Talladega Update
Beloved Prayer Warriors,
Thank you for praying for the ministry in Talladega, Alabama.
I am back home in Rogers, Arkansas; I left the 24th of March and returned the 12th of April.
The location for the tent was nice; it was adjacent to the City Hall and Fire Station.
Talladega Police Station
Therefore, there was no problem from hecklers or vandals; in fact, it was a little too quite. Jim Bullard, my friend and brother in Christ Jesus, lives in Talladega and he was a great help to me.
my friend and brother in Jesus Christ, Jim Bullard
Also his nephew Bob helped us set up the tent and take it down.
The Tent
I had some great times in prayer and enjoyed interceding for the city.
God met us there
Jim and I went out preaching daily from house to house, and at the shopping markets we gave out a lot of gospel tracts that were received very well. Jim has some health issues and wasn’t able to continue in the evangelism. I found that a lot of people like to come out and sit on their porches, so I would drive around until I found an area where quite a few were out and then I would park and visit them on their porches. I found this to be a good way to talk to a good number of people. Eternity will tell us just how effective it was, but I do know a lot of people did hear the gospel and were under great conviction. I was quite surprised at the conduct of the people in the heart of the bible belt. They all have a form of godliness and seem to receive you very well and volunteer to come to the tent meetings even before you invite them. I found with almost no exception they are all liars, because they would never come. There were a few exceptions and these were obviously some truly born again believers.
some bothers and sisters i met
The city is full of churches but has a very high crime rate with a huge drug problem and a large police force. I preached to several who had just come out of prison; one of them was in for selling drugs. I told him he was fortunate that he hadn’t died and gone to hell because many of the people he had sold drugs to would be there to add to his torment. He seemed to acknowledge that it was true and indicated he wanted to repent. He agreed to come to the tent and give his life to Christ but he didn’t show up.
After about two weeks of preaching and seeing very little turn out, I began to wonder if the Lord wanted me to move on or not. I decided to spend some time in prayer and seek the will of God concerning that. I prayed for about ten minutes and a car pulled up to the tent. This Brother in Christ named Jimmy Dean said he was driving by and the Lord told him to come back and to encourage me to stay on.
He also had been a drug dealer but after being shot twice he repented and seemed to have a strong testimony. Our father confirmed to me to stay until the allotted time was up.
I thank all of you for holding this ministry up in prayer and I know it has not been in vain.
I will be informing you before long where the next event will take place and when.
Lord bless,
James and Francille Lucas