EPIC Evangelical Outreach Underway At Kansas City World Cup

Unreported by most local media . . . 

The Kansas City World Cup is the epicenter of historic Christian evangelical effort to save souls and to recruit new donors disciples like the event hasn't seen in years in countries with more strict rules on religious speech. 

Here's a glimpse . . . 

He wants to see a million gospel conversations in Kansas City during the World Cup. It’s ambitious, he admitted, but “we’re embracing the hand who can do abundantly more.”

Splitting into groups of between five and ten people, his volunteers take shifts from about 2 p.m. to midnight, prioritizing high-traffic areas. This includes streets around the Chiefs’ Arrowhead Stadium, temporarily renamed Kansas City Stadium for FIFA purposes; the sprawling open-air Fan Festival staged throughout the National World War I Museum and Memorial; and bus terminals flooded with visitors from around the world.

These setups are reserved mostly for “tried-and-true cold-turkey evangelism,” Wilson said. Volunteers pull from an inventory of 10,000 gospel tracts, which feature teachings from Yellow Card Initiative, a ministry that uses soccer terminology and literal yellow cards—like the player warnings issued by referees—to provoke spiritual conversations. You can ignore the card, the campaign teaches, or “you can turn to Jesus, who took the red card for you.”

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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