March 2025 Overview

This month, Nick and I had the opportunity to share about evangelism with multiple different churches and groups. We had the pleasure of joining the Personal Evangelism Seminar teaching team at Barclay College, sharing at Hutchinson Friends Church, sharing at East Whittier Friends Church, and are preparing for future training/workshops as people desire to become more equipped to imitate Jesus in witnessing. These trainings are designed to demonstrate and strengthen your ability to engage with others through different practical and effective tools. We have used all of these tools in our ministry and have found them to be very effective in considerate and gentle evangelism. We are currently planning workshops for the Friends Church Fullerton community as well as other people and groups interested in growing in these practices. 

Nick and I have seen God at work in so many ways this month whether it be a formal teaching setting, Bible dialogue, disciple-making community (DMC), CSUF whiteboard evangelism, or bonus conversations that come unexpectedly! Here are a few highlights from the above listed categories, but it is by no means an exhaustive list! 

➢ Nick and I have had many Bible-dialogues this month and we’re excited to see the ways that they are engaging all sorts of people with the Bible! As we engage with people leaving cults, confused by false prophets, sorting out unbiblical theologies, and those hurt by the malformed church, we see that a sober investigation of Jesus as described in the gospel accounts is one of the best ways to make healthy progress. I have realized that most people we encounter and converse with have an improper perception of who Jesus is and what He taught. It’s a terrible shame for someone to reject Christ because of a misperception of who He is, and I’m almost equally concerned for the many who accept a false perception of Christ that contradicts the life and teaching of Jesus. In our Bible-dialogues, we work to uproot the false perceptions of Jesus and Christianity by examining and discussing what is displayed in the ancient gospel records! 

➢ One unexpected conversation, that led to further Bible-dialogues, happened when we were meeting someone in public for lunch and were approached by a young man who overheard our conversation. He shared that he had come to believe in Jesus after seeing Him in a dream, but was looking to learn more about the Bible and discipleship. We’ve met with this young man multiple times since for Bible-dialogues and have addressed other teachings that he has heard from a false prophet on YouTube. While this YouTuber has caused a lot of confusion for him, dialogues over the gospel records have appeared to address many of these false ideas for us. We are planning to involve him in a DMC with some CSUF students who just got out of one of the more intense cults on campus. 

➢ These students, who left the Fellowship cult at CSUF, have left this group and decided to become involved with Nick and I through Bible-dialogues and a new DMC. We learned about one young man who left the Fellowship cult and were amazed at the way God removed him after four months of involvement. He has a wonderful heart for evangelism, as many people caught by cults do, and he has joined us with our whiteboard when we are on campus. We are now praying for, and miraculously seeing, more people leave this destructive cult and pursue Jesus! As can be expected, the Fellowship cult leaders are not pleased to see their previous members talking with Nick and I, but we are excited to hear about and pray for the freedom of more cult members! 

There are so many more things that I could say about this past month of ministry, but this is a brief insight into what we’ve been doing, and I hope that it blesses you!