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Canada!
Dear Greetings!, praise the Lord for 7 fruitful days in Canada! SFOI is now a registered charity in Canada and this was my first trip to Canada after receiving the approval.
On Tuesday, November 15, I was in Toronto, Canada where our Canadian office is located to look around the city for ministry locations. You'll see the videos below.
Then on Wednesday departed for Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada to preach at the Grey Cup from Thursday - Sunday. You'll see videos below too.
Six of us, 2 Canadians and 4 Americans, preached together for 4 days. We stayed in the dorms at the Briercrest College and Seminary. Briercrest was an hour drive to and from downtown Regina providing the team with ample time to fellowship.
Then we would evangelize for about 6 - 7 hours. It was cold. Below 10 degrees the first day. The temperature inched up each day with the last day Sunday being in the high 20s. From my perspective the main victory in the trip was the connections we made with the Canadian evangelists.
Already, our host Michael Rutherford from Swift Current, Saskatchewan, has already searched out missions conference for us to have an exhibit, he's made connections at Briercrest and Millar Bible College, and is eager to work with me in Canada. Dale Malayko, the other Canadian, is a full-time evangelist in Edmonton. He attended the Super Bowl Outreach in Atlanta in 2019. But he's eager to work with us now too. He's joined us on the ministry's Monday night prayer call.
The next plan is to have exhibits at these Colleges and other Conferences and plan a large Grey Cup '23 outreach scheduled to be held in Hamilton, Ontario a suburb of Toronto Nov. 19, 2023.
This is what I work towards and for: organizing events where evangelists can be recruited and mobilized and this is what happened during my trip to Canada!
Praise the Lord Greetings! for His continued work in our midst!
Grace, mercy & peace,
Rev. Bill Adams
Chief Evangelist & Overseer
423-724-7500
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Index of items below:
- Canada and NFL London
- SFOI 1000
- Keep Your Finger in the Text
- SFOI Live
- SFOI Legal Defense Fund
- Evangelist Participation to date
- SFOI Event Reports
- Canada
- United Kingdom
- Donate
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Above videos:
Left: Tim Horton Field in Hamilton home of the Grey Cup '23.
Right: BMO Field in Toronto where the Grey Cup '22 Champions play.
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Above: Scotia Bank Arena in Toronto where the NBA Raptors and NHL Maple Leafs play.
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All of the Grey Cup videos are on this link.They are short so click this link to see what else is happened especially on game day: Grey Cup - YouTube
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Left: Larry preaching and Adam distributing tracts on game day at Mosaic Stadium.
Right: Local Regina evangelist Aaron preaching on game day at Mosaic Stadium.
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Left: View of Fan Fest.
Right: Larry preaching n Saturday at Mosaic Stadium.
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Left: Bill shows other corner of Mosaic Stadium on Saturday.
Right: Bill shows his ministry location at Mosaic Stadium on Friday.
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[If you haven't seen these yet - they will be removed for the next Weekly Report]
This are 4 more videos from the time in London from the evangelists with us. The videos are around 1 minute each.
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Left: Heath Pucel what is personal view about your time in London.
Right: Heath Pucel what is your best ministry day in London.
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Left: Michael Seethaler what I like about coming to London.
Right: Hannah McCreery what did you notice about your time in London.
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Testimonies
This section is for recent testimonies from evangelists participating in SFOI Events. These are a couple from NFL London:
Michael Seethaler
The London trip is a fantastic opportunity to be completely immersed in gospel preaching evangelism. The other members of the team will surround you and encourage you to dig deeper, and push harder to proclaim the Word to a city that is in spiritual darkness. The Lord may use to you in the salvation of others, and to encourage the local believers in the city, who may feel surrounded by the doctrines of demons. Not to mention, many thousands of people will hear your preaching at the sporting games. It’s a fantastic opportunity for any believer concerned for the great commission.
Dan Davis:
The London trip was a great experience. 9.1 Million souls in a dense City with a public transportation system that provides areas of concentrated commuter traffic, but, really you get the sense you could preach anywhere and it would be beneficial even the quiet areas. It was often the less busy spots where we had the most conversations. Handing out bible literature is hit or miss, the less affluent an area was, generally the more receptive the public were. England is not as lost a I had imagined, we met many believers but very few are willing to make a public spectacle of their faith. We did meet some who wanted to join us in the labor and some did join us. Jehovah's Witnesses are in a lot of the places we found ourselves.
Another great opportunity to bolster your faith was the Christian Heritage Tour both the British Museum portion (where there were archeological proofs of the accuracy and historicity of the bible) and the ground survey beginning at St. Paul's Cathedral, where the life of believers clashed against the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches of that day and died for the faith and also the impact Christians had on a lost culture because they remained faithful to Jesus and lived it out in their daily lives.
It is a vast multicultural experience, we had heard from a local evangelist that 300 languages are present in the UK.
We are called to make disciples of the Nations and the world is there.
