God Answered Our Prayer! Someone Got Saved!

2013 May 28 (34)

Exhortation

6:30PM, Markville Mall, Testify Tuesday. Be there or be praying. Please? We NEED your prayers.

I’d like all you Christians reading this to be praying for these two things:
1. At least one more team member (anyone is welcome to join us)
2. At least one person come to saving faith and discipled

This is the last Tuesday for May. God has already answered the first item. Now we are begging Him for the second. Know that when it happens, it will not be by coincidence or the power of man, but because my God is real and my God is powerful. Glory to my God, my Lord and savior Jesus Christ!

Pray with me, my family at Harvest Bible Chapel York Region and my family from afar.
-Tony

Testimony

God answers prayer! Both items have been answered! Someone trusted Christ as Lord and savior tonight!!!

Remember how for the month of May we asked God for two things, a team member and a saved person? Got gave us many new team members. Shout out to Ryan and Melinda, who encouraged Mike, Ben, and myself greatly. God also saved someone tonight! I ran into K, whom God brought to me. As I explained everything, he told me many times how "If you put it this way, it makes so much sense." I really focused on the fear of the Lord as I talked about the reality of death and the harshness of Hell. At one time, he told me, "Now you're just scaring me."

Hell is scary! But praise the Holy Spirit for opening his eyes to see everything so clearly for the first time and the desperate need for Christ to be saved. He kept saying, "My mind is just blown!" After we prayed together right there against the railing on the second story of Markville Mall, he said he felt this burden lifted off. Praise God!

Please, please keep praying for K. He got my contact information and said he'll be coming to church as well as promising me he'll read the gospel of John. I told him how real Satan is. So please, pray that Satan won't snatch him away, scorching him with the sun or choking him with the thorns (Matt 13:6-7). Pray that I can disciple him. It's no coincidence that we focused so much on prayer this month. Prayer IS where everything happens!

I'm reminded of all the fasting and praying we've been doing. You there, do you see this? Do you see God answering prayer? Did I not say that my God is real and powerful and mighty to save? Did I not say that He hears our cries? Did I not say that this WILL happen and that when it does, you should glorify God?

Well, this did happen! God did increase our team. God did save someone in the month of May, just as we prayed. Do you still doubt the faithfulness of God? Doubt no more Christian. Doubt no more atheist. My God IS real and very powerful. So glorify God! It's all Him! Believe in Him, and you WILL be saved (Acts 16:31).

-Tony

PS. Harvest Bible Chapel York Region, look forward to meeting a new brother this weekend. :)
PPS. Check out http://testifytuesday.blogspot.ca/, especially the month of May, for more testimonies.

Souls (11) {Total: 264}

E, G (E's gf, pastor's kid);
K;
J;
J;
K;
D;
M, T;
D;
K (salvation)

Team (5)

Tony; Ben, Melinda; Mike, Ryan

He Asked All the Right Questions!

2013 May 21 (33)

Exhortation

It is Testify Tuesday. That means at 6:30PM, a bunch of us will be sharing the gospel at Markville Mall.

I’d like all you Christians reading this to be praying for these two things:
1. At least one more team member (anyone is welcome to join us)
2. At least one person come to saving faith and discipled

We are praying for God to do something amazing this month of May. It’s going to happen. So watch, and pray. Pray to Christ in you, the hope of glory (Col 1:27). Pray that people won’t just have excellent days, but excellent eternities.

Seminarian attending Harvest Bible Chapel York Region,
-Tony

Testimony

You want to read this! We have an amazing testimony tonight sharing the gospel at the mall!

We approached this high school kid Mike to ask him what he thought the worst suffering he can imagine is. He mentioned depression, physical pain, and death. This led perfectly into a definition of Hell. After spending a few more minutes elaborating on Hell and assuring him of his status as a sinner with no hope, Melinda came in and shared about the hope in Jesus Christ, about justification by grace through faith (Eph 2:8). It was a perfect tag team's one-two punch!

Initially he seemed put off, but as we talked more, he became more and more engaged. When asked if he thought this was interesting, he said straightforwardly that he'd have left if it wasn't. He then asked really good questions like what the cross meant and who Jesus was, to which we gave a brief history lesson. He also asked how we came to be Christian, to which I shared my personal testimony. He even asked what it meant to pray and how we know God is talking to us! He asked many more pertinent questions, those that only genuinely interested people ask.

