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Indiana @ tOSU Ministry Report – Oct 6, 2018

October 9, 2018 by Michael Coughlin

Kurtis preaching while Miri holds a sign. We gave away over a half a dozen Bibles!

Oct 6 was the first game this season where we arrived after the game began. For the first three games this year, we would normally arrive about 3 hours before kickoff, and minister to the crowds as they walk to the game.

This week’s game was 4pm, so we planned to arrive about 6pm. This gets us there about an hour to an hour an a half before the game ends. The evangelism is very different from before to after game.

Kurtis is almost 19 and is a college freshman at Cedarville University. He has been preaching for a couple years and the Lord is growing him. 

Imagine a simple scenario with simple numbers. Before the game, let’s say about 30,000 walk past us over the course of 3 hours. That is about 10,000 people per hour or about 1,600 people every ten minutes who walk past and hear the gospel or get a tract.

Post-game evangelism differs because instead of a few hours of people hanging around and making their way toward the stadium, the entire crowd is leaving the football game at roughly the same time. So that 30,000 people who are walking back to their cars makes their way in about an hour. So instead of about 1,600 people walking past you every 10 minutes, it’s more like 5,000 people every 10 minutes!

This makes for much larger crowds while preaching. Notice in this photo below how many people are within earshot of my preaching!

Additionally, it seems people are more willing to take tracts or Bibles because they are just on their way home. Very few people want to carry a Bible to a football game, but if you’re just getting in your car anyway, why not?

 

Jason and Miri

I’m thankful to Jason and Miri Roberts and Kurtis and Kenton Gould for going with me this week. We had a sweet time of worship prior to evangelism and sang A Mighty Fortress. Jason commented that this really got him in a spirit of worship and service to God, and he thinks it had a calming effect on Miri, too, who is only 9 years old, but is a baptized believer serving the Lord Jesus Christ.

Worshiping with hymns is something I hope to do every time we are out together!

We handed out hundreds of tracts, and Kurtis and I preached for almost a total of 3 hours. Many souls heard the Word of God. Our Lord kept evildoers away from us and sent encouragement, as always. I even received a $1 donation. Praise the Lord that someone desired to support us!

It was a night when we could see that a few more laborers would have helped us pass out thousands more tracts. Would you pray that the Lord would raise up more laborers for the harvest?

One highlight was when I was preaching after the game, Kurtis overheard someone say, “Ugh, I thought that guy wasn’t here this week.”

I actually wondered if people would notice we weren’t there for pre-game! It is nice to know that our consistency is noticed. This is one of the keys to returning to the same location every home game for a whole season. Sinners notice, and we hope God would use these means to draw folks to His preacher — that they might hear and believe!

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  1. Jeff Mardling says

    October 9, 2018 at 9:42 pm

    Hey Michael, great and encouraging report. I have experienced post game crowds in Ann Arbor and find the same. More encouragement from some, and more viciousness (no doubt the result of more drinking) from others.

    Definitely a regular presence to preach the gospel tills hard spiritual soil. I pray for an opportunity to make it there soon to labour with you and the team brother.
    (Mr. Bradshaw did mention the Buckeye -Wolverine game is there this year) haha
    blessings from just over the boarder.

  2. mcoughlin says

    October 9, 2018 at 11:24 pm

    Amen! I talked to Bradshaw today and your name came up. Hope to meet you sometime this side of Heaven.

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