255 Decisions for Christ in Prescott

In the midst of a new wave of revival, we are seeing numerous people give their lives to Jesus in every service, and every outreach. Pastor Greg Mitchell has been preaching a series, “The Revival We Need,” that is giving us an understanding of what it takes to prepare ourselves for the move of God that has been long promised. It is also giving us an appetite for the things of God and to see souls delivered and changed by Jesus.

We have had the opportunity to hold several different outreaches that reached a variety of audiences. Through these we have seen both God’s favor and fruit added to our congregation.

Every year when our County Fair comes to town, we set up a fair booth. This has always been a fruitful time as it draws hundreds of people out, and gives us an opportunity to share the Gospel with people of all ages, and from all over the county.

This year we chose a theme of “Missing the Mark,” and this was pulled off with the use of high powered nerf guns and spinning targets to help! As people stopped by the booth and took turns attempting to hit the target, it led perfectly to the sharing of the Gospel. We were able to share how none of us are able to make the mark, but God in his perfection took our place.

Throughout the weekend we spoke with hundreds of people,and we saw 29 souls respond to the Gospel. Additionally, we saw two notable miracles right there in the middle of the fairgrounds. One lady approached the booth who had a fractured hip and needed walking assistance. After prayer she was powerfully healed and the pain left her body.

Another man came to the booth who claimed to be an agnostic. He stated that he did not believe in the power of God or that God even cared about him and his circumstances. We challenged him that God did indeed care very much about his circumstances, and he also has Power: the power to heal. The man had pain in his shoulder, and as he allowed us to pray for him, you could see the expression on his face change as all pain left, and he had no explanation other than there must be a God who cared for him and healed him.

The following weekend we held a performance of our play “Into the Sun.” This play touches on the theme of suicide and shares the Hope of Jesus Christ that is offered to a broken generation. We had an open door into one of our high schools that allowed us to give a three-night presentation of this play. What stood out most about this outreach was the connections that were made with these young high school students who came out.

One of the teachers at the school gave incentive to her class to receive extra credit by attending the play, but only IF they got their program signed by cast members. This was a wonderful opportunity for one-on-one contacts to be made and it opened the door for deeper discussion on the message that was presented. Through this we saw several people not only give their lives to Christ, but also come into church and begin faithfully attending.

Our bi-annual Youth Extreme was held this past October, and we had nearly 450 youths from the surrounding area come to take part in this outreach.

We went out into the Tri-City area and began evangelizing and inviting people out to church and to our upcoming revival with Pastor Jerry Fussell. In the afternoon we definitely took our city by storm, as we broke up into three separate groups, found busy street corners, and began street preaching. Each group had a hundred, if not more young people gathered on the busy intersection corners; all of them gathered around and taking turns on a bullhorn giving their testimonies and proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For several of them, this was their first experience with street preaching, and it made an impact as a fire and boldness was stirred up in them.

To wrap up this powerful day, we had a performance of our new play “The Premonition.” We had almost 700 people in attendance for the performance. At the conclusion we pulled an altar call and saw 35 people respond to the call to give their lives to Christ.

If all of this hasn’t been exciting enough, we held our annual Haunted House the following weekend. This always draws a big crowd, as there is not really anyone else in the Prescott area that offers a Haunted House - or similar. This year we had people coming in even from out of town to wait in line, all for the thrill of being scared. We held the Haunted House for three nights, with the theme this year being “Asylum - You are just like us.” It walked the visitors through an asylum, with the twist of being able to hear the thoughts and the torments of the patients. After they had been led through each scene we ended with the presentation of the Gospel, and the hope of rescue, salvation and true change. Throughout the three nights we had more than 600 visitors walk through with a total of 255 decisions for Christ, along with multiple people healed and even a few filled with the Holy Ghost.

We are tremendously excited for the favor and breakthrough we have been seeing through our outreach and evangelism the last several months.

We are even more excited at all that God still has planned to do in us and through us, and we look forward to even more testimonies in the upcoming months. 3 Istood in the back of the sanctuary, arms folded across my chest. It was Friday night of the July 2021 conference. My brother-in-law had recently experienced a radical conversion. In two years, his life and family had been restored, and he was now being launched to pioneer a church in Mazatlán, Mexico.

I grew up in the fellowship and knew firsthand that God was real. However, I still struggled with God’s calling for my life and with the confidence that He had my best interests at heart.

Despite living in Prescott, I only attended a few services during that conference. I agreed to go on Friday night to see my brother-in-law announced. At the end of the service, as the newly announced pastors were prayed for, senior pastors laid hands on Roberto Rojo.

Pastor Roman Gutierrez prophesied and gave my brother-in-law this word, “You are going to see great revival, and the moment you answered the call to go, He began to work in your family. The moment you step foot in that place, you are going to begin to hear about radical conversions in your family. As you have revival over there, your family is going to be having revival over here.”

As Pastor Gutierrez gave Roberto this word, I rolled my eyes. My exact thoughts were, “This pastor thinks this Hispanic guy must have a bunch of unsaved family living here. But he doesn’t know I’m the only unsaved family member here, and I am not getting saved!”

Unbeknownst to me, this was an answer to prayer, and God was orchestrating things to bring me to a decision.

For nearly five years, I had been running from God’s will for my life. In my refusal to surrender, living a Christian life was an incredibly difficult experience. Trying to serve God on my terms was an ineffective uphill battle that I soon lost.

As my heart grew cold, I dropped out of ministry, stopped praying, and quit reading my Bible. I skipped church as often as excuses would permit. When Covid hit, I backslid completely and began to consider leaving the church.

Priscila, my wife of 14 years, had faithfully been praying for me. On day two of our Fellowship fast the week before the conference, my wife contended specifically for my salvation. She told the devil, “My husband and I are one. Therefore, you must get your hand off my life and my husband.”

During that conference, Pastor Rubi preached a sermon titled “The Offering.” This message greatly troubled me. For two weeks after that conference, I tried to shake the conviction, but God would not leave me alone. On August 1st, I came to the end of myself.

That Sunday afternoon, something inside me said it was time to decide. I was either going to leave the church for good or answer an altar call and fully surrender. After years of rebellion towards God, I answered the altar call that night. I didn’t just say a prayer or even stop at repentance. I made an emotionless choice of surrender.

In making this decision, sinful habits I struggled with for years fell away. My Christian life became one of excitement, joy, and new life. I developed a hunger for the word of God. Waking up to pray in the mornings became a joy.

It is hard to believe what God did in such a short amount of time. My wife is overjoyed at our newfound relationship in Christ and with each other. It was in 2017 that I told my pastor that I would never preach the Gospel. I thank God every morning that He did not give up on a backslidden pastor’s kid.

I am in awe at the power of my wife’s prayer and the prophetic word that came to pass in my life. Those words will forever be memorial stones I will reference as I continue in the Faith.