about Rick Gage and GO TELL Ministries, call 1-866-I-GO-TELL, email info@gotellministries.com or visit www.gotellministries.com

RICK GAGE CRUSADE DRAWS HUNDREDS TO FOOTBALL STADIUM

RICK GAGE CRUSADE DRAWS HUNDREDS

TO FOOTBALL STADIUM

Four-night Event Makes History in Tulia

Evangelist Rick Gage has a big heart for small towns. When key leaders met with him about bringing a spiritual crusade to Swisher County, many were skeptical it could be done.

Although planning took almost nine months, citizens were astonished as hundreds attended the Panhandle Plains GO TELL Crusade. The results were staggering. By the crusade’s conclusion, 343 spiritual decisions had been recorded, including 175 first-time professions of faith.

“It was an amazing week,” said Crusade Chairman Bryan Schrader. “I knew God was really about to do something big in our community when we started out Saturday evening with a pre-crusade youth rally. When Rick Gage talked to an area high school football team, 15 of them made life-changing decisions for Jesus Christ. The crusade was the greatest, most impactful event our county has ever seen.”

“What I witnessed happen in our county cannot be humanly explained,” said Pastor Eddie Helms of Calvary Baptist. “Our community needed hope, and God moved in mighty power. Our people have watched Billy Graham on television, but to see that same kind of thing happen here has deeply touched and moved us. This is just the beginning for us.”

Pastor Helms continued, “The economic downturn has hurt our community, but we believed God and stepped out in faith to see this crusade happen. When Rick Gage left town, all the bills were paid! People were sacrificial in their giving, knowing their gifts will reap eternal rewards. One lady in my church was asked by her hairdresser when she was coming in for her regular permanent. She said, ‘I’m skipping this one. I gave my perm money to the crusade.’ We are continuing what the crusade started and will feel its impact for years to come.”

Excitement pervades the area as churches are welcoming those who were saved at the crusade and are preparing to baptize them and help them grow in their faith. Pastor Ed Soules of the First Assembly of God Church is working feverishly on a dream center he envisions being used by all the churches of the area for life ministries as the spirit of revival continues.

“It was amazing how laypeople from many churches came together and worked hard to make this crusade a success,” commented Pastor Soules. “The unity was tremendous and was greatly needed in our county that has seen its share of hardships. This is the biggest thing we’ve ever experienced.”

Wednesday’s service, the culmination of the crusade, was its greatest night. More than 600 students were treated to a Pizza Blast. More than 80 first-time professions of faith were made that night.

A counselor for the crusade, Barry Street took his mission of loving young people seriously. He hired two school buses from another county and brought 40 students from Kress, a neighboring community, to the Wednesday night crusade service. Of those, all but seven made first-time salvation decisions for Christ at the crusade. “What Barry did for those students was phenomenal,” said Schrader. “The demeanor of those kids going up and going back was totally different. It was a God-thing!”

Counseling Co-chairman Don Sanders said excitedly, “We had trained what we thought were a lot of counselors, but nothing could have prepared us for what we experienced the last night of the crusade. As young people began to respond to the invitation, I told the counselors, ‘You’re each going to have to counsel two people.’ But as waves kept coming, some had to help even more.”

Sanders continued, “Rick Gage was very straightforward and did not play games when talking about a person’s eternal destiny. It was amazing how the Spirit of God came over the football field as people responded, making lifetime decisions. It is a sight I will never forget. I saw many young people literally sobbing their way to Christ. Our community will never be the same again.”

Greg Culwell, Executive Director of Driscoll House, a faith-based halfway house recovery program, was elated when every single one of the men going through the program made a decision for Christ. “The sight of the men huddled together at the altar– with their arms wrapped around each other praying–was priceless. The work the Lord did and continues to do in their lives will be felt in their homes and communities. One young man, who was 19 years old, had the greatest change I have ever seen in an individual. We are deeply grateful to God!”

“The crusade was absolutely wonderful,” Linda Foster said excitedly. “Big crowds. Many decisions. Beautiful weather. God is good! I worked with children, and that was so heartwarming. An orphanage from the Plainview area brought some children, and several of those precious ones were saved. When one of the little girls was asked what happened to her, she replied, ‘I found Jesus in my heart!’ They have already begun a follow-up program with the children.”

The Saturday before the crusade, every house in Tulia was visited and left with a crusade flyer. For weeks before the crusade, people met at the downtown gazebo and prayed. The meeting grew and became so popular, uniting denominations, that many asked after the crusade, “Can we continue?”

