Remember the word, unto the servant, upon his breast.
Remember the word unto that servant
Hope with the haste caused me to grow
I remembered by judgment so I fold
Oh Lord, and have comforted myself
Oh Lord
The statues have been my songs
In the house of my pilgrimage
Remember the word, unto thy servants
Oppose the haste come
I have remembered my name, O Lord, in the night and have kept the
Remember the word
Happy New Year and thanks for joining us
on The Baptist Bias.
We've got a special episode that we're gonna be doing today
and we're gonna be bringing on a special guest,
Pastor Stephen Anderson today.
But of course, it's been like a whole year
since we've done the show, Ben.
How have you been since the whole entire year of 2024?
Well, I'm still here in the flesh. So I'm happy about that. No, I mean all kidding aside
God has really been great to me and my family
I feel blessed and I'm excited to be here on this day one edition of the Baptist bias
Now we're gonna actually be having a couple different episodes January. We're not gonna do a full season
Um, right now we may do that later in the year, but we just wanted to do a couple episodes
and we wanted to get people excited for 2025.
And somebody that's really, really excited for 2025 is Pastor Stephen Anderson.
He's preached whole sermons about how he's going to really have a great year this year.
And so we're excited to bring you on the show and let's talk about 2025, but welcome to
the show, Pastor Anderson.
it's going great. Thanks for having me on. How's your year started so far? Wonderful.
Now, you preached a sermon recently about 2025. What were your thoughts?
Yeah, so I just preached on Sunday a sermon called This Will Be Our Greatest Year,
and I just firmly believe that
Our destiny is in our own hands because of the fact that
obviously God wants to bless us, God wants us to succeed, He wants us to prosper.
He wants people to get saved.
Just as much as we want people to get saved even more than we want people to get saved
and so my philosophy has always been that if we'll get on God's program and
Do what he tells us to do. Yeah, we can have revival at any time. We can have
Exciting works for God happening
Anytime and you know, I just decided
That I want to have a great year this year and so I'm going to have a great year this year and faithful word Baptist Church is going to have a great year obviously there have been a lot of negative things over the last several months and you know they're really
Two ways that you can respond to that, right?
You can just get discouraged and get down, get backslidden, use it as an excuse to just, you know,
move backward in your Christian life, or you can just push forward, and that's what I'm doing.
I'm doubling down on my Bible reading, doubling down on soul winning, you know,
and I've got a lot of goals for myself this year personally, goals for our church.
Our church right now has a great spirit. Everybody's super pumped, super excited. We've got just
a great door open unto us and effectual, and so I'm ready to just rock this thing.
Yeah, one thing that I've always kind of thought about, especially in the context of soul winning,
is just when you knock on someone's door,
they open their door. They don't care at all about you and your personal problems.
It doesn't matter if you're having a great day, the worst day, whatever. Like,
it's just a moment to just open your Bible and preach the gospel to somebody.
And I think sometimes maybe we get too fixated on our life circumstances and
we're not really thinking about, you know, we just need to go out there and preach
the gospel to people. And I think that's so winning.
is kind of a, it's kind of a reset of the mind sometimes, you know, when I'm going out there,
it's like, I'm going to put my, my life on hold for a moment and just try to give this person
saved because at the end of the day, the only thing I can take with me out of this world
are the souls that are coming with me. And so, you know, that's really the most important thing.
A lot of things can be acquired and a lot of things can be taken, you know, Job had a situation
but he's saying, hey, the Lord gives, the Lord takes away,
blessed be the name of the Lord.
But really, the only thing that truly matters
is the works that we do for Christ
and the people that we can get saved
seems to be the most important thing.
And so focusing on that should just always be
what we're doing.
And so I'm excited about 2025,
what soul winning advantages that we may have now,
having more experience, having done missions trips,
Kind of excited about this new idea you brought up about cruise missions that some of the people your church have already started exploring
And so I think that now it's even more of an opportunity to go out and preach the gospel
Not necessarily resting on our loyals of the past or our laurels of the past
But really what we can accomplish this year. I'm hoping to set a personal best and our church's best as far as
numbers that we do and the works that we do. And so I think that 2025 can be a really exciting
year. What are your thoughts been for 2025?
Well, I think it's important to keep our eyes looking forward because it can be easy to
slip into this attitude that, well, the former days are better.
Ecclesiastes 7 talks about this, you know, say not thou, the former days were better
than these.
For thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this, and one way that I would apply that
it could be easy to think, well, you know, the old days were better for us because that's when
we were on YouTube. That's when the documentaries were getting millions of views. And, you know,
Pastor Anderson had his channel with 150 plus thousand subs, whatever. But that's the wrong
attitude. We can still reach people. We can still do great works for God. And I think the thought
and the mentality that we should have is, you haven't seen anything yet. And that's why I really
title from Pastor Anderson about
Hey, this will be our greatest year yet. If you set out for that to be the goal
Why not actually achieve it? Why not keep moving forward?
Not why not do mightier works than we've ever done before and I think that's a realistic goal and one that
Certainly we can hit so I've just got to keep moving forward forget about the past. It's done. What's done is done. Great
We had some nice accomplishments now. Let's achieve something even better moving forward
Yeah, I'm interested. Obviously, we're going to try and do our best, but we need other
people to come alongside of us. So is there any kind of events or things that you want
to promote or that you're hoping other people will kind of get excited about, Pastor Anderson?
Yeah, absolutely. I mean obviously we're gonna have some great conferences this year as always
There's the King James conference up in the Portland, Oregon area
Which is coming up in May and so that's a big one
Then you got the fire breathing Baptist Fellowship, which I believe is in August in Dallas, Fort Worth area and
Then we're gonna have our business 31st
27th through the 31st of August, and then we're going to have our missions conference.
November. We had it in 2020 and then we didn't have it for a few years after all
the COVID stuff because frankly COVID was just making it hard to travel to
foreign countries. So during COVID we were more focused on local soul winning,
Indian reservations, small towns in Arizona and then we really got back into
foreign missions hard core in 2024 and then 2025 we're gonna push that even
November, we're gonna have our big missions conference. Do you have dates for that?
Here, let me just make up a date right now. You don't have to do that. I just I just didn't know.
I mean, I need I need a date for this thing. Anyway, because I want to reiterate
So, uh, I decree that it shall be, uh, the, uh, what?
The fifth through the ninth of November.
There we go.
Boom.
Done.
Fifth through the ninth.
So let it be written.
So let it be done.
Bucket.
That's it.
Easy as that.
was what Ben was saying about just kind of not resting on past
laurels, because obviously, yeah, we have had a lot of cool achievements,
but I'm going into this year as if I've never had an achievement in my life.
I'm just pushing a reset button.
I'm putting all achievements in the past just starting from scratch starting over in fact when I when I woke up this morning
This is what I I wrote out. I said I was gonna do this in my sermon
I woke up. I wrote this sign
About having zero people saved for 2025 because you know, it's like we're starting over
And I'm hoping to, you know, have more people saved myself personally through personal soul winning this year than any year in in the past.
And then my goals for the church are that we get more people out on the mission field than we've ever had.
in the history of our church.
More of our church members actually physically
going to a mission field and going soul winning
in a foreign country.
And also that our church would go soul winning
in more foreign countries this year
than we ever have in history.
And so this new cruise trip soul winning idea
is the vehicle by which we plan to achieve that.
Yeah, I think that that's I really want to talk about this cruise missions and just to reiterate what you've already said
We put it in the chat
But sure Foundation Baptist Church is gonna have a King James Bible Conference May 16th through the 18th
And that's in Vancouver, Washington. So if you're anywhere in that area you should go and check it out
Pastor Anderson is gonna be preaching there. I'm gonna be preaching there
I know Pastor Bruce Mejia is going to be preaching out there.
Pastor Aaron Thompson is going to be preaching out there, and I may be missing a few preachers,
but there's going to be a lot of great preachers that are going to be out there.
And so you want to make sure that you are able to visit Sure Foundation Baptist Church.
We had a conference like this, and forgive me if I miss, remember the year.
I don't know if it was last year or two years ago, but it was it was maybe a couple years ago
that we already had a King James Bible conference out there. And I I really enjoyed it. And
Pastor Thompson and his church, they decorated the church really nice. And there was a great
crowd and some really good sermons. We had some Q&As. And so it was it was definitely a great time
of fellowship. I really enjoyed it. I think I think this year is going to be even better. I'm
um, this particular conference. And so if you are looking to a conference in May, you've got to go
out there. Also was brought up as Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship. We're going to be having this
at the end of August. We normally have it in October, but I actually moved it up just because
we're going to go back to the Bahamas in October. And I'll talk about that here in a little bit,
but um, so if you want to join us for the Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship, um, we're going to
have that conference we've been kind of having it every other year and so last year we had our
kids conference this year we're having the Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship again and so looking
forward to that event and then also uh I guess just on the Johnny on the spot Pastor Anderson
nailed it November 5th through the 9th we're gonna have the Faith Ward Baptist Church Missions
Conference and boy you're gonna have a lot more options this year considering how many foreign
planning on doing and all the different countries
that you're wanting to go to.
So that's really exciting.
I wanna talk about this cruise mission stuff.
Now, you've already done this.
You've already gone on a cruise mission trip,
but you are planning to do a ton more.
I'm very unfamiliar with this concept.
So I'm just kinda curious,
like, do you mind just kind of elaborating,
like,
What what have you already done and kind of experienced as far as these cruise missions and why do you like it so much?
Yeah, Lee so
Evan wrote our church is the one who came up idea. He'd been kind of taught it for months and and you know showing us
Ideas about it and everything, but it really hit home when he actually successfully executed it
You know so he and his wife and three other people from our church
They took one of these cruise mischiefs. They just you know organized it themselves paid their own way and everything
There's just something that they did
and they went on this cruise that hit like six different countries in like seven or eight days
or something and they ended up having like 89 people saved and they were kind of treating it
like a vacation so that they were literally only soul winning for like three hours a day at these
stops but it was just so receptive in these places that you know and they had five people working
And over the course of the eight days or whatever, they ended up having, like, 89 people safe.
