COVID-19 has greatly changed our calendar! Almost every speaking engagement that was on the schedule from March through September has been cancelled. Despite the huge changes in ministry we have stayed very busy. Amy has been working hard to start a homeschool website to teach families that have never done it before and aren't sure how to face the upcoming school year. We've both been speaking on a lot of zoom and virtual meetings. And I've been doing plenty of evangelism.

It's amazing how fragile our world is and how quickly our sense of "security" can be taken away from us! Weather it's coronavirus, or social injustice, or the economic crisis, nearly everyone, everywhere has been impacted by the issues of our day. As a result, the social upheaval surrounding us has driven many people to a greater openness about spiritual things. The harvest for souls is ripe... maybe more than ever before! Many are searching for answers and as people slowly come out of quarantine, we have a golden opportunity to take the gospel to them!

In an attempt to seize the moment, I've been going out daily to do evangelistic questionnaires and the resulting gospel conversations have been fantastic!!! This method provides one of the easiest ways to start a spiritual dialogue with almost anybody. I’m always trying to develop new questionnaires that have to do with current events and I've found that people usually enjoy participating in them if I do it in a friendly and respectful way. These questionnaires deal with the current "hot topics" and they all work great to create engaging conversations! Each day I try to grab a friend and face-mask and then we head to a park where we approach total strangers and say something like: “Hello, we're going around conducting a questionnaire about “coronavirus and religion” would you like to participate?” Surprisingly, most people say: "Sure" and immediately we are on the path to a good gospel conversation!

The Coronavirus questionnaire goes like this:
"Would you say that coronavirus is real news or fake news?"
"If there was a vaccine against coronavirus would you take it?"
"Do you think that we should open up the economy or keep it shut down?"
"Do you think there could be serious consequences if we ignore coronavirus?"

"Now we're going to apply the same questions to religion, Ready?"

"Would you say that religion is real news or fake news?"
"If there was a vaccine against sin would you take it?"
"Do you think its better to open up to spiritual things or to stay shut down?"
"Do you think there could be serious consequences for ignoring the sin pandemic?"

"That's it! Thanks for participating in this questionnaire!"

If the person we are speaking with seems interested in continuing the dialogue I go on by asking the famous evangelism explosion question: "If you were to die today and you were to walk up to heavens gate and God asks you: 'Why should I let you into my heaven?' What would you say?" These conversations can go in many different directions and I never want to "force the issue" but at the same time I usually end up being able to share a clear gospel message in a loving way. Nothing better than that!

Please pray for us as we continue to go out into the highways and byways with these questionnaires and try to create gospel conversations everywhere we go!

Micah for the Tuttle’s