Near the end, he asked whether sufferings will cease once we believe, to which we shared the cost of discipleship, essentially telling him that even if he believed, life might even get harder as persecution comes. But this aroma of Christ was definitely a fragrance of life to him (cf. 2 Cor 2:15-16). It's so obvious that the Holy Spirit was working in him, tugging him to give his life to Christ.

We asked what was stopping him from entering into this saving relationship with God, to which he said "Nothing"! Though he wasn't comfortable praying with us then, he has our number and seems interested in either youth group or meeting up to discuss further. Pray for him to call me.

Christian, don't stop believing that God can use you in any encounter if you put yourself out there. Don't stop praying for our new friend to be saved, as he is so ready! Don't stop sharing the gospel for the harvest is oh so plentiful (Matt 9:37)!

-Tony, Ben, Mike, Melinda

Souls (6) {Total: 253}

Older couple;
E;
M;
C;
M

Team (4)

Tony, Melinda; Ben, Mike

First On the Spot Convert!

2013 March 12 (23)

Exhortation

Testify Tuesday is here again. Join us in person or in prayer. We'll be at Markville Mall from 6PM to 7:30PM sharing the gospel. Why you ask? Well...

Rom 7:24 says, "Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?" I am wretched. I try to do good things but I fail horribly so often. Those of you at Harvest Bible Chapel York Region know more deeply what this is like. There is nothing good in my body. But yet God has put His Spirit in me and Christ has saved me by His blood. Me! A wretched man! Obviously God sees something in me that even I have trouble seeing, or more likely He just loves me that much. I will not disappoint Him.

This is why I share the gospel. And this is how we do it: we use the law to reveal sin, then we point them to Christ. Then the Father won't see our wretchedness anymore! Instead He'll see Christ, as will we.

Testimony

God always does great things for those doing His will. Tonight: We got to witness SALVATION!!!

There were these two teenage boys eating Taco Bell. Turns out one of them is a Christian. Jackson, Dorothy, and I sat down with them and started sharing the gospel, going through their sinful state in full detail. When we asked the non-Christian Ryan where he'd go if he died, he responded with a solemn look, "I'll probably go to Hell."

Then we shared what Jesus died for and how we can receive this gift. He plainly said that he wanted it! We asked, "So you're saying you want to be Christian?" He said yes! We then spent the next 10 minutes trying to scare him away. We shared how he has to repent and stop doing some things, how following Jesus sometimes mean suffering, and how personally, it led to rejection within my own family.

We asked if, even after understanding the costs, he still wanted to follow Christ. When he still said yes, we were ecstatic (but trying hard to hide it). We prayed with him right there in the food court for him to enter into this new saving relationship with God! We made sure to say after that he will know the reality of what he did today by the fruit he sees 5 years down the road.

I want to rejoice, I want to scream that we now have a new brother in Christ. And I can! And I'm happy! But ultimately, like every follower of Christ, we will know them by their fruit. That's why I pray that God will cause him to bear fruit, that he'll be discipled into a man of God and not choked by the thorns of this world. Pray for him.

Despite all that, I'm still incredibly blessed to have been a part of this. You can be a part of this too! All you have to do is put yourself out there, God will do the rest. For those who prayed, you were a part of this! God bless you! There are few joys greater than knowing you were part of God's plan to bring someone to salvation. So rejoice with me church, again I say, rejoice!

PS. Mike and Hope Linda talked to this group of 12 teenagers. It looked intense. Next step for them: open air.

Souls (19) {Total: 137}

S, A (salvation later through Kevin), S;
Group of 12 teens;
M;
T;
R, D (R believed, D was Christian)

Team (5)

Tony, Jackson, Dorothy; Mike, Linda

And then He Comes to Church!?

2013 March 5 (22)

Exhortation

On this Testify Tuesday, we will only be evangelizing at Markville Mall from 6:00PM to 6:45PM so that we can pray with our church family at 7PM. It's gonna be short and sweet tonight.

Those at Harvest Bible Chapel York Region heard from Rom 7. Rom 7:4 says that we have died to the law "in order that we may bear fruit for God." Let's not go out because the law demands, since it doesn't. Let's go out because we want to bear fruit for He who died for us! So let's bear fruit brothers and sisters, a hundred or even a thousand times more!

Grow in holiness, pray, evangelize, whatever you do, don't stop bearing fruit.