So I felt like it was just wildly safe, especially just for being as casual as it was, you know?
Was this like the reflexes kicked in or were they actually planned to go soul-winning for
a few hours?
Oh, no, no, no.
They planned it as a soul-winning thing.
Okay.
They made their own way because like when we have church-sponsored trips, you know, sometimes
we push it a little harder because obviously if the church is sponsoring people for flights
or accommodations or anything, if we're helping people financially, then we strive for like
the day of being, you know, to make sure we're getting some good production in. And that still
leaves plenty of time to have fun and relax. And let's face it, when you're in a receptive area,
five hours of soul winning is grueling. Yeah. Because like five hours of soul winning,
you're getting a lot of breaks, just kind of, you know, of people not talking to you, people
not, you're just kind of hanging out and talking stuff. But like, you know, when you're just preaching
But, you know, obviously, if the church is sponsoring people who want to get, you know,
some printed out of it.
And so, they just went on a trip.
What I'm saying is that even just with like three hours of hard soul winning a day on
this trip, they had incredible results, you know, phenomenal results.
you know, section fields and will cool because it also, you know, they learned to like, okay, this place is receptive. This place isn't that great. Here's the strategy over here. So it's like it's recon as well because you're learning about these countries, cultures, who's receptive, who's not, etc.
at the missions conference just to kind of put this idea out there and so in 2025 we want to
really push this thing hard like this is our main push for missions is we would like to see a hundred
people do one of these cruise missions trips so far we got a total of like 10 or 11 people that
are signed by our church alone but I mean we're just barely getting started I'm sure we're gonna get
It's not a long run to do these things, but I wanted to do it myself because they talk
about something effectively if you haven't experienced it yourself.
So I just kind of last minute, I already had Pastor Mejia lined up to come preach for me.
So I just kind of last minute, he's already preaching on Wednesday night, gives me a way
to get out.
And I was kind of constrained by not wanting to miss Sunday.
That caused me not to miss a Sunday last minute and I went to a place called Turks and Caicos or
one day soul winning and
I ended up just having
phenomenal results
So just in the one day of soul winning in Turks and Caicos. I was just with my 12 year old son
And we had 23 people saved just in one day on Turks and Caicos because we went to like a school or something, right?
Yeah, well like the first hour or so we were kind of struggling because
people weren't really
That receptive and then we were running into a little bit of a language barrier
Even though it's an English-speaking country. There were people, you know that that only Spokation Creole
And they weren't really very good in English because they were like Haitian immigrants and things like that.
So then we ended up noticing a lot of school kids like walking down the street.
And so we started just going and talking. We were driving like a little golf cart.
So we were just kind of like driving down the street and then just stopping and talking to teenagers.
and that started to be super effective.
So then we started to kind of see
where all the teenagers were gravitating from,
which was the high school,
because God just really worked it out
that they just happened to be having exams that day
so everybody was getting out early.
So you have all these teenagers getting out early,
they had time, they're just kind of hanging out.
And so we were just going to one teenager after another
and just preaching to teenagers
and we got like 23 people saved.
Over the course of several hours, then we drove the golf cart to a community college
But the community college was not operating. It was shut down. There was one employee there
Haitian Creole English wasn't good enough that didn't work and then I gave the gospel to a student
But she just wasn't receptive. Yeah, but then the next day went to the Dominican Republic
Didn't have as good of a day so winning there
language barrier and just wasn't very receptive,
a lot of distractions, it just didn't go well,
but we ended up getting somebody saved at least.
But anyway, that kind of gave me a taste of it.
And number one, I just loved the trip
as far as just going on the cruise ship is super fun.
Just a lot of cool things about that.
and then just soul winning in the Caribbean,
you just can't beat it.
It's just a great place to go soul winning.
And so if I wanna personally have a lot of
salvations this year, I feel like one of the best ways
is just to get out on the mission field
as much as I can this year
and just preach to receptive people.
And the main thing that I love about this cruise ship
missions idea is that it's so accessible to anyone.
and it's very scalable.
And what I mean by that is people who don't go
to a new IFB church can easily get in on this
because you really just need two people
to do this effectively.
Obviously doing stuff by yourself is too difficult.
It doesn't really work.
But if you just have two or more people.
I mean, I feel like just any two random people
in an old IFB church, in a new IFB church,
in a disgruntled used to be new IFB church, whatever,
whoever could really just plan this on their own
because it's such a no-brainer.
Because usually when we do mission strips,
there's all this planning and logistics and hotels
and where are we gonna eat,
where are we gonna go soul-winning,
what's the transportation?
The cruise ship kind of just thinks of everything.
Yeah. And so you pretty much just pay for the cruise, go on the cruise, and then you're
going to stop at these ports, and then when you get off in that country, go soul-winning.
So I mean, what we're encouraging people to do is just plan this on their own. Right.
And just email us the results. What about transportation on land? What did you use to
Yeah, so here's how that works
Basically what I did and I would encourage anybody who's booking a cruise. Let me give you just some kind of tips on booking the cruise
Okay, there's a website called cruise plumb calm and that helps you like filter all the different cruises in the world by a bunch of
Metrics so cruise plum is pretty helpful
And then what I do when I'm looking at cruise plum and it's showing like where the cruise ship stops
Then I go to Google Maps and I'll just type in
the name of the port, you know, so like, for example, in Turks and Caicos, we would do a place called Grand Turk, so I just happened like Grand Turk cruise port or, you know, and then we went also to Amber Cove, so I'm just like Amber Cove cruise terminal or whatever.
So then what happens is you can look at a satellite image, okay, and the best ones are the one literally just walk off the cruise ship and you're just in a city.
So then transportation is totally unnecessary.
So, like, for example, we're going to be going to the Bahamas on several of these, and one
that we're pushing with our church, and if anybody's listening and wants a cruise to
get in on, there's one on a ship called Norwegian Jade, so Norwegian's the cruise line, the ship's
called Jade, it's March 23rd through 28th, I believe.
It's on our church website, but yeah, it's like 20 March 23rd, Norwegian Jade leaving out of
Miami, I want to say somewhere in Florida. It's on the church website, but
Brothers say Gora is gonna be on it at least like seven other people from our church are gonna be on it
Hopefully a lot of it'd be cool to just have you know, 20 30 40 soul winners on this trip
It's gonna make four stops in the Bahamas. So like one of those stops is Nassau
It's like well if you look at Google Maps on the satellite view you can see that you can just get right off the ship
And you're just in Nassau, you know, and then it stops in a few other places like Freeport
It stops in
I don't remember the names off the top of my head be meanie or whatever and and and you just you walk off the ship
And you're in town now the places that I went
It wasn't like that when you when you got off the ship
You're in just like this ultra tourist thing, which is not going to be conducive soul winning
So if you're willing to hike a few miles you could walk like two miles or something
But it would take you you know 40 minutes or something, but you could do that or sometimes you can get a taxi cab
You can, you know, rent a golf cart or whatever.
Obviously, the cheapest option is to walk, and the best cruise ports are the ones where
you're just, you're already in town, and you can just go straight into the Soleign.
And there are a lot like that.
Yeah, I've been to Nassau and you can see the huge ships just right there in the middle of the city and
Those cruise ships are giant. So I honestly I've never been on one
but I just remember seeing them and just thinking like that looks like a skyscraper building on water and
What's kind of cool is that?
You know, this is a point that you kind of made, I want to emphasize it for a second.
You don't even have to like Pastor Anderson to participate in this event.
You could be totally just like not liking us.
You could hate the Baptist bias and you could still go and get a bunch of people saved.
We don't have the monopoly on missions and so that's great.
the ability to necessarily be in our region or go to one of our churches, but you just want to go
on a missions trip.
Logistically, I mean, this is solving so many problems
that you don't even have to think about.
You don't have to think about where you're going.
You don't have to think about food.
You don't have to think about, you know,
a lot of the safety aspects
because typically when you're landing in these cities,
it's gonna be during the day.
So you can kind of just get off and get back on.
You're not having to be there at night,
especially if you go with a partner.
Now, obviously there's gonna always be safety concerns
no matter what you do in traveling,
You know, at least it's a lot more safe of an environment than having to plan your own
trip and going to places that you're unfamiliar with and try to stay overnight somewhere.
And so, you know, the beauty of these cruise mission strips is really just how much of the planning, how much of the event cycle seems to be taken care of for you.
Now, I've never done it, but I know, you know, Ben, you've been on these cruises.
What is it like from just kind of an experience?
Like they're kind of taking care of everything or...
Yeah, I wish I had a testimony that I could say I went on a cruise and did soul winning.
Unfortunately, I did nothing productive on the cruises that I've been on, but no, I understand the concept from a vacation standpoint,
which is that there's basically unlimited food, and there's entertainment, there's a lot of things you could do on the ship.
The ship itself...
has so many things, it is a lot of fun.
I personally love it.
And I get that there's some people,
maybe they don't like ships or whatever,
maybe they get seasick.
If it's not your thing, it's not your thing.
But for me and for my family,
we really had a great time on the cruise vacations
that we've gone on.
And I have to emphasize that the food is fantastic,
especially the main dining hall,
which is free with your food.
a ticket that you paid for. It's included. You don't have to pay anything extra and
it's all you can eat. I mean, if they give you an entree, at least on Royal Caribbean,
if you get an entree and you say, I'm not full yet,
You get another one get a third one if you want mix and match do whatever they're there to serve you you're treated like
royalty on these things
So it's really a lot of fun, and I couldn't even imagine going there with other new IFP brethren or just Christians
The fellowship and the fun that that we would all have
So I really enjoy that well fairness
Since you love McDonald's so much. I don't know if your food, you know palette is as refined seems like everything might be an upgrade
That's a perspective you could have, and I appreciate that.
