Mark's Notebook


	Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. - Proverbs 16:8

Harvest Crusade

Friday 20 October 2006, 4:16 pm
Keywords: Christian Topics , News Articles

We were in North Carolina last weekend visiting our son Matthew, who just returned from a seven-month tour in Iraq with the Marines. While we were away, Greg Laurie held the first-ever Harvest Crusade here in San Jose. The San Jose Mercury apparently did not run any articles after the fact, but I did find these other articles about the crusade.

Greg Laurie Embarks on Greater Silicon Valley Harvest Crusade

by Logan Mitchell, Christian Today, Saturday, October 14, 2006

Last night's crusade drew some 10,000 people, with 1,033 people making decisions to give their lives to Christ. 2,751 people joined the crusade via webcast.

This is the first time Harvest is hitting San Jose and only the second time the ministry held a crusade in northern California. Some 220 churches are working together to help bring Laurie's signature straightforward message of faith to the community.

Nearly ten years ago, “America’s pastor,” the Rev. Billy Graham, had visited the Bay Area at the invitation of local pastors. He held crusades in September and October of 1997 in San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, where thousands committed themselves to Christ.

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/greg.laurie.embarks.on.greater.silicon.val
ley.harvest.crusade/7977.htm

Greg Laurie Opens Crusade in a 'Pretty Secular Environment'

By Lillian Kwon, Christian Post Reporter, Sat, Oct. 14 2006

Preaching his well-known Harvest message for the first time in San Jose, Calif., Greg Laurie opened the way for 10,000 people Friday night in Silicon Valley - a region he had called a "pretty secular environment."

Laurie called them the "most responsive Friday night group" that he's ever had in any crusade with applause following the message of the gospel and laughter following his jokes. With a concerted effort of more than 270 churches, this is the first time the Harvest Crusade came to Silicon Valley where only 7 percent of the people attend church on a Sunday morning, which is far below the 25 percent seen in other communities, Laurie had noted. But he enjoys speaking to people who have no background in Christianity, he said in an interview with U.K.-based Christian Today.

The Harvest Crusades have visited 35 cities, 16 states and four different countries in the past 17 years. To date, the evangelistic events have seen more than 3.4 million people in attendance and over 276,000 public decisions for Christ.

http://www.christianpost.com/article/20061014/25230.htm