Last Tuesday I went down to Ocean City with Tom Fox, one of my partners in the Washington/Baltimore branch of OAC. We meet Paul Adams the branch director down at Ocean City where he had a team of youth from Forcey Memorial Church. This team is in the process of a 6 week local missions trip and last week they were at Ocean City.
I was excited about going down to Ocean City to help with the training of the youth althought Tom and I were only going to be there for 24hrs. We arrived at the house were they were staying at around 1:30 and then I was told I would be teaching Ryan, a youth on the team, the message he was going to be preaching and how to paint the pre-sketch. We spend the remainder of the afternoon working on the painting and also on reviewing the message. Then after devotionals and dinner we went out to the boardwalk to preach the Gospel. Each of the 4 young men preached a message as well, as Paul, Greg, and myself. It was incredible to see the 4 youths preach the Gospel on the boardwalk. It truly showed that the power of the Gospel proclaimed
is effective unto salvation. We are just vessels that God uses and it was great to be used to help instruct and then watch to Gospel being preached and knowing that God allowed me to be a tool in this process. During the night of preaching many people were preached to and many one to one converstations occurred. It was a great night of ministry. Then the following day Tom and I were able to go to the beach and spend some time in prayer and Bible reading which was very refreshing. Having a few hours of solitude by the ocean and reading God's word was a real blessing. Then around 1:00 we headed back home to the D.C. area. I pray that as you have read this experience you are able to see how important this work of spreading the Gospel is and I pray this blog will inspire you to personally share your faith more or if you are involved with a group that would like to have an opportunity to share go on a short term mission trip just visit our website at www.oacusa.org and contact one of our evangelist and we will try to arrange for you or your group. God bless each of you and good night.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009
We are now in Maryland
Hello all,
Well, we are offically moved into our new home in Silver Spring, MD and I am so glad that I can now begin working with OAC on a full-time basis. Since we have been here I have already been involved in two outreaches. One was to the city docks in Annapolis and the other was to the Washington mall on the 4th of July. Both of these opportunities to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ we wonderful and many seeds were planted. Now tomorrow I am going to Ocean City, MD to help with a youth group from Paul Adams' home church. I am looking forward to going back to do more ministry at Ocean City because it is such a great place to share the Gospel with a wide range of cultures and ethnic groups. My new newsletter will be posted soon at the OAC website so if you do not recieve it in the mail you can see what else I have been doing over the last few months by going to www.oacusa.org then go to my page and it should be there by next week. Well, I have to pack for tomorrow and then get to sleep so I will keep you all updated of things to come and ministry events. Praise God we are here and well.
Well, we are offically moved into our new home in Silver Spring, MD and I am so glad that I can now begin working with OAC on a full-time basis. Since we have been here I have already been involved in two outreaches. One was to the city docks in Annapolis and the other was to the Washington mall on the 4th of July. Both of these opportunities to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ we wonderful and many seeds were planted. Now tomorrow I am going to Ocean City, MD to help with a youth group from Paul Adams' home church. I am looking forward to going back to do more ministry at Ocean City because it is such a great place to share the Gospel with a wide range of cultures and ethnic groups. My new newsletter will be posted soon at the OAC website so if you do not recieve it in the mail you can see what else I have been doing over the last few months by going to www.oacusa.org then go to my page and it should be there by next week. Well, I have to pack for tomorrow and then get to sleep so I will keep you all updated of things to come and ministry events. Praise God we are here and well.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Preaching at Ocean City, MD
Hello all,
I just returned from Ocean City, MD where myself and several other evangelist from OAC where preaching the gospel. It was a great time of ministry and we were able to preach multiple messages each night. We preached for 5 nights and had crowds ranging from 10 to 60+ people at times. The gospel of Jesus Christ was proclaimed and many one on one conversations took place after the messages. I was able to preach 4 of the 5 nights and it was incredible to share in the labor of preaching the gospel in such a unique setting. Paul Adams, myself, and Tom Fox, will be going back down to Ocean City with some teams from churches later this summer to continue this work. I praise God for the fruitful ministry that occurred and I will be praying that many people come to faith in Jesus Christ because of the proclamation of His message. One additional note that I would like to share with all of you that keep up with my blog is that me and my family will be moving to Silver Spring, MD at the end of this month and then I will be preaching the gospel with OAC out of the Washington/Baltimore branch full-time. Please keep us in your prayers that we are able to continue to proclaim the gospel and see many come to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and that God will continue to provide for all of our needs as we take this next step.