I'm just giving you a hard time.
Well, hey, McDonald's, I deserve it, I get it.
One thing I want to say is that, again, I've never done the soul winning,
but here's the thing I can say is don't have a laissez-faire attitude about getting back to the ship
when you get off and think, like, I'll just go back a little late.
It won't matter, because the ship will leave, all right, and you'll get stuck.
Yeah, I mean, this is going to be a rigid schedule.
They're running the ship for thousands and thousands of people, so you got to be on their time.
Absolutely, but they give you like eight to ten hours at each stop.
It's anywhere from like eight, nine, ten hours.
So there's tons of time for so many.
Yeah, you do have to take it really seriously.
uh, you know, what do they call it like anchors up or whatever time or whatever the deadline is like
You got to get there at that time for sure, but it's pretty easy to make it there because you could and by the way
Here's the thing like all the food on the ships totally free
So the strategy is you just eat a giant meal before you go ashore
Mm-hmm, and then you don't need to buy meals when you're on shore necessarily
because you just eat so much like before you get off ship just just gorge yourself just kind of fill the hump and then
you know that when you get back, you're going to hit that buffet hard.
And so you can go a little hungry.
You know throughout the day that way you don't have to pay for any food on shore
Or if you're in one of the ones where the soulings right by the ship
There's nothing to stop you from just getting back on the ship for a million five minutes
Yeah, having a meal and then just going right back out souling again because you can get on and off the ship
Super easily like it's not it's not this big production to get off and on the ship
It's just you know, you got your little ID card just boom getting on and off. It's like so smooth everything about
these cruises is so streamlined like it's more efficient than anything I've ever seen like
because it's more efficient than like going to the airport and flying it's more efficient than
checking into a hotel like just everything they do is like a well-oiled machine
Because if you think about it, they're like a mixture of transportation and lodging and a restaurant and entertainment. It's like they do all of it better than those industries individually do.
I was super impressed by just how smooth everything went. The company that I went with was Carnival,
which everybody that I've talked to or everything I've read online basically said that Carnival is like the bottom level.
that it's like the that it's the it is the McDonald's it's yeah the Walmart I'm
just like but if you would have told me that carnival is the top company I
would have believed it because I was so impressed by it and I'm thinking like man
if this is the worst company what the heck like I can't even imagine what the
good ones like but well so I did they have the cows
Want to ask do they have specific dining times on carnival because well this here's what it is like you sign up for a certain dinner time
Okay, and that's where you sit down in this like five-star restaurant and have people just like waiting on you hand and foot
It's totally free, but it's like you have a certain appointment each night for that dinner
But here's the thing, like we were new at this.
I didn't really know how things worked.
When I first got on the cruise ship,
like I just didn't know where anything was.
I didn't know how to do anything
because I've just never been on anything like this.
So like I didn't really understand how the dinner worked
for the first couple of days, you know,
cause I was just focused on other things.
And so I ended up like not even going
because I just didn't know.
So.
because there's just always the buffet, the burger place,
there's all this other stuff.
Yes, you could eat whenever you want 24-7,
all this great food.
It's really just the special dinner that's at a set time.
And here's the thing.
The special dinner is like way better than the buffet.
I mean, the buffet is good.
But the special dinner is just like incredible.
And so once I went to the dinner once,
I'm like, well, I'm never missing this again,
because this is too big.
It was like, and I picked like the latest time for dinner.
So it didn't conflict with any, you know,
going ashore or running or anything.
Did you get paired up with randoms for dinner?
Or were you by now? It was just my son and me every time. Yeah. Yeah, and I I think royal Caribbean similar
As far as what a research I've done. I've seen someone say that the Norwegian Jade
Actually, there's no such thing. You just literally eat whenever like you just show up and they just see you whenever you want
So it's kind of like a a little bit more flexibility
Yeah, and either they all have a lot of differences as far as like
Activities and yeah, and some nuances, but generally they're pretty similar. So some ships will have water slides
I think pretty much all of them will have like an arcade on board
It's great for families
This is a great option if you want to go soul winning with the family
But you don't want necessarily to just only fly to a country
You have an entire city on the ocean that the family can enjoy in between soul winning stops
Buff 8247 and additionally if you're up for it, you know, you could get paired up with a random
group of people for dinner and maybe that's an opportunity for soul winning if you want.
Obviously it goes wrong. I know it could be awkward, but I'm just pointing that out.
The employees tend to be from the Philippines and people from the Philippines are very receptive.
So there could be some soul winning opportunity on the ship,
plenty of soul winning off the ship. It is a lot of fun.
And that's what I want to emphasize. It really is a lot of fun in my in my opinion. Well, and again
not all cruises though are necessarily going to stop in places that are going to have good
soul-winning opportunities and that's something you kind of mentioned earlier because some of
these places are going to be stops like a artificial private island or kind of a touristy style area.
But I was kind of blown away.
by how many cruises exist like there's there's like 10 000 plus cruises happening all the time
as far as what you could pick from and so you know really you just kind of have to try and
do a little bit of research like you said I've gone to that site I don't know if you can pull
it up on my screen or not but that site you mentioned that cruise plum and it's it's not
necessarily real fancy looking but it has a ton of options like it's really sophisticated
and it gives you a ton of filtering options
and it has all these different cruises
that you can really look through.
And if you click on the little I,
it'll give you an idea of like all the different details
that will even tell you specifically
where it's gonna stop.
And then that's kind of where
what you brought up as beneficials,
you could look at that particular port or something
and see, hey, is this one gonna be a pretty good stop?
I've looked at some, the St. Thomas,
The St. Martin, those look like pretty good stops.
Nassau's gonna be a good stop.
St. John's looks like a good stop.
If you're Spanish speaking,
there's a lot of opportunities there too.
So as far as if you're going out of Galveston
or some other areas,
if you wanna do more English speaking,
it's probably gonna be more like the Bahamas
or some of this Eastern part of the Caribbean.
where it's like St. Thomas, St. Johns. The stop at Atlantis could be problematic, right? Because
isn't that just a bunch of old rich white tourists? And I don't sure exactly where you're stopping
because here's the thing. If you stop on the north side of Treasure Island, it would be admittedly
probably about a 20 to 25 minute walk until you kind of get to the locals. You want to talk to the
locals. But I've seen a lot of the cruise ships also on the south side, where if you if you're
I mean, it may only be like a 10, 15 minute walk.
There is gonna be unlimited like ubers and taxis and whatever.
We also have some contacts, you know, in that area.
So for people that are gonna be traveling with our groups
or, you know, if you kind of let us know,
there's other ways to kind of get around.
But, you know, the island's pretty small.
Nassau's not like really that big.
I think about,
especially from a car perspective, if you're getting in a taxi or Uber or something like that,
you could probably get anywhere in about 25, 30 minutes and then really get to good soul
winning within about 15 minutes. But I think really, you know, another opportunity is just
talking to the locals that are working there too, if they're on break and stuff like that,
just because when I visited to the Bahamas and been in some of these resort areas, some of the
there are still very receptive and you can talk to them. But yeah, Treasure Island specifically
in Atlantis is a very touristy designated area, so soul-winning there would not be receptive.
So hopefully if you are going to these islands, one thing you should consider is trying to go
where the locals live. Go where the locals live, consider school areas, university areas,
Spots of these islands. They're not receptive at all even the Bahamas specifically
We've been there multiple times and if you're walking around where all the white people are, you know, it's probably not very mean to me
It's not I don't know why yeah, it's not gonna necessarily be receptive. In fact, it might be very unreceptive
But if you go to where the locals live, that's where you can really think pastor Anderson. It's like you're about to talk a lot of people
Yeah, I would say you know, that's just good advice. Anyway, whenever you're vacationing is just to get away from all the like drunk middle-aged white people
More like authentic part of wherever you're going in general right because especially because like that's where everything's expensive anyway
Everything's expensive in the tourist area. You want to go to like?
the, the more local restaurants and low hotels and that's where you find the better deals.
You get a more authentic experience, whatever. But I mean, what, just a couple of tips, like
if people go on cruise plum and they're kind of looking for a cruise, you know, one of
the filters that I think is really effective is there's a total price where you can only
Because like I don't think anybody really wants to spend more than two grand for two people
So, you know, you might as well just filter all that out and just right away total price cap it at two grand
And then I would say the average price for a good cruise that's gonna have a bunch of good stops
We're we tend to be able to find a lot of them for about five or six hundred bucks a person
So and if you think about it, let's say you pay 600 bucks a person and then maybe 400 bucks a person to fly to Florida
Then you could do this for a thousand bucks out the door
And that's really out the door because everything is literally included on these cruises like there's no it's not like everything's behind a
paywall like you know
Everything you need is really included. You can easily go on the cruise without ever buying any food or drink or anything because it's all
Everything you want is included. And so, you know, 400 bucks for a flight to Florida
600 bucks for a cruise ticket or maybe 500 bucks for a flight 500 bucks for cruise
Thousand bucks is way cheaper than any other mission strip in my opinion. They could by the time you factor in hotels and stuff
So I would just filter by total price so that you just look for the look for the good deals and
Then just check the ports look at them on Google Earth and and make sure that you know, there's residential or something around
And then I'm totally a good point
What's a good point
The likes all of it that you could go on a trip for about a thousand bucks and
That you're not really go any cheaper than that and and there's a lot of tips here
One thing I want to say is there is a lot of opportunities on this cruise ship to still spend money
so like they're gonna have a lot of activities and
extra special things that you could do like watching movie or
Doing some particular like water
course or I've seen I've seen these things like you can literally do surfing on some of these cruise
ships because they have this like artificial like water thing and you're like doing surfing
they have so so there's like some really cool stuff you can do and pay as extras but there's
also free activities there's free events there's so much and then like you don't just you don't have
to I'm just saying and then there's restaurants that have like even fancier that you could pay for
so there is upgrades there's cool activities if you want to pay for those you don't have to
When you are on these islands though, this is what's funny to me, when we're in Nassau specifically, if you're in the tourist area and you wanted water.
