EVANGELISTIC OUTREACH CRUSADE AT AN INDUSTRIAL PLANT!

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Published: Tuesday, 20 July 2010 14:12

Industrial Electroplating Company encompasses almost an entire city block in Gastonia, North Carolina. The company employs about 70 people, including office personal, truckers, painters, and a number of men doing some pretty hard work in the sweltering heat of the summer! It has been my tremendous privilege, on a number of occasions, to preach evangelistic crusades at the PLANT, during working hours! That’s right friends! This plant is owned and operated by one of the godliest families that I have met in my life. Walter Prescott, the CEO of this company, is a man of God that is absolutely “in tune” with the compassion of Jesus for sinners and the call of Jesus to be “on mission with Him”, in reaching this lost and dying world with the Gospel. Bro. Walter, along with his precious wife, Amelia, like their Lord and Savior, “receives sinners and eats with them”!

Every afternoon at the close of the first shift and the beginning of the 2nd shift, an announcement was made over the p.a. system, inviting all of the employees into the ‘break room’, for an hour of “gospel preaching and singing”. They are told that attendance is voluntary. The company even keeps them on the clock, during the time of the service.

Friends, it is an absolute joy to stand before this packed room of needy souls and proclaim the “bad news of our terrible problem” before a Holy God; and the “good news of God’s tremendous provision” in the Person and Work of His Son! After three days of evangelistic preaching and witnessing on the grounds of the plant, Walter and his family had a “cook out” for all of the employees and their families. The conference room was filled with eternal souls that heard the gospel message. Walter shares about this precious opportunity:

I wanted to follow up on your recent visit to our industrial plant. Ed, thank you for coming to our business to preach the gospel and to witness to our employees, God has blessed that visit in a wonderful way. We felt the HOLY SPIRIT going out, as you preached your heart out, through God’s Word. Ed, you know that we totally depend on God, for all of the work that He supplies for us at our plant. Our work comes in daily with no salesman, except God. We employ about 70 people at Industrial Electroplating; and our God continually furnishes everything that we need to meet our employee’s payroll, each week! You also know that our Father has supplied the funds for us to be able to build or repair 13 churches around the world, in a number of different countries. My wife Amelia and I, some of our daughter-in-laws, along with some of grandchildren are about to leave for Romania. We will have the privilege of ministering the gospel to about 1,400 children and youth, during the week of July 22nd. This will be our 41st trip outside of our nation. I tell you all of that, to simply say that, ‘If we go around the world to witness; what about the precious souls who work at our plant’? Their labor has helped to provide for these foreign outreach ministries. And yet, my heart cries out for the salvation of the vast majority of their souls, who are without a saving relationship with Jesus Christ. If we did not call “time out” during working hours and witness to them, I could not live with myself and stand before our Lord one day! Brother Ed, God did a mighty work in their hearts while you were here. We have given out three study bibles and talked with many who are thinking about their souls, We have answered many questions from them, as many are under conviction. You planted the seeds deep; and now the seed needs to be watered. The family night cookout turned out very good. Many are begging for us to do that again next year, so that they can invite more friends to come. We must remember that many of these people do not go to any church; so this was all new to them. Ed, we must put this on your calendar next year for you to come back. Our prayers for our employees are being answered, by the only One who can grant Salvation- the LORD JESUS CHRIST. We praise Him and give Him all of the Glory. I will keep you updated on our employee’s progress.”