Baptists engaged in thousands of faith conversations with fairgoers at this year’s Mississippi State Fair that culminated in 373 decisions being made for Christ.

Nearly 200 volunteers with the Mississippi Baptist Convention Board attended the multiday state fair earlier this month, with the ministry having been at the event every year since 2021.

“We had 195 volunteers to participate in the State Fair Ministry,” said MBCB spokesperson Linda Burris to The Christian Post. “We made a record of 2,824 Gospel conversations with 373 of those praying to receive Christ.”

Burris also told CP that while they probably had “about the same number of Gospel conversations each year, they have seen the number of professions of faith increase annually.

Regarding follow-up with those who made decisions, Burris said the state convention office gives each new believer a Gospel tract, a letter, and a booklet on discipleship.

“Our volunteers are assigned a number that they put on the cards of those they share with. A copy of the cards of the ones who received Christ are mailed back to the volunteer who shared with them. They are then able to make contact with them,” she continued.

“We sort the cards according to city and town and mail the information to a local pastor so that they can be contacted by a church in their area.”

Burris described the overall state fair experience as “exciting and scary at the same time,” believing that it was “a confidence builder for those who haven’t shared their faith much.”

“They discover that they can do it and it’s not that hard,” she told CP. “It is rewarding to hear the stories of other believers at the fair and to share with someone hungry to hear the good news of hope.”

In recent years, several mass gatherings have been held in places like college campuses and the Pacific Coast where large numbers of people publicly professed their Christian faith.

During the summer, for example, Harvest Ministries oversaw the second annual Jesus Revolution Baptism at Pirate’s Cove Beach in California, in which around 2,000 baptisms took place.

In late August, a Gospel outreach gathering was held at the Corpus Christi campus of Texas A&M University where around 1,500 students attended and more than 60 were baptized.

New Life Young Adults Pastor Tarik Whitmore, who helped oversee the Texas A&M event, told CP in an earlier interview that event organizers witnessed “many touched by the power of God.”

“The night continued with students and young adults sharing testimonies in real-time of salvation, healing, deliverance, and being filled with the Spirit,” Whitmore recounted.

“The night concluded with a commissioning of those who wanted God to use them on their college campus — All declaring, ‘Here I am. Send me!’”
Sources:Christian Post

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Students in Victoria, Australia, are challenging their Methodist school’s ban on cross necklaces deemed “offensive,” receiving praise from a local pastor.

At Methodist Ladies’ College, a prestigious girls’ school in Melbourne, students have been asked to remove cross necklaces because they might offend others, the Herald Sun reported.

“My friend was wearing a cross and there was another girl in our class who said she found the cross really offensive and so the teacher told her to take it off,” an anonymous student was quoted as saying. “My friend’s parents, who are very religious, tried to get answers from the school and were told ‘it’s not a good look for the school.’”

MLC was founded by the Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1882 and charges around $39,000 a year in fees for Year 12 students, Premier Christian News noted, adding that the school has a strict dress code policy regarding makeup, jewelry and long hair.

“This is supposed to be a religious school but they are listening to minority opinion rather than mainstream religious students,” another student was quoted as saying.

Pastor Murray Campbell criticized the school’s actions in a blog post, noted Sky News.

Well done to the girls who are standing up to the bullish behavior of the school. Well done to the students who are defending their fellow students, whether they are of Christian faith or not,” the pastor was quoted as saying.

Stephen Chavura, a history lecturer and author, told Sky News, “We know now that the word inclusivity means exclusivity, and the word diversity means uniformity, but I want to praise these girls for standing up to woke bullying.”

He encouraged students, stating, “Wear your crosses, if you have a cross turn up to school and wear it, send a message to other students and teachers and to the school in general, that this is a Christian school, it is not a Marxist woke school.”

According to reports, while some students were asked to remove crosses, others were allegedly allowed to wear furry ears, tails and rainbow-themed items.

In response to the allegations, Principal Julia Shea stated, “We aim to apply a consistent uniform policy that prohibits visible jewelry. We do not have any students attending school wearing furry tails and ears.”

She added, “This policy applies equally to all students and is not related to religion or any individual’s beliefs. It ensures that every student adheres to the same standard of presentation, fostering unity within our diverse community.”

MLC acknowledges that many students are there for the education rather than religious reasons.

My Christian News noted that at $39,000 per year, the school’s client base is the elite of Melbourne, “and not Christian parents, and hence not wanting to offend the majority of parents and their children who are there for the education, not religious reasons.”
Sources:Christian Post

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ENANCHORED ൻ്റെ ആഭിമുഖ്യത്തിൽ യുകെ Seaham Sunderland യൂത്ത് സെൻ്ററിൽ വെച്ച് യുവജന മീറ്റിംഗ് ഒക്ടോബർ 26 ന് രാവിലെ 9:30 മുതൽ വൈകിട്ട് 4 മണി വരെ നടത്തപ്പെടും. ജെയ്സൺ ജെയിംസ്, ജിബിൻ എബ്രഹാം, ശാലോം ജേക്കബ് എന്നിവർ ശുശ്രൂഷിക്കും. 13 വയസ്സ് മുതൽ 30 വയസു_വരെയുള്ള യൗവനക്കാർക്ക് വേണ്ടിയുള്ള പ്രോഗ്രാം ആണ് നടക്കുന്നത്. മ്യൂസിക്, ഗെയിംസ്, ഡിസ്കഷൻസ്, ബൈബിൾ സ്റ്റഡി, ചോദ്യോത്തര പരിപാടി, ലൗ ഫീസ്റ്റ് എന്നിവയാണ് യൗവനക്കാർക്ക് വേണ്ടി ഒരുക്കിയിരിക്കുന്നത്. ബ്രദർ , എൽവിൻ ഡാനിയേൽ ഈ പ്രോഗ്രാമിന് നേതൃത്വം കൊടുക്കുന്നു.
Sources:gospelmirror

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