We went and we got four Fiji waters just the kind of like normal to size Fiji water
They were $12 each so $60 for four water bottles
And if you just went to like a local store that's like literally just a minute south of that
The water bottles like a dollar or two each so so it's just like
Sometimes you don't realize like how they just like gouged you in in some of these touristy parts of the specific island
And even Fiji is the same way. I've been to Fiji and, you know, if you leave as soon
as you just kind of leave the tourist part of Fiji, you know, you're just in the local
area. Like the soul wanting was very receptive there. There's all kinds of different things
that you can do. And so when you're visiting these islands, all these workers and these
people in this tourist industry that live somewhere.
And, you know, going to where they live and going to the normal parts of the city, you're
going to have great opportunities to still preach the gospel and those people are going
to be receptive.
But these tourist parts of the island, you know, you may not really be that evangelistic.
There might not be very many opportunities there.
You kind of have to just...
Get outside of that part of the area, but especially if you're in a city that's already filled with tourism
It's still going to be generally pretty safe and people are going to still kind of like be friendly towards you and
Want to talk to you and that's even sometimes an advantage because if they see you know
You're on the Bahamas you're in these places you're white
You're going to stick out like a sore thumb when you're not in a tourist area and yet they're going to realize you're a tourist
and they're going to want to talk to you or be nice and you know you just take
advantage, it's that white privilege that you have when you're out there,
take advantage of it and you know say hey I'm a missionary from America,
we're here preaching the gospel, you know for people that don't have a church
If you don't even have material, reach out to Faith Ward Baptist Church, reach out to us,
and we'll send you those movie tickets for the preserved Bible.
We'll send you cards or whatever if you just want to have something to be able to hand out on your mission trip.
Just say, hey, I'm going to the Bahamas or I'm going wherever I'm going on this trip.
I would like to have some material to be able to hand out.
Send us your address and we'll just mail you.
material and you can use that as an icebreaker because when you don't have an icebreaker, it can be awkward.
So, you know, or if you have a local church, you can obviously take some of their information if they have it.
But if you just like having the movie tickets or something like that, reach out and that makes it a lot easier.
That's what we're gonna do is we're gonna take a bunch of the preserved Bible movie tickets
with us when we go on our missions trips.
So I don't know what kind of material the user you use when you're out in a foreign country.
Yeah, so I typically just you know, we'll do like the YouTube card or whatever
You gotta come in our face. We can't see it. There we go. Yeah. Yeah
So, yeah, we just just do like a little YouTube card or something and I just walk up and say like oh
Hey, just want to give you this
Card from our church. Are you a Christian or just or I'll just say hey, are you Christian? Here's some Christian videos
I'd like to show you or whatever, you know, so you just give them the card and that's the icebreaker
then and then and then from there it's just hey you go to church you know for
sure if you died you'd go to heaven it's just like normal soul winning at that
point so yeah I just I just lead with the card and then another thing that we
did is when we were talking to teenagers is we would also give them
stickers from our church too so I don't know if I have one of the stickers here
But like we would these were popular among like kids and teenagers and stuff, too
So we'd be like hey, can I you know, let me give you a sticker for my church and something and then we'd give them the gospel
We also have these in their their sticker QR codes that we just put in our Bible and then you know
It's a great opportunity because you can just say like hey if you want to watch this thing you can just scan this real quick and so
If you want those, you know, you could always
ask our church and we could send you some stickers that you just put in your Bible as a QR code
and then you can just have people scan that when you're out soul winning and it's kind of a great
opportunity because you're right people like stickers and people like QR codes and they like
these little these little things and so handing them out are really pretty popular in these areas
and it kind of just helps as a nice icebreaker getting people interested so yeah and here's the
who want I mean how much does it really cost to even get business cards made don't you get like
a thousand business cards for like 10 bucks or something online or something I mean they're
they're kind of cheap right I mean so honestly people could even just make their own business
cards if they wanted to just with you know with a QR code to whatever they want and
They could design their own little cards to hand out with whatever information they want to give out, but it's it's easy because they're not bulky like a little stack of these business cards.
I mean, if you think about it like it's taking up so little room in your luggage, right, you know, you could have hundreds of these and take up like no space in your luggage and it's just super easy to have a pocket full of those.
You know and just go soul-winning so I you know another thing that I would say as far as a tip for like looking for cruises is
You know for most of the ones that are gonna hit the Caribbean leave from Florida
Maybe other East Coast sports, but the lion's share of it's all coming out of Florida
So, I mean, man, people who live in Florida, this is super easy for them, they don't even
have to fly anywhere.
If you live in Orlando or Miami, man, you could go on these cruises so easily.
And by the way, sometimes, you know, last minute deals pop up because I actually booked
a cruise that I'm going to be doing in January.
And it was 356 bucks for two people for the whole week.
So basically like we literally paid and my teenage daughter is going to go with me and she because she's a talker out soul winning and she's had about eight people saved so far.
So she really wants to go to do like some receptive soul winning because Phoenix isn't really necessarily that receptive all the time.
So she really wanted to, you know, go somewhere more receptive and I booked this cruise for me and her and it was 356 bucks for both of us after tax and it's a four night cruise so we're gonna be on the ship for five days and all you can eat food for five days lodging for four nights
Go into a couple ports in the Bahamas and it's 356 bucks for two people. I mean, that's like that's like 100 and it was at $178 per person.
For a whole week. I mean, you're never going to beat that. And so little deals like that do pop up. Like I said, most people should expect to pay around five to 600 bucks in general.
And then you can ask about tips though. You have to pay that too, right?
Yeah, so we here's the thing you don't have to you could just be a Jew and just like not tip anyone like that is an option
I you know personally I like to give the tips and everything
I feel like it's a good way to to help the poor because obviously these are poor working people and so might as well
Be generous with them. So when I went on the Carnival cruise, you just like prepaid the tips
For the whole week if you wanted to and then you just don't have to tip anyone
And that's what we did we prepaid the tip. So it was like it was like a hundred and eighty bucks or something
So you like convert into a Jew?
Because then you don't have to do it. I'm just kidding
But basically here's the thing when I say when I say five to six hundred bucks
I'm including the prepaying of the tips. Oh, okay
I won't like for example on the on the Norwegian on the Norwegian Jade trip that brother say Gora is gonna be running
March 23rd
Like just buying the cruise itself is
Like five hundred and twenty five dollars a person after tax
So it's like a thousand and fifty bucks for two people after tax
But if you prepay the gratuities, then it's twelve fifty after tax which comes out to six hundred and twenty five dollars per person
So the six hundred and twenty five dollars per person you've already paid all your tips for the whole week
So you are really just six twenty five out the door
The 356 admittedly did not include tips, but it's just such a ridiculously low amount
of money.
I mean, you know, we could just afford the tips after that, you know, I was a steal.
Yeah.
So for, for basically for, for my and Rebecca's cruise tickets and our flights to Florida and
everything on that one.
Ended up being less than $1,100 for both of us. I mean but that but again, that's an anomaly
It's not normally gonna be that cheap
But you know what every once in a while those deals pop up especially for somebody who lives in Orlando or Miami
They can just kind of watch for those deals if they if they have a flexible job or flexible situation and
Jump on that kind of stuff, but it's you know, it's really cool. I mean, it's it's it's the cheapest
I feel like it's the cheapest way to do a missions trip and
I feel like I guess my biggest goal with this is to get some new blood involved because, you know,
maybe people in the past haven't signed up for a mission strip. But when they hear about this,
they're like, oh, you know, Cruz, I can do that. You know, maybe, maybe they feel more comfortable
with kind of the controlled environment. You know, the Cruz provides as far as like safety,
logistics, and just it's maybe cheaper and just plus a lot of building fun.
Yeah, and like, you know, everything's included practically.
I mean, yeah, there's some restaurant on the ship
where you can spend 50 bucks a meal or something.
Who needs that?
Like the food they're serving is good.
Unless you're just some weird snob,
like you don't really need the $50 meal.
It's totally unnecessary.
And then they're selling like massages for 150 bucks.
And obviously they're selling a bunch of booze and stuff.
But it's like, it's all crap that you don't need.
You know, everything that you want is included, like, I mean, water,
juice, lemonade, unlimited food, sell a soft serve ice cream, frozen yogurt
is all unlimited cheeseburgers.
Pizza, steaks, sandwiches.
When these ships are so big, do you feel like it's like, you know,
if what is someone's little nervous about like being seasick or just kind of that experience?
It seems like these being so big that it's pretty unlikely for most people, right?
I mean, I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie and say that you don't feel the ship moving.
Now, personally, for me, like, if I'd be a little disappointed if I didn't feel the
ship moving.
I mean, if I'm on a ship, I want to kind of feel like I'm on a ship.
I think it's a cool sensation, personally.
I think it's cool, you know, some people, like brother Kevin, you know, the one who came up with this idea,
he said that the ship that he was on, he felt almost nothing, like when he'd be sitting at dinner, he'd feel it a little bit,
but he said that he felt almost nothing. It probably has to do with like the weather and how the sea is that day and stuff like that.
When I was on the ship, you could definitely feel it. It wasn't annoying, it wasn't extreme, but you just kind of felt
A slight instability as you're like walking through the dining hall. You just you just felt a slight movement. I was I spent like an hour and a half in the gym every day and I'd be lifting weights in there. So you're definitely going to build those stabilizer muscles. You know, when you're when you're
When I was laying in bed at night,
I could definitely feel a gentle rocking.
Just kind of rock me to sleep, man.
There you go.
And so you felt it a little bit,
and like after I got home.
