This is the Truth Network. There's no greater joy or celebration in heaven than when one sinner repents and comes to Christ. And I'll tell you what makes my day full of joy when I get a phone call from Rick Gage, an evangelist. Who tells me about souls getting saved, Brother Rick? Tell us what's going on.
Give us an update from the field, man. You've been living out a suitcase for two weeks. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. My brother 15.
That's exactly what the word declares. Listen, we have just finished our second camp of the summer. This is our thirty-seventh year. Doing our go-tail shoot at camps. And to God be the glory since 1989.
We have touched over 120,000 students and their leaders. With the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Over 40,000 have made commitments to Christ. And over 3,000 have answered the call to full-time Christian ministry since 1989. But already in the first two camps this summer We have seen 400 total spiritual decisions for Christ.
We have seen over 30, over 30 answer the call to ministry. And it's just unbelievable the testimonies and the spiritual impact. My dad, Freddie Gage, who was in this work. As a full-time Ephesians 4, 11 evangelist. for some sixty years.
He saw millions souls come to know Christ under his. Sixty years of evangelistic ministry. He told me many, many years ago. He said, Son. Do you know how to determine if your camp ministry is a success?
I said, how's that, Dad? He said, by how many lives are being changed? And Stu, we have seen just multitudes of young people's lives, their hearts, and not just the young people, but the adults who come with their students. We have just seen multitudes already this summer get their hearts right with God. We train these kids how to be witnesses for Christ.
We bring in gifted Ephesians 411 evangelists and communicators of the gospel. In fact, last week at Liberty University, We had Levi Skipper, the lead pastor at Sagemont Baptist Church in Houston, Texas. One of the largest Southern Baptist churches in the SBC, definitely in the state of Texas, they have already. in his two and a half years as the lead pastor. They have already seen 2,000 professions of faith, and they have baptized over 1,500 just in two and a half years.
Wow.
So he poured into these kids last week. We had Tony Nolan, we had Charles Billingsley with us on Wednesday night. and had Tony Nolan with us on Tuesday night. Just had a great move of God. That closed out Friday morning there at Liberty University.
And we're getting ready for our next camps due over here in Clinton, Mississippi. On the campus of Mississippi College, Mississippi Christian University. I love it. I love it. So, anyhow, we are.
We're blowing and going, and just giving God all the glory. It's fun giving God glory, it's fun being saved. But I'm telling you, Stu, these kids are getting on these buses and their vans on Friday. Full of God. Full of Jesus and full of the Holy Spirit, and they're going back to be witnesses to lost moms and dads.
Stepmom, stepdad, brothers and sisters, classmates, teammates. And, brother, they're going back on fire for God, and it's just a beautiful sight to see the impact that God's making in the hearts of these kids. Wow, that's the voice of evangelist Rick Gage. You know, it's so crazy. I have to record this, friends.
There's a movement. Every older, fuddy dud like me needs to be smiling real big right now because God's in. I just had a coffee with a pastor, Pastor Jeff. He brought this big framed picture. Of an old lady.
With old rimmed glasses in, Brother Rick. And you know who that was? That was his great-grandma who prayed for him every day before he was even born. Wow.
And now he's led thousands of Christ. He's been a part of these kinds of camps you're talking about. We had Clayton Keen with Crossroads camps last week. We had Jamie Johnson. We had Ryan Goodson talking about crossfire camps.
We did a Camp Haynes special, a North Carolina camp. I mean, what is it about camp? People are praying. Hearts are tender. Brother Rick Gage, tell everyone why it's so important that they get on their knees and pray right now.
For God to do a work and how God's answering those prayers. Tell us, real quick. Camp ministry, as you know, has been around for decades and decades and decades, and no telling how many. I mean, only heaven can measure the impact. Of the number of lives that have been reached for Christ through summer camp ministry over the last many, many decades and generations.
I was in Lynchburg, Virginia, a number of years ago at the airport. And as I was coming out of the airport, Jack Graham was walking into the airport, the late pastor of the great Prestonwood Baptist Church. in uh Dallas, Texas. And he said, Rick, what are you doing here? I said, Well, we're getting ready for a camp.
