03.09.10
Baseball Outreach Update
Yesterday we helped to sponsor a Little League Baseball clinic in conjuction with the East Brewton Little League and the JDCC Baseball teams. The EB Little League hosted the event, the JDCC Baseball team under the leadership of Coach Darrell Blevins conducted the clinic, and Ridge Road Baptist Church provided a meal, distributed gospel goody bags, and had the opportunity to preach the gospel to the ballplayers and their parents. The clinic was broken down in to two parts by age, the first being the younger group of children ages 5-8, and the second group made up of 9-12 year olds. There was a tremendous turn out and a tremendous open door to preach the gospel to those in attendance. We got to preach to the 140 or so ballplayers that came out as well as many of their parents and coaches along with the whole JDCC Baseball team. Everyone was extremely attentive and the gospel message went forth with clarity. We were able to put a bag in to the hand of each ballplayer in which was deposited a John/Romans scripture portion, a sermon book on Christianity, a chick tract, an Easter invitation, some trading cards and a small toy. We had over twenty volunteers from Ridge Road on hand to support the effort. It was a great success and we thank God for the privilege to represent the Lord Jesus Christ in our community. Praise the Lord.