You feel it after the first few days at home. I felt like my house was rocking a little
You feel it didn't
It didn't bother me at all
Well, Stephen was rocked asleep in the Bible and so you know there you get rocked to sleep here on the cruise miss trip
That was different you can relate to me say like hey, you were rocked to sleep. I was rocked to sleep
You know so if people if people are prone to see sickness
Yeah, they might get seasick on something like this.
It's definitely a lot less rocking than a small boat.
I mean, obviously it's a giant ship,
so it's a very subtle effect, in my opinion.
That's not to say that you might not hit bad weather
or something and the thing is really start rocking.
But another thing I would recommend is like-
This sounds like almost like Flat Earth is true
because they said if the Earth's moving, we would feel it.
He says he's feeling the ship, so, you know.
I don't know.
Keep going.
I had, I also, I had the cheapest, I had the cheapest possible room on the cheapest possible cruise line.
And it was awesome.
Like, because I had the work, like, like some lady in the elevator kind of like flex on me at one point.
She saw me push the button for floor one, which is like the lower.
So he saw me push the button for floor one and she's just like well
She's like well the first floor. Oh, man. You probably really feel the rocket. Good luck with that
What do you what are you part of the crew or something? It's just like
But I'm like, okay, so I'm on the worst floor because there's like
11, it's like 11 stories of of lodgings. This is where you get the $350 cruises.
Yeah, so there was like there were like nine, ten, eleven stories to this thing, but even the even on floor one,
which is the bottom level, you're still like way above the waterline because it's like you said the things like a skyscraper.
Yeah, so like
even being on the first floor you're still like above the water we weren't in like a submarine
you know we're like above the water and then like apparently people claim that I guess you feel the
most rocking there I didn't notice any difference because when I was on the very top of the ship
versus in my room it felt identical to me but I'm just thinking to myself if this is the worst room
This is awesome because I expected it to be like a really tiny cramped room like really minimal
Just like a couple beds and you know, I just expected to be super minimal
But it wasn't it was just like a nice hotel room like you have we had two beds
We had a little bathroom. There were like closets to hang your clothes. There's like dressers and stuff
I mean it was it wasn't huge, but it was like
It was like bigger than my room at home
Well when you live in prison, no, I'm just kidding. Yeah, that's right. Some people might
You guys brought up the sickness which is a potential drawback for some if they have a propensity to
Feel seasick or whatever another thing some people might bring up and you brought this up in your video
Pastor Anderson they might say well cruising is wicked because there's a casino on the ship
they serve alcohol, but a good solution to that is don't go to the casino and don't order alcohol,
and then you won't commit that sin. There's casinos in this city right here, right? DFW.
There's not a casino here, but there's casinos in Texas. But there is alcohol every restaurant
virtually. I'm not going to leave Texas because there's a casino. There's a casino on the earth.
I'm not going to take a space shuttle and leave the earth because of casino on the earth. So
the activities that Christians should have no pardon, but there's actually
activities that everybody can enjoy that are
family-friendly and that you can have a good time with.
There was even a comedy show on the cruise that I went to that was 100% family-friendly.
All the jokes were totally clean and you could tell them in church and there's no
problem
and that was fun. No, I'm just kidding. Our church.
There's a lot of fun. They're clean enough or so dead fast. Okay. Some people though, they might have this view like, well, you know, there's a casino, I don't want to go. And in my mind, just don't go to the casino and you're fine. What do you guys think about that? Yeah, I think that I think that if anybody had a mentality of like, well, the atmosphere on the cruise ship is too sinful. They're probably just not going to be able to do any mission strips anyway, because going to these Caribbean towns.
is going to be a worse atmosphere than the ship.
I mean, obviously this world's a sinful place.
If you go to the Caribbean, if you're just walking through
these towns in Trinidad or the Bahamas or Guyana or whatever,
I mean, obviously you're gonna see the same exact stuff
that you're gonna see on the cruise.
So, I mean, really just going soul winning
exposes you to this world.
And so I did not find it to be a sinful atmosphere
whatsoever.
It was a very family atmosphere.
There were lots of kids on the ship.
And it was not a raunchy or seedy or sordid atmosphere whatsoever, you know.
And not only that, I forgot to mention this in my video, because some people's...
Concern because we talked about like the alcohol and the casino and stuff
Let you know you just you don't even have to set foot in the casino. You don't go there
You don't touch the alcohol
You stay away from any of the like little nightclub bar portions of the ship and they segregate that stuff because they don't want kids going there
Anyway, so those things are like you'd have to make a point to go to those places. Okay?
But one thing that I didn't bring up
that some people could be concerned about is like,
well, hey, is the ship just filled
with bikini babes or something, you know what I mean?
Because obviously there's swimming pools on the ship
and stuff like that.
And it absolutely was not.
Because the first point I wanna make
is that about 80% of the people on the ship are obese.
Okay, let's just say it for what it is all you can eat buffet is not a bunch of thin people
It's a it's a floating all you can eat buffet. So like
This is their dream vacation. Okay. And so therefore like literally
75 to 80 percent of the people are obese. Yeah, okay
That's just a mirror
Yeah, I mean, but it's even more than the general population. Yeah
Okay, so it's just it's a lot of older people. It's a lot of obesity and
Here's the thing about the pools
They're pretty much empty
The whole time where it's because I was kind of shocked because we're on a ship with thousands of people
Yeah, I assumed that they would have like really big swimming pools or several swimming pools or something
And they just had like these two really small swimming pools
And I just thought like is this really gonna be able to service like 3,000 people
But it turned out it could because they were empty most of the time like most people on the cruise ship just frankly aren't swimming
Okay, and then they did have water slides
And yeah there you know kids and teenagers going down the water slides but even those weren't really getting used as much as i would have expected them.
Who have gotten used so they had like on the whole ship they had like four hot dogs to pools and a couple water slides and i was shocked by how little these things were used i mean it wasn't.
It wasn't really a big part of, I guess, what people are doing on the cruise ship.
And just, even if you're walking around the pool area and walking around the deck area,
like most people were fully dressed.
And so, yeah, obviously some people are going to be in a bathing suit or whatever,
but it wasn't like you're just surrounded by, you know, bikini babes or something.
That was not an issue.
So to summarize, they're all fat anyway, so it's no big deal.
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I mean, it sounds it sounds like it's safer than standing outside our church. Go ahead. Go ahead. That's not really what I meant
I meant was just like
People that are obese aren't typically
Wearing super revealing clothing unless you're on like a university campus or something, you know
And then and then for some reason 350 pound women are like, you know in short shorts and stuff
But I'm just saying like, you know, normally when people are
Super overweight, they're not getting naked
you know, they're wearing some clothes. And the point is that like...
You know, yeah, you're going to see stuff like that.
You're going to, if you walk down the street anywhere, you're going to see women that are
dressed inappropriately, just at a shopping mall or, you know, walking down the street.
I didn't feel like this was like an inordinate amount of just flesh on display whatsoever.
I mean, there was a lot of flesh on that ship.
Don't get me wrong.
If we were measuring by now.
But I'm just saying, as far as, like.
The temptation level was pretty low.
It wasn't like you're just,
it wasn't like you're just vexing your soul,
just looking at a bunch of temptation everywhere
and that's just a sinful stuff.
And as far as the entertainment,
They had like, you know, comedy shows that that were labeled like 18 plus or, you know, they obviously had stuff that was going to be inappropriate, like they had like theatrical plays and stuff.
And one of them seemed like it was going to be, I don't know if it was like Halloween themed or something, it seemed like it was going to be something, something, what?
I think it's always advertised they have wicked as one of the musicals.
I don't think that's what it was.
kind of gothic and dark and whatever but like I didn't I didn't even go to any of the performances
of any kind as far as like I didn't do any of the theater but some of them seemed like they were
family friendly like wholesome type things I didn't go to any of them but I did attend like
some of these musical performances that they had where they had like string quartets and stuff
So, and it was kind of like, there were certain venues in the ship that would feature certain
kinds of things.
Like there was this one venue that seemed like it was always...
having like a classy musical performance where they have like string quartet stuff and it's all these like people just kind of like
Civilized people like sitting around listening to it and stuff whereas like obviously you have these other more like party oriented
Hearts of the ship or whatever. So it's you know, it's just like anything else
I mean you can easily go on this thing and walk with God
Read your Bible pray
have a wholesome time, and I did not feel like anything was leading me into sin whatsoever.
You know, I felt, you know, just as close to God or closer to God.
I wasn't, you know, because this could be a concern that some people could have like,
oh, you know, I don't want to get in this really sinful atmosphere.
You know, I don't think it's a sinful atmosphere.
If you're super duper sensitive to stuff like that, you're probably not even cut out for any mission strip
There's going to be worldly stuff when you go to these to these Caribbean places
So I want to pull it up on the screen if you go to faithful word Baptist org and you go to their website on the events tab
They've got one of their missions trips lined up
I saw some people in the chat saying they wanted to see the dates again because they really like the idea of going when other people are going and
So here's one that you can put on the calendar if you're interested March 23rd to the 28th
Brother Chris Agura from Faith Ward is going to be help leading this also
It's Norwegian Jade just to make sure people get on the right cruise
It's the 23rd, the 28th, it's Norwegian Jade is the cruise.
If you get on that ship on that day,
it's four stops in the Bahamas.
And yeah, Brother Sigour is a great guy
for those who don't know him.
Super cool guy to hang out with
and there'll be a lot of other cool people
from our church on that trip.
And so the fellowship's gonna be awesome.