He said, Well, you tell everybody that I got saved at a youth camp as a young man.
So, and we all know Jack Workson, who founded Word of Life and the camp ministry that they still are having these days all over the world. In fact, the Rawlings Foundation. They are doing camps all over the world and seeing tens of thousands come to Christ in summer camp ministry. Goodness gracious. Wow.
So, the need, you get a kid away from his environment for four or five days, and he's in the middle of other believers and other kids his age from different parts of the world. And you bring in dynamic men of God and great music, and you have a lot of fun in the recreation activities of the week of camp. Where does that kid want to go back to camp next year? He wants to go back to that camp where he had fought, but where God invaded his life. Wow.
And many of these kids are bringing other kids back. I remember kids that went to camp with me, and their parents just kind of wanted them out of the house for a little bit. I'm like, it'd be good for me to have a friend. And watching them walk up that aisle, watching them give their life to Jesus, sitting around the fireplace. You know, giving them their first Bible.
I mean, there's just something about that, Rick Gage. That's why I love our friendship. I love what you're doing as an evangelist. You do these crusades all over the place.
Well, let me tell you this, Stu. On the last night of every camp, we have every person, adult and teenager. Who has made any type of spiritual decision for Christ during this week of camp? I'll say I want you to stand up.
Okay. And I'll challenge those kids, number one, be in church on Sunday, but number two, when your pastor gives the altar call, walk down the front. And let him and the whole congregation know. what God did in your life.
So it's we had a pastor that called us some time back. It's been a few years ago, but he called me and said, Rick. What have you done to our teenagers? I said, Jim, what are you talking about? He said, we're having revival in our church because of the impact camp had on our kids.
Wow.
I said, Jim, that's why we have youth camp. And anyway, he invited us to come preach in his church that fall season. And that fall that that Sunday that fall Opened the door for us to go back a year later and do an area-wide, county-wide evangelist crusade. That reached over a thousand souls for Christ. We spoke to over 6,000 students in all the area.
Schools there in Southeast Kentucky. But none of that spiritual impact would have happened in North Laurel County, Kentucky, if it had not been. For God impacting those teenagers' hearts during that week of camp. I love it. I love it.
Well, Rick Gage, thank you for what you're doing, brother. You have a whole evangelism ministry. You're touching a lot of souls. You bless me. Every time you come to town, you were in town in Winston.
You came to Wednesday, and the word afterward, we went to see one of our Christian radio partners who had us share the gospel with them. And I said, Hey, I got a heavy hitter with me. I got Rick Gage with me. They said, Bring him. And we had people raise their hand to receive Christ that had been prayed for for a month.
I remember that. Yeah, and you were right in the middle of it. But, you know, God, just that beautiful thing about some, you know, some water, right?
Some plant, others see the harvest. And hey, look, I want people to understand when Rick Gage goes to do a crusade, he doesn't care if it's the LA Coliseum. Or the southeast Baton Rouge, Louisiana LA Coliseum. He's not necessarily targeting the Metro Dome. He wants to go anywhere.
You go to these, you were in Mount Erie doing one last year. We were glad to advertise that and interview you. And I just love it. I want people to call you. I want people to get involved with your ministry.
I want people to donate to you. I want to help develop and put your content on nationwide because the gospel is worth sharing. We don't know how much time we have. If you think the humid weather in the south is hot, hell is hotter. And your friends and loved ones that don't know Jesus, think about eternity for them.
And you could be the one person, Ezekiel 33, standing the gap. And you could, through ministries like Rick, you can't get Rick there. He can encourage you. He can encourage you how to share the gospel. And you can send a kid to his camp.
Rick, give us the website. Give us the information real quick for you. Just go to goteellcamps.com. Gotellcamps.com. Go Tell Camps.
And friends, I want to encourage everyone to go tell Rick Gage. Give us a Bible verse getting out here. What's a good verse to claim for this summer for all this stuff? 230 says, He who wins souls is. Wise, I love it.
Proverbs 11:30. The fruit of the righteous is the tree of life. Yes. And he that winneth souls is wise. Thank you, Rick Gage, for all you're doing, brother.
Thank you, buddy. God bless you. Should the time of blood?