The Thursday night after the crusade, people gathered again at the gazebo to continue what the crusade started. The Friday after the crusade, Don Sander’s real estate office was visited by five people who could not talk about anything but the crusade.

During the day, Gage and his GO TELL team conducted ON TRACK School Assemblies in area schools. Topics addressed life’s choices and the dangers of drugs, alcohol abuse, teen suicide and premarital sex. Daily noon luncheons were blessed times when people shared testimonies from the previous evening and church leaders received decision-card information.

Follow-up is being taken seriously by pastors and lay leaders. The Sunday after the crusade, First Assembly hosted a dinner for all those who made decisions. They also will be offering a New Beginner’s Class to help them grow in their faith.

“Nothing is more important to me than winning people to Jesus,” says Evangelist Rick Gage. “My heart is overwhelmed at what God did and will continue to do in Swisher County. Saturating our communities across America with the life-changing Gospel message must be done at all costs. It takes time, money and involvement to reach people; but it will be eternally worth it one day soon.”

Rick Stanley, an evangelist and a stepbrother of Elvis Presley, gave his moving testimony at the crusade. He is in demand as a speaker and has spoken at four Billy Graham Crusades. “Rick Gage has a heart for the towns that most people overlook,” Stanley says. “His mentality is that there is nothing small in the Kingdom of God. And God always moves in mighty ways–like He did here in Swisher County.”

Chuck Sullivan and the Joel Vaughn Band provided anointed praise and worship music during the five-night event.

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,” he says.

Gage has witnessed multiplied thousands of decisions for Christ through his many evangelistic outreaches in America and abroad. Rick Gage GO TELL Ministries include crusades, summer youth camps, school assemblies, GO TELL Sundays and overseas missions trips.

For more information about Rick Gage GO TELL Ministries, please call 1-866-I-GO-
TELL, email at info@gotellministries.com or visit the Web site at www.gotellministries.com.

Ex-NFL player to GO TELL teens: Shine amid darkness

Ex-NFL player to GO TELL teens: Shine amid darkness
By Keith Collier, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas

When the former NFL player stepped onto the stage, he knew the several hundred youth seated before him may have expected someone bigger.

“I know some of you are shocked,” Daryl Jones said to students at the GO TELL student camp on the campus of Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. “You heard about a football player-preacher coming to speak, and you see this short dude standing here. But I serve a big God, and that big God decided not to make me big, but I can run really fast.”
Jones, a wide receiver on the national champion Miami Hurricanes in 2001 who also played in the NFL for several years, spoke to student from Matthew 5:14-16 on the importance of shining as lights in a dark world.

Using examples from his football days, Jones recounted how God uniquely placed him on teams in order to shine the light of the Gospel in those locker rooms. In addition to one-on-one relationships with players, Jones led chapel services and Bible studies during his time as a player.

“[Jesus] wants you to know who you are and where He has placed you,” Jones told the students. “You are light, and He has placed you in the world.”

As Christians shine as lights in the world, Jones said non-Christians will be offended by the exposure of their own sins. “The world wants you to get a little dirty,” he said, “because it makes them feel better about their dirt.”

However, Jones said, the light of Christ also provides a measure of peace in an unbeliever’s life similar to the effects of a nightlight comforting someone who is afraid of the dark. Christians shine light into the world by reflecting the light of Christ like the moon reflects the sun’s light, Jones noted. When Christians do this, the glory goes to God, not them.

“Your presence is crucial, and the world needs you,” Jones said at the mid-July camp. “Don’t ever feel insignificant. Never feel like you don’t have a place in life.”

Jones earned a master of divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, and currently is pursuing a PH.D. in new Testament at the seminary. He also serves as youth pastor at Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas.

GoTell Ministries receives 2010 Pilgrim Award!

Toccoa, Ga. (June 29, 2010) – Evangelist Rick Gage of GO TELL Ministries received the 2010 Pilgrim Award for Workplace Evangelism from the American Bible Society. The award, named in honor of Texas businessman Bo Pilgrim, is presented for a lifetime of Christian service and workplace evangelism.

Simon Barnes and Charlie Krueger of the American Bible Society and Pilgrim presented the award to Gage at the GO TELL Camp held last week in Toccoa, Georgia.

"It is an honor to receive this award from the American Bible Society and my dear friend Bo Pilgrim. The Word of God and evangelism are the two driving forces behind the ministries of GO TELL," said Gage.

Now in its 22nd year, Gage’s GO TELL Camps have trained more than 90,000 teens and leaders in evangelism. Last year, 2,467 students and leaders from 110 churches in 16 states participated in the summer camps, resulting in more than 1,000 spiritual decisions for Christ.