I also want to highlight there is one that our church is going to be doing with
our evangelist Tanner Furr and it's actually Royal Caribbean so it's a
seven-day they're going to be going to Nassau, St. Thomas,
St. John's it's seven days right now it's still about it's nine hundred and twenty
six dollars per person for this one's a little more expensive I've seen Royal
Caribbean's a pretty great cruise line so if you're interested and if you are
interested in either of those just email our church say hey I want to go on this
can you give me whatever more information you may or may not need and
then also
There's probably gonna be a few other ones in the future, but those are just ones that are kind of right here on the surface
I've seen for November. There's some other ones that looked pretty good and stuff too, but I'm kind of kind of wait
We'll probably give an update after this particular trip and make a video about it and kind of talk about our experiences on these islands and
Just some recommendations that we had
I'm gonna be going on one and and and
Kind of get my idea of what it's like as well. And so also I do want to announce a few other events though
We mentioned a couple of conferences
This upcoming January 11th
I'm gonna be in Houston, Texas, and we're having a soul-warning marathon at Springcrest Baptist Church with Pastor Enrique Reyes
And so he's been a friend of mine for a long time
And if you live anywhere in Texas or Louisiana or the surrounding area and you'd like to go
soulning with us, we're going to be meeting at Springcrest Baptist Church January 11th,
9am. We're going to be going out for a couple hours, have lunch there and then go out again
for another couple hours. We're even going to have a fellowship event. And so I'm really
encouraging people to come out here and visit Springcrest Baptist Church. They have a really
nice church building and it can accommodate a couple hundred people and I'm going to be
for the weekend. We would love to have you visit. This would be a great time to visit Pastor Reyes,
his church, and do some extra soul winning and just kind of visit their church that's there.
Also, we're doing a missions trip to Mexico again this year. February 6th through the 8th,
we're going to be going to Reyonosa. This is right on the border of McCallan. So we usually
Very accept is about a million people that live in the in the metro area of
Renosa and there's some great places to eat and honestly the soul-winning as
soon as you cross the border for some reason it's just so much more receptive
in Mexico. Now you do have to speak Spanish though just because you know
virtually no one there is going to speak English and not English well enough to
really communicate so but if you can speak Spanish these are great trips to go
March 12th, we're having our evangelist in the Philippines.
He's gonna come back to the United States
and he's gonna be preaching for us.
So he's gonna be visiting for a couple weeks,
I guess furlough, you know, as they refer this.
And he did a great, great work in the Philippines.
He gave me a newsletter.
I'm gonna be reading it for our church this evening,
but I wanna see if I can pull up that number again.
I think he had, he had over 3,000 salvations.
four
2024. And he wasn't there for the entire year. He was only there for part of 2024.
And okay, so he had 3,420 salvations, 16 baptisms. And so, and he had trained a couple other soul
winners out there. That's just from part of the year. So if you've supported the Vangels or Bannock
or given money to him, thank you so much. And you can continue to support him by donating to
of his salary and are kind of supporting his missions, work that's going on in the Philippines.
He's helping Pastor Matthew Stuckey with his church, which is Verity Baptist Church.
It's the same name as ascending church that's in California with Pastor Menes,
but he has the same name, but he has his own independent church in the Philippines,
and they run multiple satellites as well. But Evangelist Hispanics helped their church some.
Yes, I was a little confused about that because like
because I because Pastor Stuckey got ordained and is independent, right?
Yes. But he just has the same name.
I saw that it was called Verity, and I was like, huh.
But so what it is, they just kept the name.
Yes. That it's a separate church.
Yep. So he's he's his own.
Warsaw. So it's Warsaw.
Poland is under Pastor Stuckey or Pastor.
Yes. Yeah.
But it's actually a church plant from Pastor Stuckey.
So the individual that was.
uh, sent out was going to his church in Manila in the Philippines.
And then he ended up sending him out into Europe, into Poland.
And so it's a church plant of pastor Stuckeys.
Um, additionally, he has like a few other church areas, church plant areas
that meet maybe once a month that are kind of outside of Manila, just
because Manila is just so big.
And then I, I.
I can't, I can't keep up so he may have a few other things. I know they got a newer building recently, but they're kind of
in the southeast portion of the Manila Metro in a separate town. They're all little towns out there and
evangelists
Urbanic is kind of in the Tanai area where they're looking to maybe start another church
plant ID out there and then he's just been traveling to Verity and helping them with
some of the preaching and just doing some soul-inning there.
But then he's been doing a lot of soul-inning in his area and trying to train people.
We've had some events out there.
So we're excited to have him back and tell us about what's been going on over there.
We have a lot of soul-winning mission trips. They're gonna be in Texas. We have Mansfield right before Easter
We're gonna be doing one in Oklahoma Drant, Oklahoma where we're going to be partnering up with anchor Baptist Church
Shreveport, Louisiana June 28th
You can't emphasize Shreveport enough because from a United States perspective, I think and almost everybody agrees with me
Shreveport is one of the most receptive places you can go soul-winning in the United States
It almost feels like you're going to one of these Caribbean islands and it's just I remember looking it up in the Times Pass
It's one of the poorest cities in the United States and it's it's honestly
Great soul-winning. It's a it's a great time. I think you've gone out there with us, right brother Ben
Yeah, it's majority black.
So that's receptive usually and I mean it was pretty receptive for you when you were out there, right?
Very receptive. Absolutely. I can echo that sentiment. We've always had really big
numbers as far as just how many people are getting saved and
We usually have a large group go out there
There's a couple there's a church out there in Louisiana that usually comes and joins us for that event
And so it's it's really a great event
Lancaster is actually right next to our church and it's also it's 64%
black. And so I'm really excited to go and just do like specifically here in Lancaster.
That's all I need to hear. Yeah. I mean, it's receptive, you know,
Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship. I already mentioned that. Tyler, Texas, September 27th.
And then here's the big one. We're going back to the Bahamas in 2025. And so many people have asked
me about this.
and I just, you know, there's gonna be a lot of people going just, you know, on one day for
these cruises, so I hope they get their appetite, you know, nice and hungry for this. But we're
gonna be there for the entire week. We have a contact there. Hopefully, you know, God willing,
we're gonna be able to get into lots of schools again. We're gonna be emphasizing going to the
college areas. And, you know, the Bahamas is about
250,000 population as far as Nassau specifically.
So Nassau is the main island that we're gonna be on
and it has about 250,000 locals.
Plus I think it's about 400,000 people
that are typically on the island at a time
due to all the tourism.
But there's tons of people still
that we can reach with the gospel.
It's one of the most receptive areas
I've ever been soul winning.
The English there is great.
The people there are really nice.
And of course, you know, obviously you still have to do the work, but as far as going out
soul winning, it's been one of the best experiences I've ever had. I've been there multiple times.
We did a whole trip a couple years ago, two years ago. And I think we had, we had about 60 soul
winners. So it was one of the largest mission strips I think I've ever heard of, as far as from
the new IP perspective. We had about 60 people out there. And we had close to like seven or 800
We're one-on-one plus we had a lot of people in the schools that we believe also got saved through confirmation of like them writing down the answers
But we didn't count that part of that just just the one-on-one that we confirmed was about seven eight hundred people
And I think that when we go back we may even get close to a thousand this time if you are wanting to participate
about it that you did, the soul-winning Mades,
yeah, we just re-uploaded that to our Rumble account
because I went to look for it a couple of weeks ago
because I was trying to get people all pumped up
about the Bahamas and everything.
And,
And I couldn't find that sermon anywhere online except just audio. I couldn't find the video
So I had brother say Gora reupload that to rumble and everything because it was it was it was just like a missing sermon for
I also I also put a thousand people listen to it
What's that? I also put up a recap video
I think it's maybe 10 minutes long with highlights and music and things like that if people it's on your bad
I've been the Baptist on it's on been the Baptist
YouTube channel if you want to see a recap video of the last Bahamas trip that we did
Which was a blast lots of fun
And you got you got a lot of video B-roll of like the schools and all the kids and everything like yeah
There's there's school footage
of us preaching in the courtyards and in in the schools and we went into the classrooms as well.
First ever mission trip I did and really like a life changing trip. I had so much fun.
And I mean the beach, the beach there, I'm not saying there isn't better beaches,
but it's one of the best beaches I've ever seen. Incredible. It's really, we had one day where we
and so I mean if you are planning if you want to go basically the way I'm going to be structuring
this is our church is going to provide some of the lodging and if if you are an adult talker adult
And this is just at a minimum, but at least the first 40 people that email us their flight
itinerary, we will secure lodging for them.
So we've already secured lodging.
And so if you want to travel there with your family, we don't want to discourage you.
It's just the church lodging is going to be limited to just those adult soul winners because
we want to maximize the amount of soul winning that we're going to have for this particular
trip since we're using some of the church money.
So if you want to still go, we would love for you to come and join us, but as far as just church,
some of the church lodging, we're going to limit that to basically the first 40 or 50 people that
send us their itineraries, adult soul winners that want to go on this particular trip.
And so that's just a, that's an extra opportunity
You can always go to the Bahamas whenever you want Bahamas can be a little expensive and generally speaking
That's why you know these these cruise mission trips are such a great option because like Pastor Anderson saying you could go for
700 800 maybe a thousand dollars
Whereas taking a whole trip to one of these islands for a week could cost you more
$1,800
And you don't have to even you don't have to spend a dime you could eat you could only eat the food off the cruise ship
Right whereas we were in Turks because
My son and I like when we were on Turks and Caicos we we did like hit a convenience store
like several hours in like we didn't even need to though like we could have just pushed through
but we literally just bought two little bags of popcorn two Snickers bars two bottles of water
and two Gatorades and the entire tab for both of us was $12.50 and that was literally the only
$12.50 and it was a luxury, but I do want to kind of comment on the financial
aspect because you know, there's gonna be all these little whiners out there like oh, you know
You know you're using the church's money to go on these trips or whatever, you know
And I'm but I just want to say this like
The more people, I'm just gonna come out and say it,
the more people donate to Faith Forward Baptist Church,
like any extra money we have is gonna be spent
like putting people on the mission field.
So if we have extra money in 2025, that's where it's going.