Joe Toy:
If you are looking for an evangelistic mission trip that will stretch you spiritually and help you grow in faith, then join SFOI on one of it's outreaches to London. Recently, I joined ten other people for NFL London and it was ten days of intensive ministry from six to eight hours in the harvest fields of London. The days were filled with outreaches to sporting events, tourist destinations, and small town tube stops. It was an awesome opportunity to share the gospel with thousands of people from various nations, as London is home to many diverse ethnicities. It was also exciting to work side by side with UK believers and also hear from pastors as to how God is working in the London area. This trip will definitely change your life as it stirs your heart to walk closer to the Lord and rekindle in your heart a passion for lost souls. I have been to London four times and can not wait to go back.
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SFOI 1000 Football Program
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Chairman Alex Burt weekly report from Friday Nov. 25 and 18. |
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Below is the list of games from last weekend and into this weekend. |
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Keep Your Finger in the Text |
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Top left: Bill's weekly update 11/22
Top right: Bill's weekly update 11/15
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Current cases:
Nate is researching Free Speech for Atlanta at the GWCC and in Charlotte downtown and at the Bank of America Stadium.
Indianapolis, IN - this is from interference from the authorities at the Indianapolis Convention Center.
Louisville, KY - Follow up from Kentucky Derby. This could go to court.
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Evangelist Participation
Evangelist participation to date: this will be where you can keep track of the numbers of evangelists participating with SFOI during 2022.
Evangelists: individual goal 500
Total to date: 478 [243 individuals]
Appearances Individuals
Bowl Games: 5
College Football Championship: 6
Gasparilla Festival: 2
Pro Bowl: 3
Super Bowl Outreach: 73
NBA All-Star: 7
St. Pete Grand Prix: 11
March Madness: 7
Final Four: 10
NFL Draft: 9
Kentucky Derby:29
Riverbend Festival: 10
Bonnaroo Festival: 12
GWP: 12
World Games: 11
Commonwealth Games: 8
Gospel Invasion Myrtle Beach: 12
Music City Grand Prix: 21
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[There are 2 numbers used here: The number of individual evangelists who participate with SFOI and the number of appearances each evangelist make.
For instance there could be 100 individuals who participate in a year and 50 of them participate twice. That would mean there are 100 evangelists making 150 appearances.
The goal is to give you view from the fans perspective how many evangelists they see at a given event or team's home games].
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Campus Ministry
School is in session and as soon as possible my plan is to go consistently to Univ. of Tennessee and maybe Univ. of Tenn. Chattanooga.
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Gospel Invasions
Gospel Invasions are outreaches held at a non sporting event and hosted by another evangelist. Organizing outreaches for other evangelists and potentially mission groups is a goal for SFOI in order to facilitate Gospel missions work.
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Social Media
The numbers are down for the week. Lord willing you'll see a significant increase in the next as I am back here at the office pushing for more evangelists which means more traffic.
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Past Events
(Events listed below have taken place in 2022)
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SBO '22 Los Angeles, CA - 73 evangelists
Facebook:
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Final Four: April 1- 5, New Orleans, LA. 10 evangelists.
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NFL Draft: April 28 - 30, Las Vegas, NV. 9 evangelists.
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Bill Adams Preaching at Riverbend as Tim Ferguson offers Gospel tracts to people. #riverbend #sfoi
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Click image above to watch video.
Stirling Long - Brother Tim Ferguson Open Air Preaching at Bonnaroo Music Festival. Preaching the Gospel. “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God; God presented him to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so that he would be just and justify the one who has faith in Jesus.” Romans 3:23, 26 CSB
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Darrel Davis - What a blessing to fellowship with these brothers and fellow evangelists. I enjoyed the GWP conference and thank the Lord for all I learned last week. Now is the time to put the hand to the plow and don't look back.
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For details of the Annual GWP Fellowship Conference visit: GWP.
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Mike Stockwell is with Anne Marie Corbett at Protective Stadium, Birmingham, AL. The last day of 11 days here at the World Games in Birmingham, Alabama Don "Stonewall" Karns preaching to the crowds for the closing ceremony now.
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Ministry Report - Warren & Darlene |
Starting on August 1st we began taking notes on the people we talked to so we could remember them and how to pray for them. We didn't write down brief interactions only those we spoke to for a while. Many gospel tracts were also given out to people we didn't talk to. >>>Read more
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Canada
Praise the Lord! SFOI has received a Charity status from Canada! This means tax deductible contributions would be accepted.
SFOI now has a bank account opened at Royal Bank of Canada is able to receive payments for events on the main Canadian page: www.sfoi.ca
The next scheduled event is the Grey Cup November 16 - 20 in Regina, Saskatchewan: Grey Cup.
SFOI has three trustees:
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Praise the Lord Canada has been opened as of Sept. 30th! Presently 3 of us are scheduled to preach at the Grey Cup in Regina. Click banner for details. |
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United Kingdom
The next events are Lord willing:
SFOI has three Trustees:
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