In addition to his summer camp and missions ministry, Gage, a former college football coach turned evangelist, has spent the last two decades filling high school stadiums through crusades in small communities throughout America. Using Billy Graham’s strategy, local churches assist in organizing and providing follow-up ministry.

The criteria for the Pilgrim Award include:

• To honor lives dedicated to providing biblically-based teaching and the impact it creates.
• To recognize individuals whose contributions to Bible literacy and scripture proclamation have made a Kingdom difference.
• To honor a lifelong commitment to the communication and application of the Bible and to having a devotion to seeing lives transformed by it.
• To make the Bible personal, understandable and relevant in the lives of people everywhere.
• To motivate fellow Christians to spread the scriptures.
• To inspire generations of Christians with a passion for reading and applying God's Word to their lives.
• To implant the Scriptures into the hearts, minds and lives of both believers and non-believers.
• To share, on a personal level, one’s own faith with others and to instruct them about how to become a Christian and apply Christian faith practices to their daily lives.
• To serve as an example to others how to be a Christian businessman and to actually practice what is being preached.
• To publicly stand up as a crusader for Christ.
• To be willing to continue, year after year, to publicly evangelize and promote God’s Word and to share it with the world.

The award’s inscription reads, “Rick Gage’s selfless dedication to the cause of Christ has allowed him to witness tens of thousands of decisions for Christ through his many evangelistic outreaches in America and abroad. Multiplied thousands of lives have been radically and eternally changed by the power of God through GO TELL Crusades, youth camps, school assemblies, internships and overseas missions trips. Urgency and faithfulness mark Rick Gage’s life – a life given as a first-fruits’ offering to the Lord while he serves with a calling to fulfill the Great Commission.”

PHOTOS from Student Camps 2010!

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Student Camps 2010!

Toccoa Camp 2010 PHOTOS!

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GO TELL Kids Camp

Sign up for Go Tell Kids Camp, a day camp in your own backyard!

GO TELL Kids Camp is focused on meeting the spiritual needs of kids (those who have completed the 3rd through 5th grade) through encouraging a personal relationship with Christ. We offer worship, Bible study, small group time, recreation, games, drama, and lots of fun activities to strengthen relationships and make memories your kids will never forget. Day rates and week rates are available.

This will take place June 21-28 and June 28-July 2 at the Georgia Baptist Conference Center in Toccoa, Georgia.

To sign up or for more information, please call us at 1-866-I-GO TELL (1-866-446-8355) or visit us online at http://www.gotellministries.com/camps/kidscamp.html.

Testimonies

GO TELL Camps

“I am a 15-year-old guy and have attended GO TELL Camp for two years now. Thank you for caring about teens like me. If it wasn’t for you, I’d be on my way to hell right now. I accepted Christ in my life at GO TELL Camp. I love coming there to worship. Please pray for me and my brothers. We hardly ever see my mom because she is always in the living room doing drugs and we are not allowed in there. I’ll never quit praying for her to get saved and know my Jesus. It was so wonderful at GO TELL and now I’m back home where it is like a little taste of hell, but I’m going to keep praying. I love you.”
--Rodney

“This was our fourth GO TELL Camp and the best. On the drive home, our students sought God about how they could step up and be proactive in reaching their friends for Christ. When we got home, we purchased a 10X-sized Tee shirt and hung it in our youth building. It is huge! Students have written names of unsaved friends on it and are clothing them with Jesus Christ. They have started a buddy program and are adopting an unsaved friend to pray for and win to Christ. Because of God’s work in our lives at GO TELL, we’re excited, refreshed, and rejuvenated!”
--Youth Pastor Brian Canuteson

“We love the great balance between evangelism and discipleship and fun games and activities. Our students are still on fire from last year because the focus is on equipping them to minister once they return from camp. The decisions we have seen made at GO TELL are genuine and lasting. Last Sunday I baptized twelve who were saved this year at camp. How very thankful we are to have found GO TELL Camp.”
--Youth Pastor Dan Brower

“We came back from GO TELL Camp on fire for God! In the evening service this past Sunday night we brought GO TELL to our church. Because of our testimonies, many came to the altars and rededicated their lives to God. Afterward, we went to Burger King, which is also the Greyhound stop for our town. We witnessed to 40 people and nine accepted Christ as their personal Lord and Savior!”
--Donnie

“I just got back from GO TELL Camp. God used you all to change my life. I will never be the same again! Even though I have been in church all my life, I was never saved. The last night of camp, I surrendered my life to Christ. It was the best day of my life. I started crying then because my life had really just begun. I’m crying now as I type this. Thank you! I love you and I love the Lord!”
--Samantha

