It was a long, but productive week and amazingly the rain held off. In fact, it's been very hot, humid and dry--quite an uncomfortable combination.
However, the harvest this week was anything but dry--more than 750 people made professions of faith this week--most of them were high school students who heard the gospel presented in their classrooms.
We said goodbye to the team tonight after the final campaign. It's always bittersweet when it's time for them to return home.
We started a campaign on Saturday evening with a small group of 11 from Fresno and 2 regulars from Bakersfield. Although the sky looked very threatening, the evening was going fine until half way through the movie when it started to sprinkle. We stopped the movie, Pastor Steve preached a quick message, the team counseled those who made decisions and we left before the rain turned into a downpour. Since that night, we haven't seen anymore rain!
I celebrated my birthday on Sunday (not admitting to the "number) with church in the morning, lunch at my favorite Chinese restaurant and a campaign on Sunday night.
Here are a couple of pictures of from the week so far:
