In reading Greg's final report to you after I got home, I noted with great interest the way in which he framed his words to you.
I noted with great interest how he described the ministry of Billy Brewer one of our leading coaches and the manager of the Tarkenton Memorial Men's Softball Team. He told about Billy calling and asking how I was. He, himself, was suffering greatly after several back surgeries.
Greg described Billy Brewer's method of recruiting the best in softball players. Some were players on the Georgia football team. I remember that two of them would hit a home run every time they came up to bat.
Greg wrote that Billy Brewer was a missionary in recruiting his softball players. He insisted that every player attend worship services in order to play on our Men's team, and they did at least through the season. The softball players heard the Gospel preached and were given an opportunity in each worship service to come to Jesus Christ for salvation. Greg added, the church was full in those days.
In the first Missionary Convention I planned at my first pastorate, Brownville P. H. Church near Evergreen, Alabama, God spoke to Melvine if she would be willing to give her unborn child in her womb to be a missionary? She immediately responded by saying, "Yes."
Greg did respond to the call sent out by our World Missions Ministries of the IPHC to be a Tent Maker Missionary to Budapest, Hungary. He went to the Missions School, and prepared to go to Budapest to help new missions plant a church there. Unfortunately, this couple never showed up. It is my understanding they were having marital problems and finally divorced. How sad.
It was Missionary Ronda Pruitt who saved the day for Greg. She was living in Budapest where she reached out to missionaries to help them. She was able to locate a technical high school that needed a teacher to teach English to their Hungarian students. Greg accepted the challenge, applied for the job and got it. Greg is an excellent English teacher. He seems to know all the rules of English. I often confer with him when I have a problem.
In the meantime, Greg discovered that there was a charismatic/Pentecostal church in the city. He started attended there. He was asked to develop a singing group that would go out to the streets on Friday nights to sing, witness, and preach. Greg played a keyboard the church had. He led them in singing. People gathered around them and they had a congregation right there on the streets.
I think it is interesting that the first man Greg led to Jesus Christ on the streets was a man my same age at the time.
Greg would have longed to stay in Budapest. He rapidly picked up learning Hungarian, and became fluent in conversational Hungarian. He is gifted in linguists. Since there seemed to be no one scheduled to come, Greg made the decision to come home.
I noted with great interest how he described the ministry of Billy Brewer one of our leading coaches and the manager of the Tarkenton Memorial Men's Softball Team. He told about Billy calling and asking how I was. He, himself, was suffering greatly after several back surgeries.
Greg described Billy Brewer's method of recruiting the best in softball players. Some were players on the Georgia football team. I remember that two of them would hit a home run every time they came up to bat.
Greg wrote that Billy Brewer was a missionary in recruiting his softball players. He insisted that every player attend worship services in order to play on our Men's team, and they did at least through the season. The softball players heard the Gospel preached and were given an opportunity in each worship service to come to Jesus Christ for salvation. Greg added, the church was full in those days.
In the first Missionary Convention I planned at my first pastorate, Brownville P. H. Church near Evergreen, Alabama, God spoke to Melvine if she would be willing to give her unborn child in her womb to be a missionary? She immediately responded by saying, "Yes."
Greg did respond to the call sent out by our World Missions Ministries of the IPHC to be a Tent Maker Missionary to Budapest, Hungary. He went to the Missions School, and prepared to go to Budapest to help new missions plant a church there. Unfortunately, this couple never showed up. It is my understanding they were having marital problems and finally divorced. How sad.
It was Missionary Ronda Pruitt who saved the day for Greg. She was living in Budapest where she reached out to missionaries to help them. She was able to locate a technical high school that needed a teacher to teach English to their Hungarian students. Greg accepted the challenge, applied for the job and got it. Greg is an excellent English teacher. He seems to know all the rules of English. I often confer with him when I have a problem.
In the meantime, Greg discovered that there was a charismatic/Pentecostal church in the city. He started attended there. He was asked to develop a singing group that would go out to the streets on Friday nights to sing, witness, and preach. Greg played a keyboard the church had. He led them in singing. People gathered around them and they had a congregation right there on the streets.
I think it is interesting that the first man Greg led to Jesus Christ on the streets was a man my same age at the time.
Greg would have longed to stay in Budapest. He rapidly picked up learning Hungarian, and became fluent in conversational Hungarian. He is gifted in linguists. Since there seemed to be no one scheduled to come, Greg made the decision to come home.