“I’ll never forget the first time I took a youth group to a GO TELL Camp in 1994. My kids had never heard preaching so intense, and I wondered if they could handle it or if I’d be without a job by the end of the week. God’s Spirit fell on our group in a mighty way. Kids who had never shown any spiritual interest were on their faces weeping, crying out to God. Kids were saved. Nominal Christian kids got serious about their faith. Our leaders were convicted of sin in their lives, and I was convicted of my complacency and lack of care for souls. God did a radical work in our youth group that night. GO TELL Camp is the highlight of our year and critical to the spiritual health of our students and leaders. The results we see year after year are real and lasting.”
--Associate Pastor Shane O’Guin

“I came to GO TELL Camp as a youth leader. The first night God’s Spirit was so strong in convicting power that after leading a teen in my youth group to Christ, I put my Bible down, turned to another counselor, and got saved myself. This act of humility broke the hearts of my youth group; many began to weep and admit they had never really been saved. Twenty of us were saved that night!”
--Youth leader, Cathy

“I desperately needed to know that somebody cared. The youth group that invited me to attend GO TELL Camp with them didn’t know before we left that I was pregnant and scared. At GO TELL I heard about and saw the love of Jesus. I had thought about an abortion. Now my baby will be told about the Lord who has given me hope and a future.”
--Bridgett

“GO TELL Camp is so critical to the spiritual health of our young people and leaders that I offer it for two different weeks each summer. That is how badly I want our student and leaders to go. Many of them go both weeks. How God moves at GO TELL is nothing short of miraculous. Every year I’ve brought hard, cold-hearted kids who no one could seem to reach. The Spirit of God is so strong at GO TELL that I’ve never seen one of those kids get past Thursday night without God breaking their hearts and changing their lives.”
--Youth Pastor Vince Pienske

GO TELL Crusades

“As I left the stadium Wednesday night, 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.”
--Judy Lyles, Prayer Chairman

"I've never seen anything like it in my life. Night after night people flooded to the altars. God moved in power and changed lives by the hundreds! As I arrived at the crusade Wednesday evening 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 preached, young people began to flood the altars in waves. The first wave brought over 300 who repeated the sinner's prayer out loud. We sent them to the counseling station where they could speak one-on-one with our trained counselors. Then, almost 500 came in a second wave! We asked for anyone in the stands who knew how to lead a person to Christ to come help counsel. Only a sovereign God can produce results like that!"
--Henry Slack, Crusade Chairman

“Churches of our county came together and we worked as one for the Lord. I truly believe that as God saw our hearts united, it put a smile on His face. A shofar was sounded, and God’s children came together. The great effort was met with a mighty move of God. The long-term effects will be seen for many years to come. Words cannot describe the awesome joy of seeing entire families come to Christ. One man who had visited my church came to me and said, ‘Pastor, I want to be free. I want to be delivered from pot.’ He handed me a bag of pot, and then raised his hands to the sky and began to praise God who had gloriously liberated him!”
--Pastor Joey Turner

“The crusade was awesome, one of the greatest things that has ever happened in my life. Our football coach brought the entire team to the crusade straight from practice. They were still in their uniforms. As you looked out during the invitation time, it was an amazing sight to see many bowed in prayer in their uniforms all over the end zone. Life-time decisions for Christ were made, and I can already tell a difference in my school.”
--Student Charlsie Gerrard

“The powerful way God moved made this crusade the most worthwhile, overwhelming experience of my 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.”
--Co-chairman Jack Westmoreland

“When Rick Gage talked about having a tremendous number of young people on Youth Night, I really doubted it could happen. But I stood in awe as I parked cars and watched young people flood in. I’ve lived in Lincoln Country since 1970, but I’ve never seen anything like what God did, and continues to do, through the crusade. I thought events of this caliber only came to big cities.” --Bryan Morrison

“God visited our county in a miraculous way. Hundreds were swept into the Kingdom. Relationships were healed; families were reunited; prominent citizens were led to faith in Christ by people broken with love for others; church members were saved; denominational and racial barriers came down. There is a different atmosphere in our entire community.”
--Pastor Cail Pressey

“The crusade was the most awesome spiritual experience of my life. On the Sunday morning after the crusade, our entire worship service was devoted to testimonies of how God powerfully moved in lives at the crusade. The service just went on and on. Our evening service included our entire congregation working together to follow up on those who had made decisions. Now that is powerful and something only God could do!”
--Kirby Sechrist, Missions Coordinator