Testimony

‎Harvest Bible Chapel York Region: On Tuesday, a couple of us went out to Markville to share our faith. We got into a couple interesting conversations. I spoke to a young man named Mikael. He invited me to take a seat, since I was standing when I started talking to him, which is a rare thing. Most people are just waiting for you to leave! It turned out that he was a very spiritual guy and interested in learning more about the gospel and what Christ had done for us. Truth be told, he was also interested in many other religions, but he said that our discussion cleared up some misconceptions about Christianity that he had. After realizing I was late for church wide prayer, I told him that I had to leave. He expressed interest in possibly talking about these things again so I gave him a Harvest Bible Chapel card and put my number on it since I didn't have any paper. As soon as he saw the card he exclaimed that he knew Curtis. He also told me that he was planning on attending the new believers classes that started just recently. It turns out that Curtis had previously shared the good news with him. I would not pronounce him a Christian, but I feel that God is drawing Him unto Himself. I always wonder if the people that I share the gospel with ever hear it again, or if they ever surrender their lives to Christ. Remember, it's not anything that we do that saves people, but like Paul said in 1 Corinthians "...God gave the increase"!

Souls (4) {Total: 118}

D;
M (knows Curtis, later goes to new believer’s class);
K, woman

Team (5)

Mike, Kevin; Ben, Tony, Curtis

A Girl who Cried

2013 January 29 (17)

Exhortation

Evangelism on Testify Tuesday! 6PM at Markville Mall. Come, or pray. Please?

Those of you at Harvest Bible Chapel York Region heard this Sunday from Romans. Rom 5:8, a verse I often use in evangelism says, "but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." God's love has been poured into our hearts (v5), it has been lavished on us. If you're a Christian, you know what this feels like. You know the depths of your sin and thus the magnitude of His love. When we were still sinners, enemies of God (v10), Christ died for us, for you, for me!

You know that you're saved, good. But are you content to let other sinners sink into Hell without ever feeling this love? Are you happy to just let your neighbors die and face the wrath of God? Are you okay with being polite with your friends all the way to the gates of Hell? To never warn them? To never tell of God's love, just waiting for them if they will trust Christ!? Christian, this cannot be right! Preach the gospel! Speak of Christ! I'm not doing it because I have to. I'm doing it because His love compels me to (2 Cor 5:14)! Let it control you too!

Testimony

Testimony time! God encountered a girl tonight in Spirit and in power!

Tonight, there was this one girl who had gone through so much bad stuff at her old church that she didn't consider herself a "Christian" anymore, though she read the Bible and prayed every day. She shared how she had wanted to walk away from God back in October but someone, through God, told her to hold on for something in the future. Today, she had an especially bad day (details withheld) and wasn't sure what to hold onto anymore. Her boss let her off work early (for no reason) and that's when she met us.

We usually don't approach girls but I had just seen her in my prayers. She asked us why we are talking to her; I told her plainly that God had sent us. God worked powerfully in her as we kept sharing about what fellowship is and about Christ's church. She had prayed for God to show up that day and we were the answer to that prayer! As we kept talking and Ben shared his heart about true church and true Christianity, she began to cry. After a while she just burst into tears, unable to hold in all the emotions anymore.

She met God that night in a very real and powerful way. She was lost and honestly seeking direction, God found her and is bringing her back to Himself! Pray that God won't let her go. Pray that He won't let any of us go...

Tonight, we were blessed with so much prayer from so many people. That by itself is reason enough to praise God. When Ben Sampson and I were praying, we begged God to show His power and to give us fruit. God did. Our God is faithful. Praise His awesome name!

Souls (5) {Total: 82}

Asian young couple;
Mentor & mentee (big brother program);
G (cried)

Team (2)

Tony, Ben

Salvation in the House!

2013 January 2 (13)

Exhortation

Happy new year! Let's kick off 2013 with evangelism tonight at Markville Mall at 6PM. Message me if you are coming.

Some of you heard at Harvest Bible Chapel York Region this Sunday about the cost of discipleship. When Jesus tells us to follow Him, it is not easy, it requires work. Luke 9:60 reads, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God." I think this is pretty clear. Have you left everything behind or are you still carrying on to something? Are you counting the costs? Are you really following Jesus? If you are, do what He says! Go and proclaim the kingdom of God! Go share the gospel!

Share it with your family, tell it to your friends, talk about it with your coworkers, and if none of those work out, come out to the mall with us! But don't just do nothing. Above all, pray. Your prayers do more than any other action can accomplish. Pray for me too, I covet those prayers. If you are Christian, may we say to Jesus truthfully, "I will follow you wherever you go" and do it.

