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Dear Men’s Group, and Hydesville Community,

I want to thank you for blessing us with the Outdoorsman Dinner. Amongst all the other things you do for us – monthly support, yearly construction crews, and now this. Truthfully we tend to steer visiting groups away from evangelism for a variety of reason.

In short:

· the danger of not presently the message clearly because of lack of language ability

· the danger of implying to the local church that it is the job of the visitors to do the evangelism. This can only work against us in the long run.

· visitors often go away leaving hundreds “saved” when folks just raised a hand or repeated a prayer without grasping what it was all about. My experience with this is that unsaved folks are convinced they are saved because “el americano” said so. This makes sharing the Gospel with that person only more difficult.

But Outdoorsman Dinner truly presents a platform that effectively brings the unsaved men in, as well as constructing a bridge between the brothers from church and the men who so desperately need Christ.

I thank you for all the work and expense and investment you make for Outdoorsmen Dinner. Even though I can’t report to you the hundreds or dozens who become believers at the dinners, the event is truly making inroads in men’s lives.

Gabriel Fuerte, for example (his last name means “strong” but he was weak!). A few weeks after the dinner he told me “Marcos, I am tired. Tired of year after year of nothingness, of addictions, of going nowhere.” That same day he gave his life to Christ, came right into the church body, and continues to move forward.

Thank you HCC, thank you!

Marcos
Olive Tree Ministry
Porvenir, Mexico

Outdoorsmen Outreach has swooped into our Mexican community and has impacted the unsaved men of the community for the Gospel, as well as having handed the men of the church a practical tool they are eager to use, to invite other men to, and then use it as common ground for sharing God's message.