“It was such a blessing to see God work through the ministry that S.O.S provided! We shared the gospel with 181 people in only 13 hours…The Lord saved 13 of those people….We will continue to use this ministry in the future! Thank you so much!”
A Pastor writes
July 23, 2009KOA Campground owner saved
July 21, 2009Tom & Carolyn Curtis while traveling through NC stopped for the night at a KOA campground. In the morning Tom decided to go and tell the owner Chris about the 3 Things God Can Not Do. She had never heard about the things God can’t do so was interested. When Tom asked her if she was 50, 75 or 100% sure if she would go to heaven, she did not know. “You can Know” Tom told her and led her to the Lord. What a blessing that no matter where we are we have opportunity to lead people to Christ.
Oregon Fest
July 2, 2009Don & Shirley Riegel trained several workers for the Oregon Festival and that group saw 16 saved in just a few hours. What a wonderful harvest of souls.
Washboard Festival
July 2, 2009Ivan and Dorinda Cardwell traveled to Ohio in June where approximately 25 people were trained to win souls to Christ. Many said it was the first time they ever had the boldness to witness. 100 people were saved at the festival and the soul winners were Praising the Lord.
Words of Support
July 2, 2009Dear Friends, Always good to hear about your very effective ministry approach. Trust everything going well as your serve the Master. Blessings
I thank you for your ministry where the Lord uses you in a powerful way in bringing children and others to know Jesus.
Double Blessing of Sharing – A Testimonial
December 14, 2008Don Riegel sent in this testimonial he received from the pastor of the Wyandotte church event in July.
“many people in our church family found SOS’s evangelism training very user-friendly and practical! For example, after watching Don lead her eleven year old niece to the Lord, one gal, although in her late 40’s, and still unable to read, miraculously, with the help of a friend, managed not only to comprehend all the SOS materials but better still, go on to use what she learned to share the message of salvation. Subsequently, she signed up for a course in English and is now well on her way to learning how to read. Recently, when asked what her take away was from SOS ministries, she remarked, `thanks to SOS ministries my spiritual life has developed more this past year [2008] than the last twenty combined!’
Trip to S.E. Ohio……….8/21/08 – 9/2/08
October 1, 2008by Ivan and Dorinda Cardwell
God is really working in S.E. Ohio, and we were Blessed to join Him there for a couple of weeks in June and August of 2008.
The weeks in June were spent mostly just trying to establish contacts with churches, but we did make a couple of presentations and also set up at our Family Reunion……1 teenager was led to the Lord….the first soul saved at the reunion in 23 years!! PTL!
We went back in August to make further contacts…..the following is the report of this trip:
8/24 Attended Christ Community Church in Athens…..SS. and worship….spoke with Pastor about ministry.
8/24 Evening worship at small mission church in The Plains…..New young Pastor, Tim Coleman….made quick presentation after service to about 12….He was excited……
SOS to return to do training for future event.
8/25 Met with Missionary from Scioto Valley, Bill Wellman. He had invited several area Pastors…….one, Craig Brumbaugh attended from small country church in Hamden, OH……Gave presentation of “The Three Things God Cannot Do”, Both were excited. Craig requested training for his church…….set up for Oct.8……Don and Shirley Riegel agreed to travel down to S.E. Ohio to do the training at this church. Bill Wellman had lots of ideas where we could use SOS. He also said he would like make more contacts for SOS.
8/25 pm Met with Retired, former Scioto Valley Missionary, Cliff Coleman……gave him presentation and showed DVD. Very excited.
8/26 7:00pm Safe Harbor Church…….Pastor Herman and Donald Shupe…… training for Bean Dinner Event to be held Oct. 4. They will train other workers from their church….. Riegels to travel down and oversee the Event.
8/27 1:00pm Appointment with Pastor Cliff Curry at Good News Baptist Church, Galipolis, OH. He had invited several others to attend. We showed DVD and made presentation. They were excited about “The Three Things God Cannot Do” and wanted to use is at a scheduled Fall Event they had coming up on September 20th. We trained three. Don and Shirley agreed to come down and help with the Event. Pastor Cliff said that the three of them would practice several more times and gradually invite others to join them so they would have a nice group to work the Event with Don and Shirley…….PT
8/31 Attended morning SS and Worship at Rolling Hills Church, Athens. Pastor invited us to make presentation after service. About 12 people stayed……Will set up training at later date.