Testimony

Testimony time! Evangelism was great tonight. Here it is in summary form:

1. This Chinese guy who's never heard the gospel listened to everything I said. When I got to the part where I said Jesus was the only way anyone could get to God in Heaven and that there's absolutely no other way, he was so taken back that he literally fell backwards. He regained his balance right after. See, he understood it and responded better to the gospel than most: in awe.

2. This Tamil guy Raghulan was another good conversation. Mike and I shared the gospel with him very clearly, using the courtroom analogy too. This was the first time that we encountered someone at Markville who agreed so much with what we said. He completely understood that he was a sinner. He knew that he could not get to Heaven by his own works. He agreed and believed so much that for a moment it seemed like he already knew it. At the end, we told him how He could go before Christ any time he wanted. We also told him about the cost of discipleship, how it's not going to be easy at all, but that it will be worth it. He asked for our numbers after without us asking! Pray that God will convict Raghulan to repent tonight!

3. Ask Josiah about this when you see him. We also encountered someone whom God is already working in, saving his brother, having a Christian wife, etc. He said "Jesus is following me". And he even said "It's like Jesus is coming to me through you". This is incredible! That is exactly what we are doing, bringing Jesus to these people. Oh that more people would encounter God through us. Come Lord Jesus come!

My brothers and sisters in Christ, join us in proclaiming Jesus to these people. Join us in fixing our eyes on eternity. Join us in partnering with God in the salvation of the lost. Join us in unceasing prayer for the world. Join us in this great work of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. THIS is the Christian life, THIS is life abundant!

PS. It was only supposed to be one paragraph... I tried keeping it short, sorry, I failed.

More Testimony

Salvation! Raghulan prayed to trust Christ as Lord and savior! Read more in above blog link.

Souls (5) {Total: 60}

D;
R(salvation);
A, K (Christian wife, non-Christian husband);
Chinese guy

Team (3)

Tony, Mike; Josiah

Getting on Our Knees in the Mall

2012 December 4 (9)

Exhortation

Witness Wednesday is now happening on Tuesdays! I know, we need a new name now. But no matter, come join us at 6PM at Markville Mall for some gospel sharing.

Those of you at Harvest Bible Chapel York Region heard this Sunday from Rom 3:23-24 "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith."

Faith family, the Christmas season is upon us, where Christ is preached all over the radio. Don't waste this opportunity! Share this gift of grace. Share about the blood that was shed. Share what Christmas is all about! I have some surveys that'll make sharing "easy" too. Get in touch with me and I can send you PDF's. Join me in prayer as we bring Christ back to Christmas, starting tonight at Markville Mall.

Testimony

Awesome testimonies tonight! For starters, we have a new person joining the team of evangelists. Ben Sampson joined Mike Fenty and myself at Markville. It's great to see how God is growing the team, and from different churches too. This is unity in the body! In the past three weeks, we've tripled our numbers! Hah! Praise God!

We talked to quite a number of people tonight, one group being four teenagers going to a catholic school. We opened up by asking them about Christmas and it naturally led to who Christ was. All of them heard the gospel. One of them in particular (Anton) was so scared of dying and of Hell too that he'd sometimes lie in bed just thinking about it. He said things like "If I died now I'd probably go to Hell. Of course I'm scared." and "How do you know it is real?" You could see God pulling at him. We shared about our absolute confidence in Christ and how we don't have to be afraid anymore. He knows, but he's just not quite there. Pray that God will grow the seeds planted.

And after two hours, we thought we were done so we prayed in the mall as we usually do. After we were done, we noticed how this lady was sitting beside us. In fact, there were quite a number of people there near us. We felt prompted to share the gospel with her, and as we started she said how she was a Christian and how she's so encouraged by what we're doing. After some more talking and brief sharing of her story, she said how she wants to come to the church I go to (Harvest Bible Chapel York Region). In fact, I've never met someone so eager to come to church! We got her number and some of you might even meet her on Sunday!

Brothers and sisters in Christ, share the gospel with someone this week! Don't waste this Christmas season. God has brought you into their life for this very reason! So that they can have what you have: a relationship with God.

Souls (12) {Total: 32}

L;
C, A, S, A (Catholic kids);
White family;
R, A, N, J (family that later came to church)

Team (3)

Tony, Mike, Ben