I just returned from Ocean City, MD where myself and several other evangelist from OAC where preaching the gospel. It was a great time of ministry and we were able to preach multiple messages each night. We preached for 5 nights and had crowds ranging from 10 to 60+ people at times. The gospel of Jesus Christ was proclaimed and many one on one conversations took place after the messages. I was able to preach 4 of the 5 nights and it was incredible to share in the labor of preaching the gospel in such a unique setting. Paul Adams, myself, and Tom Fox, will be going back down to Ocean City with some teams from churches later this summer to continue this work. I praise God for the fruitful ministry that occurred and I will be praying that many people come to faith in Jesus Christ because of the proclamation of His message. One additional note that I would like to share with all of you that keep up with my blog is that me and my family will be moving to Silver Spring, MD at the end of this month and then I will be preaching the gospel with OAC out of the Washington/Baltimore branch full-time. Please keep us in your prayers that we are able to continue to proclaim the gospel and see many come to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and that God will continue to provide for all of our needs as we take this next step.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
On our way
Well, I am offically done working on Wednesday and I will be going into full-time ministry with OAC in June. I have been encouraged by many people and there are many friends who have helped me through prayers and support which have given me and my family the faith to leave my salary paid position and completely trust God and the body of Christ, the church, to supply for all of our needs. I will be going to the Washington Bible College ETA to help train students how to effectively share their faith and preach the gospel in the open air. This will occur from June 8th untill June 13th. For all of you who are new to this blog I would like to explain how it came about.
It stated out because I was listening to a message by John Piper,for those of you who do not know John Piper look him up on the internet he is a phenominal preacher, and in the message he stated that all good preachers need to be able to be well written and since I am encouraged by John so much and I am just starting out in open air preaching I thought I would like to be a good preacher, not for myself, but for God's glory. So I decided to start this blog. At first I though it would be a theology blog because I had many questions about God's will and our free will. I have since come to an understanding and feel a peace about these issues. I do not wish to argue or try to persuade anyone to accept my theology concerning Calvinism or Arminianism but, I know what I believe and I know God is in control and that is all I will say at this point. I am not saying that in the future I may not come back and revisit this debate and maybe even discuss it more on this blog but, as for now I will not.
The only thing that I feel compelled to preach and teach is Jesus Christ and Him crucified. The gospel message that Jesus lived a sinless life, died on the cross and took the punishment for our sins and on the third day rose again and defeated death so that we do not have to pay the penalty for our sins. All anyone needs to do is repent of our sins and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. This is the message of hope that I pray I am able to share with the world for the remainder of my life. I want to share this message and if this brings one or more to faith in Jesus Christ I will rejoice. To God be the glory.
It stated out because I was listening to a message by John Piper,for those of you who do not know John Piper look him up on the internet he is a phenominal preacher, and in the message he stated that all good preachers need to be able to be well written and since I am encouraged by John so much and I am just starting out in open air preaching I thought I would like to be a good preacher, not for myself, but for God's glory. So I decided to start this blog. At first I though it would be a theology blog because I had many questions about God's will and our free will. I have since come to an understanding and feel a peace about these issues. I do not wish to argue or try to persuade anyone to accept my theology concerning Calvinism or Arminianism but, I know what I believe and I know God is in control and that is all I will say at this point. I am not saying that in the future I may not come back and revisit this debate and maybe even discuss it more on this blog but, as for now I will not.
