By the time you receive this newsletter the BLITZ will be upon you (Feb. 18-21) so for you that cannot actually come and be a part of the National Street Preacher's Convention in San Francisco...PLEASE PRAY FOR IT! But I encourage you to make plans early for the BEALE STREET BLAST in Memphis, TN. Enclosed is a flyer with all the pertinent information. The host, Ken Lansing is a very dear friend of mine and I am looking forward to being a part of this. Many of you have "badgered" me to have an east coast blitz...well this will do fine till we can put another together. I am happy to see these "Offensives" becoming available for publick ministers. I think they are a lot more valuable for the Laodicean Christian than all these "Retreats".

We went caroling with one of our favorite churches, the Capitol City Baptist in Austin, TX. In these last days somehow caroling is not quite what it is portrayed in the movies. But it is still a publick witness. I had a most joyous time ministering in OLD TOWN SPRING in Spring, TX. just above Houston. Some of you may remember my printing the testimony of Christopher Loop in a newsletter a couple of months back. He was the Marine, power-lifter who was scared to death to preach publickly. Chris, his boy and another man from his church and myself were in this marvelous shopping community, referred to above, where they had taken old houses and turned them into antique stores and exclusive gift shops for elite shoppers to come and spend money and hear the publick gospel at the same time. The streets through this area are all public and very little auto traffic so it was wide open to publick ministry. Corpus Christi, TX. It is hard to imagine what goes on in the mind of the sinner while waiting on a bus when all of a sudden 14 Christian adults and kids come tramping into the center of the outdoor bus terminal with trumpets, an accordion, a baritone, a banner, scripture signs, Bibles and tracts and strike up the band and begin to minister just like it was the normal thing to do. That was the scene we projected in that city with two local pastors, Bevins Welder from Beeville and Lenny Shores from Corpus. We went back a couple days later to the same spot with another pastor, Tommy O'dell and his men but hardly anyone was there. I wonder if we put the bus station out of business. Bars YES, bus stations NO. We pounded the floundering dirty book store once again in Amarillo, TX. with pastor Larry Hickam and his fine church and family. It won't be much longer and that business will be no more. They have completely modified the outside of the building to try to fend off the convicting publick preaching. Modification is very expensive. We were very happy to be able to minister in the "Old Lighthouse" on the Rolf homes property in Corpus Christi. Some 30 young men sat attentive and eager to be ministered to while I challenged them concerning their publick ministry obligation. I also preached in a jail in Beeville, TX. and saw some four MEN come to the Lord. Prisons, jails and rescue missions are always harvest fields in these last days. Two newspaper interviews with photos plus a radio interview and two full hours of live television gave us quite a lot of coverage throughout Texas this past month.