This weekend will not be an ordinary Family Day Weekend for us. Should be quite extraordinary, actually.

Naomi and I are preparing to attend a special evangelistic event for the next three days. Moved by their shared desire to share the gospel with others, a group of local business people have banded together to fund an evangelism conference. They have rented a local Christian camp, hired child care, arranged for performing artist Paul Brandt to perform, donated door prizes, and more to create an opportunity to invite people to hear the gospel message being preached. They wanted a way to have non-believing business associates, coworkers, employees, and friends and family to get away from the distractions of life and have a family retreat on the long weekend and hear this message.

The event is called No Ordinary Weekend.

The message will be in the form of a new book series John Cross has been working on. The No Ordinary Series takes some of the content he has previously written, and reworked it into smaller bite sizes of around 45 pages each. “No Ordinary Book” starts off explaining what makes the Bible unique and why someone should study it, and the remaining 8 booklets explain the Gospel message. These books will be a great Sunday School or small group curriculum.

For this weekend, these books had to be handmade for this event as they are not quite ready for publication. Expect further announcements about these in the coming months.
In the meantime, visit noordinaryweekend.com for more details about this event.

This is the first time presenting these resources and the first time doing a weekend retreat like this. Please be praying for John Cross as he teaches through these new books and the rest of the activities. We are anticipating around 100 or more unbelievers aged 13+ to be in attendance, and we hope to see many come to a clear understanding of the Gospel.

Troy & Naomi