My two daughters and I had just finished shopping at Trader Joe’s, when we spotted a young man sitting in front of Jamba Juice with headphones on, reading a book and with a dog sitting at his feet. D.D. and Laurel Ann ran to pet the dog and as they did, I asked the [...]

The blue-haired-Mohawk-guy named Clay came over as I was barbequing with my two daughters at Wilderness Park and accepted our offer of turkey dogs, still hot on the grill. As he left our picnic table to get them from the BBQ, my 5 year-old, D.D., whispered conspiratorially, “Dada? Are you going to tell him [...]

Here are the interviews I conducted with Brother Robert Hagler and Brother Robert Sevensky of “The Order of the Holy Cross” at Mount Calvary Monastery and Retreat House in the mountains overlooking the Santa Barbara harbor. I didn’t have a tape recorder with me so I was writing furiously as we spoke. While [...]

Hi Everyone,
I recently spent 4 days and 3 nights at Mount Calvary Monastery in Santa Barbara to get some much needed rest (at the urging of my wife). This is a Benedictine Monastery and the “Brothers” are of “The Order of the Holy Cross” which numbers about 40 men who live in various homes [...]

Dear Friends,
Sometimes it’s hard to find a spot to break into a conversation and share the Gospel, so I like looking for natural transitions that help me enter in to the “Jesus Zone”…
To the guy working at the dry cleaners-
Me:”Man it’s hot in here!”
He:”Yeah. And it’s going to get a whole lot hotter later.”
Me:”I know [...]

Dear Friends,
I had to check my heart. Why am I telling people the Gospel? It got to the point that I had to have a BIG story every week so the readers of this E-mail would stay interested. The motivating force behind my evangelistic efforts were becoming people-driven and not necessarily God-pleasing. [...]

As I returned to my car I noticed that there were 3 postcards left under the wiper blades by the Punkers.
Three out of the Four punkers wrote on some Tower Records post-cards the following…
One postcard said: “All things die.”-The Future
The second post-card said: “E=MC squared. Energy is neither created nor destroyed. When [...]

Dear Friends,
I just got out of my car in the Sav-On parking lot when I spotted them: four kids in their early twenties clad in black leather and two had fish hooks in their noses…
“Hey can I ask you guys a question? If you were to die would you go to Heaven or Hell?”
“Nowhere. [...]

Dear Friends,
Coming back from a dolphin watching trip in Dana Point with my family, I took the 73 toll road to avoid traffic. I pulled up to the bored looking fellow in the toll-booth and said, “Jesus loves you” as I handed him $2.50.
He said, “That will be $3.00, sir. ”
Sheepishly, I gave him [...]

Dear Friends,
My daughter’s 5th birthday was June 23 and we prepared to have a big birthday bash on the beach in her honor with balloons, hot dogs, watermelon, cake…and 15 screaming kids and their parents. As I’m bringing things down to the sand and setting them up, my wife points to the homeless man [...]

Dear Friends,
The following is a seven day chronicle of evangelizing for the period, Sunday June 13- Saturday June 19…
Sun. 6/13
At Hope Chapel: A couple came in needing assistance. After listening to the husband and letting him know we could help him out with some groceries, I asked if he knew where he was going [...]

Dear Friends,
As I walked in to AAA to renew my registration last Friday, the employees were wearing Hawaiian shirts, so I said, “Hey, it makes me ant to go to Hawaii. What are you wearing those for?”
One out of the four answered, “We want to tell you about our Hawaiian package.”
“Let me ask [...]

A few years ago I heard about a very unique way to deal with telemarketing calls, and it came from an unknown comedian who was making a point of how to get these people off our backs.
He said that when a sales person calls, he tells them about Jesus so they won’t call back again. [...]

Dear friends,
This doesn’t happen very often but when it does I feel a little embarrassed and wonder what I did wrong…
All day Thursday I was in the office and had no opportunity to talk to anyone outside the church, but I still wanted to tell the Gospel to someone.
I had a class until 10pm [...]

Dear Friends,
I tend to take for granted that we are a Christian society and that most everyone has heard the Gospel. But every now and then I’m reawakened to the fact that we are actually a post-Christian society when I talk to a person like Travis…
It was last Tuesday evening and time was running out [...]

Hi Everyone,
It’s easy to take for granted that everyone who comes to church is a Christian, but sometimes they are just nice “church people”.
I’ve been taking papers to be typed to a very nice lady I’ll call “Nancy”. She’s been attending Hope Chapel for many months so I assumed that she knew [...]

Hi Everybody,
Telling the Gospel to people can be fun with the right crowd. I like to periodically offer the $1.00 challenge…
I was in Subway getting some sandwiches for my kids on Mother’s Day, when I noticed that their were no customers, so I asked the 3 service people behind the counter if they would [...]

Dear Faithful Friends,
Over the last few weeks I’ve taken my daughters to Veterans Park in the mornings so my wife can have a little alone time. They play and I spend some time in the Word.
Last Thursday morning there were a lot of distractions and I had trouble reading without interruptions [...]

Hi Everyone,

Periodically, possibly weekly, I will send you brief updates on my personal experiences in the field as I hand-out my “Passion -Tracts” and attempt to stick to my goal of witnessing once a week. I fell off my goal the last 3 weeks so please pray for me.