Like just if people donate to our church,
it's gonna go to buying people's flights,
buying their lodging,
Getting people on the mission field because frankly if I were donating to a church
That's exactly where I would want my money to be going to an actual real soul winning because for every couple hundred bucks that somebody
Donates to our church that's translating into a
Bunch of souls saved on a foreign mission field, you know
I'd rather see my money go toward that than just building giant ivory palaces and stained glass windows and
All the other things that people can spend money on here's the thing
And the way that we're sponsoring people at our church is, you know, everybody's buying
their own cruises.
Like everybody buys the cruise themselves, but we're like helping people with like the
airline tickets to Florida or something, you know what I mean?
Just to kind of help get them there or whatever.
And the reason we're doing that is because frankly, if we can subsidize it a little bit,
more people will go if we can help out financially, or instead of going once, they'll go twice.
And here's the thing, if we can get people out on the mission field, if I go out to the mission
field, if you go out to the mission field, like, we're going to get people saved, right? We're
not these lame missionaries from the old IFB that just fart around and get nothing done. Like, we
go there and preach the gospel and get a bunch of super clearly, we get a bunch of people saved. And
so like,
Yeah, we're gonna spend a lot of money on this we we've always spent a lot of money on every single year of our church's existence
We're spending money on Indian reservation trips
small-town trips
Missions trips and it results in thousands of salvations and so like I you know, maybe somebody at home is thinking like oh
I don't want to I don't want my money to go to you know these foreign mission strips
Well, then don't donate to faith the word because if you donate to faith the word
It's going toward foreign missions, well, it's not sending it to some guy that we know nothing about right. It's going to be our legit bonafide soul winners that we know and hang out with every week that we know are good at it, and we're all going to go there, we're going to get hundreds and even thousands of people saved.
And so, you know, obviously the little do nothing winers, and you know, you got on a cruise, like they think it's like bad that it's going to be fun.
But here's the thing, if we could do two mission strips, and they're both going to cost the same amount of money,
and they're both going to result in a similar number of salvations,
and then one of them just happens to be super fun every night on the cruise ship, or super fun to enjoy,
like, there's nothing wrong with enjoying it and having fun. In fact,
If people enjoy it and have fun, they'll probably come back and do it again, and again and again and again.
And so, yeah, we're not trying to like whip ourselves and live in some kind of a cloister here, you know?
Like, we want to have fun and enjoy.
And if we can do serious work and enjoy at the same time, it's a win-win.
Obviously, there'd be a problem if we were just...
Taking these cruises or something or just going to these mission fields and just laying on the beach or something or like not doing a real amount of work
But it's like we're gonna be pushing ourselves on these trips. We you know, we're gonna be
Winning a lot of people to Christ and so like it's a great bang for the buck and so the fact that the cruise ship is cheaper
You know is a bonus and the fact that it's also super fun is a bonus
you know because hey guess what if you serve God God will allow you to have a lot of fun
like God blesses us he our cup runneth over you know he uh he prepares a table before us
in the presence of our enemies and and you know
There's nothing wrong with having a good time. Well, I was thinking about starting a new program if people donate to steadfast
We're thinking about sending a guy
Jose Martinez to Israel for seven years to learn the language and
We're hoping that after about seven or eight years that Martinez will be able to reach some of the locals
there and so you should really consider and if you donate we'll send you an Israel flag.
in the mail that you can have.
Now, I mean, it's kind of silly to criticize
how our church does mission strips
when you can figure out like how other people
are spending their money
and how a lot of these missionaries,
I mean, it's just kind of sad.
When you, I mean, I've seen the newsletters,
I get emailed the newsletters.
I don't go to the old IFB.
The old IFB emails me the newsletters all the time.
I think it's because I'm in the DFW area, so like they're always coming here on furlough because there's so many churches here, but for some reason, I get emailed, I think everybody gets them.
I don't know, I get emailed so many and you just read them and they're just like.
Yeah, you know, we slept we swept the floor this week and you know
There's this one guy that I ran into at the store. Hopefully I'll run into him in the store again
And I'm thinking like people are literally sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to these people from these churches
And their newsletter is not like what I said with evangelist urbanic
I mean, Evangelist of Bannock said he got like 3,400 people saved just last year alone and that wasn't even the full year and
I mean, that's a major. He he did better than our entire church. Like he by himself
Beat our entire church for the year
So like that makes sense and I guarantee that the works that are gonna be accomplished on these cruise missions trips
Is gonna be a staggering number, you know, and so I'm excited about it
And I don't think that, you know, when you stand before the judgment seat of Christ
and you're going to get rewarded, Christ is like, you enjoyed this salvation a little too much.
So, you know, no, no reward for you. Like it doesn't really, you don't have to be like sad
and upset when you give someone the gospel. Like you can still have a little bit of enjoyment.
You know, you can have the joy of the Lord when you go out and preach the gospel.
And so I'm, I am not, I am not against having fun.
while also going on these missions trips because
You know, admittedly, sometimes traveling, being away,
you could either get a little sick,
or you could be homesick,
or there could be some negative things,
and we wanna try to balance that out
with some of the fun and joy and have a good time.
So you're encouraged to do this for your life.
We want you to be a lifetime evangelist,
not a lifestyle evangelist, a lifetime evangelist,
where you're always going out and preaching the gospel,
and you wanna go on missions trips
for the rest of your life.
and be like the Apostle Paul.
Apostle Paul goes on multiple missions trips,
multiple areas.
His experience was different than the cruise.
I get it.
He's probably looking down from heaven like,
they get to go on cruises, but you know.
Yeah, you bring up a great point about how
there's some negatives about going on these trips
because like, I know for me personally,
a lot of mission strips I went on,
I was kind of more doing it out of a sense of duty.
Than enjoyment because like honestly, I kind of just couldn't wait to get home and they were kind of a look some of them
We're a little bit of a drag. I'm not gonna lie like I mean obviously there are fun times and you're getting a lot of people
Save but some of them were a little bit a brutal or just a little bit difficult and you're you know
We're staying in some really like
rough conditions and stuff
and just kind of, you know,
enduring some hardships on these things.
So if there's a way to do it
to make it a little more enjoyable,
then even I'm gonna go more.
Because frankly, you know,
I had kind of gotten burned out
on some of these mission strips
just because it's like,
I kind of want to be at home in my own bed and stuff,
you know, and just doing soul winning in Arizona.
But yeah, I mean,
Making it making it nicer is just gonna help all of us. Yeah, no two trips are the same
I mean, you know, I went to the Jamaica missions trip
a long time ago, this is one of those faithful work, maybe in 2018 or something like that.
And it was definitely a lot more of an enduring missions trip than some of the other ones.
But we got a ton of people saved and I really liked it.
But for some people, you could kind of tell like maybe they might not want to come back
or do another missions trip because that experience wasn't as maybe as enjoyable.
And it's not so much that.
You can't always predict these things.
Sometimes it's going to be better than other times.
Some islands are going to be better than other islands and stuff.
But like, I'm just being honest with you, the Bahamas mission
trip was not only receptive, it was fun.
And I believe that with these cruise mission strips, for some people
that even want to make it even a little bit more fun or a little bit more,
just, you know, just comfortable, it's probably going to be your best bet.
It's probably going to be the easiest type of missions that you can do.
and yet you still have a great opportunity and what's cool is especially the Caribbean areas,
these are very receptive areas. So, you know, you're going to have a great opportunity to get
people saved. And if you live, you know, not everybody's blessed to live in Texas. We live
in Texas where the soul one is very receptive. But I know I visited other parts of the country,
places like Washington or places in the north and some other areas that or Canada, you know,
it's just maybe not as receptive or Australia.
or some of these other areas where maybe it's just not as receptive. But you go to Fiji.
You know, there's cruise restriction strips out there and that part of the world too.
Fiji is very receptive. You go to the Caribbean, very receptive.
You know, so, you know, take opportunity here and say, hey, I just want to save up a thousand bucks,
go on a mission strip, and you might end up getting more people saved and one week
than you would the whole year in your area just because of the receptivity factor. So, you know,
I'm really looking forward to 2025.
We're gonna go really hard on missions trips
and we're the same way, you know,
if Seth Vass was blessed with more money,
you know, we'd like to spend it on more missions
or more events and more trips
and send more people out there.
So we are already blessed.
We have tons of money coming in
and we're gonna try and use that to its fullest,
but I'm very excited for it.
2025. Another comment on the financial aspect is like if you take the original cruise ship that
Brother Kevin and Co went on, you know, they paid for it all themselves. It was just some
that they organized. It wasn't even through our church. It was just five people. And that's why
I'm saying people could do this in any church. You know, they happened to go to faithful word,
but they could have really been anybody anywhere. And they put this thing together. They spent out
for the whole trip, for all five of them, five grand.
That's about what they spent for everything, okay?
And they had 89 saved,
which that comes out to roughly like $55 a salvation.
You know, and I'm just thinking about, you know, coming up in the old IFB and being a young adult and donating to missions, you know, when I was younger, and I would love, I would have loved to, you know, drop 550 bucks in the plate and think like, okay, this is, you know, translating to, like, making 10 salvations possible in a foreign country.
right like I mean imagine that like every 55 bucks I'm throwing in the plate is like another
salvation I like to me that would have been incredible because I was I was supporting
you know a lot of guys that are like that uh you know Israel guy that you were talking about
you know and obviously there were good missionaries we were supporting as well but there were probably
a lot of that money was kind of going down the drain if you think about it right um compare
I'm not I wasn't even thinking about it that way but if I think about like the money we spend on
and it's Salvation's it's like $13 Salvation or something like that so like that guy is just like killing it
You know as far as like a monetary ratio, but I'm actually planning on doing that this year
It's like we're gonna really think about like we're gonna we have all these so many missions trips all these foreign things
I'm gonna like calculate like kind of roughly like what was the cost per Salvation just to get a kind of idea of like
What's the most economical?
stuff and and really consider that because I I think that that's kind of an interesting thing
and you know why not why not try to put your money in the best places possible the best
investments possible because to me the soul's a soul and of course uh the cheapest the cheapest of all
Is just going soul winning where you live. Yeah, that causes like zero dollars exactly. Just go do it
But I mean obviously want to do stuff all over the world as well
And it's not as receptive like I just went I went soul winning today earlier
And it was spent like an hour and you know got no one saved
But so I'm still this is where I'm still at right now. All right, and I'm gonna you're like a lot of but I did
Well, because I went I went like half mile from my house or something
I went like just right down the street from my house and
I had but I did get to give the gospel all the way through to a guy and
And he said at the end of it. He said well, he said I'm 50 years old and so it's just it's good
You know, I've kind of been taught this my whole life
Like but he was kind of acknowledging that what I was saying seemed right and biblical
But he'd been raised Pentecostal
Sure, and so he had a Pentecostal view of losing your salvation and that you know, but then once he saw.