The only thing that I feel compelled to preach and teach is Jesus Christ and Him crucified. The gospel message that Jesus lived a sinless life, died on the cross and took the punishment for our sins and on the third day rose again and defeated death so that we do not have to pay the penalty for our sins. All anyone needs to do is repent of our sins and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. This is the message of hope that I pray I am able to share with the world for the remainder of my life. I want to share this message and if this brings one or more to faith in Jesus Christ I will rejoice. To God be the glory.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Home again
Above is Mark Kennedy getting ready for a children's message on Sunday at local church in Easton,PA.
I arrived back in Altoona about 2 hours ago and it is good to be home. I was meet at the front door by my wife and baby boy. Zoran was very excited to see me and it is great to be back in my home with my family. After being away for 5 days home being home is nice.
I had a wonderful time at the Staff conference and seeing and hearing all of the reports from the branches of OAC throughout the country I can't wait until we are able to move and go into the ministry full-time. I know God will provide for our needs and I ask that each of you keep me and my family in your prayers. I am planning on assisting with the Evangelism Training Academy in the month of June at Washington Bible College and I will also be starting to look for housing in the Washington D.C. area in preperation for our departure at the end of June.
Well, just wanted to give a quick update and now it is time to spend the rest of the day with my wife and family before I have to go back to work tomorrow. God bless all of you.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Staff Conference
Hello all,
I am currently at Open Air Campaigners' national staff conference. I have meet many fellow evangelist and the knowledge I am gaining is great. I will be here at the conference for another 3 days and then I will be heading home to Altoona. In June I will be attending the Evangelism Training Academy at Washington Bible College. This is the same Academy that I just went through last year and I am amazed at how God has moved in my life and has enabled me to be doing the thing that I love, which is preaching the Gospel, just in one short year. I would encourage anyone who has a desire to do evangelism to check out the video on the oacmd.org website. The training Academy last year was phenomenal and taught me so much and it was an invaluable experience. Well, I will update all of you later on how the entire conference went but,for now I must go. May God bless you and your families as you continue to follow Him.
I am currently at Open Air Campaigners' national staff conference. I have meet many fellow evangelist and the knowledge I am gaining is great. I will be here at the conference for another 3 days and then I will be heading home to Altoona. In June I will be attending the Evangelism Training Academy at Washington Bible College. This is the same Academy that I just went through last year and I am amazed at how God has moved in my life and has enabled me to be doing the thing that I love, which is preaching the Gospel, just in one short year. I would encourage anyone who has a desire to do evangelism to check out the video on the oacmd.org website. The training Academy last year was phenomenal and taught me so much and it was an invaluable experience. Well, I will update all of you later on how the entire conference went but,for now I must go. May God bless you and your families as you continue to follow Him.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Outreach to Penn State
We had a wonderful outreach on the campus of Penn state a couple of weeks ago. Jim,Roger,Glenn, and I went down to Penn State with Luke's church and had a great time of planting many seeds for the Lord and where involved in many conversations. We spoke with a Gentleman named Peter and he was very interested in the work we were doing. Although according to his words. " We are on the same side except you guys are on the front line and I will act as a support person. I will hand you as many supplies as you need while you are on the front line fighting." He wanted to make a donation to us and we informed him that we could not accept a donation and did not want anything. He did end up going to Dunkin Donuts and bringing us back some donuts. We told him we really did not want him to but, he insisted and would not take no for an answer. I do have to admit on the ride home after the outreach the donuts did taste good. Overall we were able to preach to 25 to 30 people and handed out many tracts. I want to thank all who participated and Praise God for his faithfulness in bringing the people to listen to His word being proclaimed. We will be look at doing another outreach to Penn state in May if all works out according to God's will. I will be heading to OAC's annual staff conference this week and I am very excited to meet all of the other staff evangelist that I have not yet meet. I know this will be a great week of learning, ministry and fellowship. I pray all of you have a great week in the Lord and until next time may God richly bless you and your families to God be the glory.
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