Field Report

ALABAMA: Pastors from Baptist, Christian, Methodist, Pentecostal, Presbyterian, and other churches gathered in HUNTSVILLE to hear a "sampler" of Hugh’s outreach talks scheduled for their city this fall. Hats off to the outstanding RTB volunteer team there! Several of the group made the 4-hour drive to MONTGOMERY, taking Hugh to his lecture at an Auburn University satellite campus, developing outreach plans all the way.

CALIFORNIA: Volunteer apologist Frank Britton reports a growing youth outreach in CHINO. His class on "Reasons" has grown so popular—drawing many neighborhood young people—that it has moved to a larger meeting room. The UC campus in DAVIS and nearby churches saw a positive response to Hugh’s outreach talks. One of the nation’s best-known physicists (not a Christian, yet) listened attentively, asked probing questions—about the Bible prophecy—and encouraged his colleagues to consider Hugh’s arguments. RTB’s "biology think tank" met again this spring at our GLENDORA offices. The group is gaining momentum and deepening friendship as they develop ideas and plans for outreach to peers and lay people. Men and women of all ages, including a number of UCI students, packed a beautiful IRVINE home to hear some of the latest scientific evidences for God and a little of Hugh’s personal story. Craig Hawkins invited Hugh to address his enthusiastic apologetics students at Simon Greenleaf University in ORANGE. No need to motivate this group. They inhaled Hugh’s science material. Imagine people driving more than an hour to a 7 A.M. Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast. That’s what happened in REDDING when Hugh presented "An Astronomer’s Quest." More than 30 individuals indicated that they prayed to receive Christ at the close of this meeting.

COLORADO: Dr. James Dobson took time to read Beyond the Cosmos and became so excited about it he invited Hugh to COLORADO SPRINGS for an in-studio "Focus on the Family" radio interview. Look for a response report next issue.

GEORGIA: The trip began at TOCCOA FALLS College, a Christian campus where Hugh was the Staley Lecturer on science as an evangelistic tool. Next he went to Emory University in ATLANTA, a secular campus presumed hardened to the Gospel but definitely not. Before the trip ended Hugh gave an apologetics training seminar at First Baptist Church and Sunday messages at Buckhead Community Church, attended by some of Georgia’s distinguished apologists and many internationals. Between events, Hugh gave interviews for radio, television, and newspapers. What a week!

OHIO: Volunteer Mark Armstrong, in MEDINA, accepted the challenge to speak to 140 high school and middle school students, and he’s glad he did. He couldn’t count all the ones who raised hands after his talk to declare their commitment to Jesus Christ.

OKLAHOMA: Professor Mike Strauss, another RTB volunteer, presented scientific evidences for God to his colleagues and staff members at the University of Oklahoma in NORMAN.

VIRGINIA: RTB apologist John Morgan of RICHMOND has encountered so much demand for his message he has launched his own ministry called "Science-Faith Resource." A recent talk to internationals drew three Russian Ph.D. candidates in physics. They were stunned to hear that cosmology supports biblical teaching about the Creator and asked probing questions. John’s schedule also included a school assembly, a physicians fellowship, some Sunday morning sermons, and a women’s Bible study drawing from several churches.

THE PHILIPPINES: George Lebo, an astronomer and volunteer apologist from the University of Florida, took a gigantic leap of faith to participate in MANILA area outreaches organized by Christian Leadership Ministries. In a few warm days he addressed hundreds of students, teachers, business and professional people, giving them scientific reasons for faith in Christ and confidence in His Word.

PUBLICATIONS: Our long-awaited comic book, Destination Creation, is now available (see page 15 for details). Other new releases include—the Spanish versions of three articles. Beyond the Cosmos received one of five nominations for Christian Bookseller’s annual Gold Medallion Award.

CANADA: Big news! RTB Canada is up and running. The lift-off occurred during an enormously successful outreach series at SOUTH DELTA Baptist, near Vancouver, a church that now ranks as Canada’s largest evangelical congregation. If you live anywhere near it, we encourage you to visit. You’ll receive a spiritual boost, for sure. Announcement of Revenue Canada’s approval of RTB as a tax-exempt society has been sent to all our Canadian constituents. For anyone we missed in that mailing (forgive us while we get better organized and computerized), here is the Canadian address and phone number: 386 Davis Rd., Ladysmith, B.C. V9G 1V2.

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