What I was showing him you could tell like I thought the guy was gonna get saved because he was so
Impacted by he was just seeing it. It was like clicking with him. He's like, oh, wow. Yeah, but then he's like well
I'm 50 years old though, and I've kind of been taught swim. Oh, I said so I said, oh, sir
You like too old to change on this doctrine. He's like, no, no, I'm not too old to change
He's like, I just don't know if I'm gonna do it right here on the spot. Sure. I just need to like
Think about it because I've been taught this for so long. So hopefully the guy will get saved but
You know you spend an hour you spend an hour in some of these Caribbean places, and it's like yeah
You're gonna get a couple of salvations if you're
If you're especially if you're talking to young people, you know, it's just it's like it's it's well
It's like your sermon and you're we re-uploaded your sermon
It got like it got like another 2700 views between the two places we uploaded it on rumble
There we go, you know nice rerun
Well, hopefully we inspired somebody to do some more missions this year. That was the point of the show
We're gonna we're gonna have a couple other episodes
We're gonna have one next Tuesday night
Special guest is gonna be coming on and then the following Monday
We're gonna have another special guest and so we're gonna have a couple
Baptist bias episodes for the year. Thanks so much for coming on Pastor Anderson
Was there anything else you wanted to ask him brother Ben before we kind of sign off here?
What do you guys think about the possibility,
and we could do this quick,
because then we're winding down,
but what if we got a couple of pastors on a cruise ship?
Two, three, maybe four.
and you coupled a mission trip with,
if it's possible to rent out a conference room,
maybe you do like a conference on the seas someday
or something like that.
What do you think about that?
So it was a celebrity cruise.
That's okay.
Yeah.
I think that'd be kind of fun.
I mean, I think it's a really cool idea.
It would be a great idea to do like a,
like a conference that's like a move,
a conference that's moving, you know,
It could be really cool just a thought and binds like soul winning
Soul winning by day preaching by night or something cruise ship. I don't know if church plant
Yeah, we're just gonna plant a church on the cruise ship
Do you think those live on the cruise ship? Let us have the new yeah, what were you gonna say?
You don't think that you were gonna say something you don't think the cruise ship would what?
Well, I just don't think that there's an opportunity to rent out. Yeah, like a
Preaching hall on the ship like because that you know, they have like their different entertainers in different rooms
I'm not sure if there's an opportunity, but there could be maybe maybe there's a way to
Because if you because I'm sure that there are like corporate events that they probably do on these
So there probably is a way to do it Ben. I mean, I'm not
Maybe they'll just sign us up.
We can have the new IB can be a bit
and we're just always preach.
Like we just have a preaching event on these crews.
Like maybe we can partner with Carnival or something.
And you know.
We're just gonna be one of the entertainment.
Yeah, exactly.
New IB preaching while you're cruising.
I wouldn't hold your breath on that.
happening but church plan I mean no but I think I think Ben's idea could
seriously work because I'm sure that just like you go to a hotel you rent a
little conference room that's what I was thinking probably are corporate events
where they rent out a room on the ship and we could probably you know
theoretically set something like that up but but either way I mean even without
that just if you just went on a cruise with like 20 or 30 other new IFP people
There's going to be so much preaching at that dinner table anyway, just, you know what I mean, if it realistically.
I mean, I mean, I, I preach to my family every day, like everybody just preaches to each other in this movement.
I mean, that's just kind of who we are.
So we're just going to preach at each other the whole time.
Oh, man.
Face rippers, I'm sure.
He said he said I when he's he's wanting a sermon idea. I give him like 50 and he likes like one of them, so
I'll just I'll just give him like at least he liked one
Yeah, be happy about the one that he liked it's probably and it's probably not even my idea
It's just like it triggered a different idea that he ended up being able to use so
Yeah, but admittedly you were giving me all your leftover crap that you didn't want to preach because it was it was all you're like rejected because we give each other a reject because we have well we come up with these long lists of preaching ideas and we preach all the good ones.
And there's just all the junk that's left and then at the end of the year, I'm like, oh, here, Pastor Shelley, here's all my junk and he's like, oh, here's my junk.
And then like, yeah, so we find, I find like two out of 50 that are usable, but you didn't think they were usable either.
That's why you gave them to me.
Exactly.
This is where we get our marching orders.
We give each other our trash.
So I don't want to preach this.
You preach it, you know, like, here you go.
No, I'm just kidding.
I dare you to preach this.
Yeah.
Oh man.
That's funny.
Yeah.
Unfortunately for the haters, I've never been told what to preach by Pastor Anderson.
So, um, but.
Sure, there's always there's always a there's always time for to do so in the future
Hey, the closest thing to me ever telling him what to preach was that when he was a member at faithful word and preaching in one of our
Ministries, I had to like put a cap on the length of his service because it was getting out of control
I don't believe that Master Shelley. No, I was definitely true that cannot be true
He's like you can only preach for an hour and I was just like, okay
There was like one time where I had to abruptly end the sermon. I'll admit. I
was just kind of like I was just kind of preaching and I'm thinking like I need
to just finish so just like land the plane. But it is what it is. I preached
too long, but you know.
Where else do we have to be on a Sunday morning anyway? All right, just just go for it. I guess yeah
That should prove that I'm not under his authority anymore. Just look at the how long my sermons are
Yeah, because if it was under my authority, he'd still be under that 60 minute cap the 60 minute cap
We know he's not doing that. He's he's got a double portion. Oh
I like how I read hot that one year
I get done and I'm preaching before pastor Anderson
He I have to give him the mic so I'm like handing him the mic and he's like I enjoyed both of your sermons
I was like, what do you mean?
And then the next year, Pastor Emanus gets up and says,
hey, you know, that was a really good series
that was preached by Pastor Shelley tonight.
Oh, man, I guess I got my money's worth, so.
All right. Well, thanks again for coming on we I really look it forward to 2025 and hearing more about the missions trips and
hopefully that zero turns into a one pretty soon and
We're gonna we're gonna be doing some soul winning tonight our church
So hopefully we can get started on our our counter as well
But that's pretty much gonna do it for us again tune in next Tuesday
I want to make sure to get that exact date. I think it's January 7th.
7th, yes, you got it right.
January 7th and then January 13th. So we're going to have a couple special episodes,
bab this bias. You want to tune in live. We may take in Collins. We always, of course,
appreciate the chat. We had several people in the chat, Springcrest 1611. Thanks so much for
tuning in. I have one last thing I want to say.
We'll let you say it, but I want to shout out to some of our chat real quick. So shout out to Pastor Reyes for tuning in
We've got brother Joe's Jay stew. We've got Rosemary Heim in the chat. Thanks so much
She said I think the cruise is such a good idea
Of course for the salvation opportunities and for the brethren that saw one constantly to go super receptive venues
It's so uplifting
We also have Jade and M. Happy New Year. God bless
We've got Adele Lyles who says the backbiders would go nuts.
I think it's Adele, like the singer.
Adele? Or is Adele a? I don't know.
Is it? Okay, new IFB we've got in the chat.
King James, we've got WRLATX.
He says Israel first missions is a real thing.
It's crazy.
That is kind of crazy.
We've got the Miss King in the chat. So we got lots of people in the chat. Thanks so much for tuning in live
I know as a special show just out of nowhere, but appreciate our audience for tuning in
we had over 120 people in the stream and I expect our evening shows will probably have even more
Says no, it's a Della. Yeah, there we go. Okay. Thank you. Thanks for the correction
What did you want to say before we sign off? I've been sitting on this for a while. I thought it was a good show
Even though Pastor Shelly, I did think that your flat earth joke fell flat, but it's okay.
Well, they can even see the 24-hour sun in Antarctica.
They got a free trip to Antarctica to watch the 24-hour sun and they still think it's flat folks.
So, you know, nothing's gonna convince those individuals.
I always said, I said, if you took them out in a spacecraft and they saw the Earth,
they would say it was like the window is CGI or something.
Can flat earthers go on any of these cruise mission trips?
Yeah, you could be a flat earther and you could you could go on the ship and you could still get people saved.
But you may get rebuked.
What's crazy is a flat earther is still smarter than an atheist.
It's funny that atheists make fun of the flat earthers, but there's some flat earthers
that are saved and they're going to go to heaven.
They'll be disappointed as they ascend up into heaven and they're like, oh wow, I was
wrong this whole time, but you can still be saved and we love the brethren even if they're
kind of dumb.
Come with the feeble minded.
Yeah, that's okay.
I'm not a I'm not really one of these people that's soft on the Flat Earth, you know, really? Yeah, I don't know if you know that
That's shocking. Thanks so much to our crew. Thanks everybody tune in. I think we might do it a t-shirt giveaway if you if you're live
Next episode
January 7th, we've got a special guest. We're gonna be talking about
Some some new topics and politics. What's going on in America? What's happening in 2025? It's gonna be spicy
I'm very excited God bless you guys. Thanks so much coming on the show because look everybody's got a perspective
But you need to get the Baptist bias