8/31 pm. Back to The Plains to present and train about 12 at the little Baptist Mission…..The church will hold an Event on Oct. 4th in the morning…….Don and Shirley have agreed to help with this Event before going in the evening to help with the Bean Dinner at Safe Harbor Church.
Thank you for your prayers and support of these churches and our ministry. Please keep Don and Shirley Riegel in prayer as they prepare for and travel two times to S.E. Ohio to help these little churches with training and Events.
In His Service,……..Ivan and Dorinda Cardwell.
Jimmy Dean Days – Fairmount Indiana
September 30, 2008Tom and Carolyn Curtis trained a church this past week, and lead them in serving in the Lord’s harvest in Fairmont Indiana this past weekend. The Jimmy Dean Days is an annual event in this Indiana community. The Curtis’ and other church workers witness 139 decisions for Christ. These new Christians were from 32 different cities and 3 States. In my conversation with Tom today, he shared that the harvest could have been as high as 400 if there had been more workers. I have to admit, I was so amazed at the different stories Tom was sharing today, I was not able to get more details on paper. However, I pray he and Carolyn will post here sometime soon, and share more. PTL! The numbers are of course secondary to the actual lives and stories witnessed by those saved at the event. Glory Glory to the Lord Jesus Christ!
The Power of Church-Yard Evangelism
September 9, 2008“You’ve got to be kidding; church yard evangelism?!” I have to admit, this kind of snook-up on me. BAM! I was listening to Tom Curtis this past Sunday as he was giving a guest sermon focused on “prayer”. Not that prayer has a lot to do with church yard evangelism… ….well, you be the judge, read-on.
First, let’s make sure we’re all on the same page, and talking about the same thing.
Church-yard evangelism is one of the most powerful growth vehicles for any church, if done right. The problem is, most could be a great deal more effective than they are; think about any of these activities you have been involved in over the years at any church you have visited. Here is a list of activities / events commonly sponsored, or supported by churches, either near, or on their church property:
- Yard sales
- BBQ
- Car Shows
- Events for Children (games, rides, etc…)
- Fall Festival
- Fish Fry
There are many more different kinds of activities (tell us about yours) that could be listed. These events usually reflect the social fabric and interest of the sponsoring, or participating church. Many times these are planned fund raisers. However, the goals also typically evolve around introducing new people to the church through some form of interaction, with the hope of leading others into a relationship with Jesus Christ. Additional benefits include helping introduce existing Christians, new to the area, to your church; help them find a new church home. Other ancillary benefits include fellowship among participating church members , and exposure for the church in other indirect ways. Most would agree, if others accept Christ (souls saved) as their personal savior “at the event”, then this would be like having your cake, and eating it too… … a win-win-win. Praise the Lord! Any kind of church-yard evangelism can always be about seeing souls saved. In fact, why plan one if that’s not included?
SOS Events is about showing others how they can come to expect a harvest of souls at almost any event. Tom Curtis often reminds me (and I am thankful) that it’s not him and his wife Carolyn that save souls, but it’s faith in action based on their surrender to a relationship that allows Him to do His will. Write to info@sosevents.org, if you would like more information, or help with your event.
From The Heart
August 26, 2008The month of June and July have been very successful for Carolyn and me as we have traveled through many states setting up new events and updating some of our supporting churches. We went to 2 churches in North Florida and renewed friendships as well as made some new contacts. Three men were saved in a gas station as we were pumping gas. On to the Atlanta area where we had a lot of motor home problems. Flat tires, generator that would not work and so it took several days to make all the repairs. As we sat in repair shops we never missed an opportunity to tell whoever would listen the “3 things God Can Not Do.” As we lost several days because of the problems we had to move on quickly.
In PA we prearranged to meet Pastor Martens, who met us and gave us a new print machine that we now can use to design many new displays for soul winning. He personally drove from NJ to make sure we got this wonderful machine. Thank you.
On to OH were we had opportunity to be on the radio program “Daybreak” at WPOS. Jake really promoted SOS and we are thankful for the opportunity.
We stopped at a Wal-mart and a man saw our car which has our phone # on it. He called, brought his 3 adult children into the motor home and they were gloriously saved.
In Indiana we had the privilege of going downtown Marion where in about 3 hours 25 were saved. Several of the Christians that came to help had never led a soul to Christ. The next day I witnessed to an 83 year old man who came to Christ. He thought he was going to Heaven because his wife was there and prayed for him. More later…
Tom Curtis
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