“It was an awesome thing to be a part of this crusade. Our kick-off banquet in February had over 900 people present. It was the largest banquet ever held in Cherokee County. Over 200 committee workers from 67 churches worked together to see people of all ages make decisions for Christ. Seeing how many lives were impacted was truly awesome. The long-term effects will be seen for many years to come.”
--Crusade Chairman Sam Burns

“My heart raced as I looked at those standing in line waiting for counselors, and there stood my grandson and his fiancé. What a personally elating time it was to lead them to faith in Christ. A couple I had been praying for and talking to for a year and half also got saved at the crusade. The miracle stories just go one and on, and we will see to it that they continue.”
--Pastor Ray Jenkins, Counseling Chairman

“The crusade was absolutely the most wonderful move of God this county has ever experienced. The mighty outpouring of God’s Spirit sparked a revival that will continue. God moved in power in countless lives, and the huge impact of this crusade has changed this county forever. We are already working diligently to follow-up on the many decisions that were made. Blundale Baptist will baptize more than 50 people in the days ahead. Included in that number will be five family members of one of our church’s most faithful women who has attended this church alone for years. Words can’t possibly describe her joy at seeing her husband, three gown children, and a future son-in-law make first-time professions of faith during the crusade.”
--Pastor Jamie Archer

“The crusade far surpassed any of my expectations. Our community is on fire for Christ now. Everywhere you go people are talking about what God did and continues to do. God even worked in our budget with our financial response almost identical to our budget. It was the best money we ever spent. A call for Christ was issued like we’ve never had before in this community, and God showed up and changed and transformed lives.”
--Milton Gray, Finance Chairman

“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! Local police officers who worked security for the crusade reported astonishing results from people in surrounding neighborhoods who were within earshot of Rogan Field. As the gospel message resounded from the football field, some stopped their barbeques and listened. They started to weep and bowed their knees on the grass in their backyards. The officers used this opportunity to talk to them about Christ. 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. 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.”
--Pastor Sam Crosby

A Note from Jordan Easley

It’s that time of year again where your mailbox is being flooded with shiny brochures that guarantee you the most incredible student camp experience ever. So how is GO TELL Camp any different than the rest?

After partnering with GO TELL Camps for nearly 10 years, I’ve discovered that GO TELL provides more than an entertaining week away where a student gets a little Jesus time. It’s a platform that allows people to not only meet Christ but also GET Christ. Your students will walk away from GO TELL Camp challenged to live out their faith, to share their faith, and make a difference in the communities they live in once they get home.

Is GO TELL Camp fun? --- absolutely! --- but as a Youth Pastor, I know you want more than that for your teenagers this summer. I would highly encourage you to take a chance, change it up a bit, get out of your routine, and get your students to GO TELL Camp! You’ll be glad you did.


Co-laborer,
-Jordan Easley
Lead Student Pastor
Second Baptist, Houston, Texas

2010 Costa Rica Mission Trip

July 20 - 27, 2010


For many years, GO TELL teams have conducted overseas missions trips with a heart to reach those forgotten or overlooked by others. Hundreds of students and adults have participated in these trips in recent years. The GO TELL missionaries have shared the Gospel through evangelistic meetings in a number of venues and have distributed resources to many in need.

• Schools
• Churches
• Orphanages
• Hospitals
• The Streets
• Door-to-door

These resources include:

• Food
• Clothing
• Medical Supplies
• Bibles
• Christian Literature

Check out our new 2010 Mission Video!









Plan to join us on this Great Commission experience!
Call today for more information: 1.866.I.GO.TELL

GO TELL Intern Leader Rob Hardy participated in the Costa Rica missions trip.

"It was also very humbling to see just a small glimpse of the country's poverty. I was personally challenged in my own relationship with the Lord through seeing how much they don't have and how much I do have as far as possessions go," he said. "Overall it was a very worthwhile trip that the Lord used in my life and the lives of others on our trip to open our eyes that God is at work everywhere, working all things to His own praise and glory."

A Letter from John Hays

To Whom It May Concern,

Our meeting with Rick Gage will go down as the most successful harvest event in the life of Jersey Baptist Church.

Rick shared the Gospel in a way that was captivating and with incredible conviction. Over 200 total decisions were made over the 4 day event; approximately 70 decisions to follow Christ with half of those being adults.

In my entire ministry of 28 years, I have never had a more flexible and easy to accommodate guest speaker in our church.

I would highly recommend Rick Gage and Go Tell Ministries.

Most Sincerely,
John A. Hays

Senior Pastor

Pastor, our team stands ready to partner with you in reaching a multitude of souls for Christ in your area. Call 1-866-I-GO-TELL to schedule a GO TELL local church crusade today.