Our 2013 Jubilee Gang summer tour starting May 29.
We will be traveling 13,281 miles in 3 months.
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
JG Missouri Update: 84 people born again!
Dear Friends and Partners;
We had an amazing week ministering at 2 churches and a Christian School in Missouri. On April 24-26 we ministered at Grace Fellowship Family Worship Center in Marble Hill, MO. We saw God bless us with his presence during a time of surrendering our will to his and desiring to go deeper in our relationship with him on the last night of the event. During this 3 day event we also saw around 56 people born again.
On Sunday April 28th Jerry ministered to the adults at Sunrise Bible Church in Sunrise Beach, MO then we did a Jubilee Gang event on Sunday night in their christian school gym and saw 11 children born again. On Monday morning we ministered during a christian school assembly and saw 18 children come forward to be born again.
We got to take our granddaughter Aeva on this short trip. She made her JG debut in Marble Hill, MO by singing Jesus Love Me! We have included a video of this below.
So far this year we have seen over 363 people born again during our events across America!
Below are some Pictures and Video from our events in MO last week.
Aeva makes he Singing Debut
Marble Hill, MO
Alter Call in Marble Hill, MO
Children seeking more of God in Marble Hill, MO
Jerry praying with 11 Children to be born again
in Sunrise Beach, MO
Jerry praying with 17 Children to be born again
in Sunrise Beach, MO during a christian school assembly.
Monday, April 22, 2013
Spring tour Update; 264 people born again!
We had an awesome Spring tour of the U.S.
From March 17 - April 17 we traveled 7,540 miles
and saw 264 people born again! PTL!!!
and saw 264 people born again! PTL!!!
We started out in Circleville, OH at Circleville Church of the Nazarene where we ministered to the children during 5 services for their Tragedy to Triumph conference and 2 christian school chapel services. During this event we saw over 83 different children born again.
Then we headed west toward Denver, CO where we were going to minister at Word of Life Christian Center on Palm Sunday when we ran into one of the spring snow storms of 2013. I-70 was shut down from Denver back into KS for over 24 hours and all roads into Denver were closed which caused us to have to cancel our event in Denver.
CO department of Transportation Map showing all
roads into Denver shut down.
After our fun time trying to get into Denver we headed south to Tucson, AZ to visit family for a few days in between events. Easter weekend we ministered in Visalia, CA at Visalia First Assembly for 4 services one Saturday evening and 3 Sunday morning. Each service had a different set of children attending. During this event we saw 135 different children born again.
Jerry praying with children in Visalia, CA
Jerry Praying with children in Visalia, CA
After an awesome weekend of ministry in Visalia, CA we headed North to WA State where we visited family and ministered at 2 Churches. Jerry ministered in 3 adult Sunday AM services on April 7th at Covenant Church in Spokane, WA then we did a Jubilee Gang event at Covenant Christian School that evening where we saw 12 people come forward to be born again.
Jerry praying with 12 people in Spokane, WA
On Tuesday April 9th we ministered at Covenant Church in Moses Lake, WA and saw 30 children and 2 adults come forward to be born again.
Jerry praying with 32 people to be born again in Moses Lake, WA
Our trip back across the top of the country was met with several Spring snow storms, some of which were blizzard conditions. However, we are now back home safe and ready to head to MO to minister at 2 churches. We will be ministering at Grace Fellowship Family Worship Center in Marble Hill, MO on April 24-26 and at Sunrise Bible Church in Sunrise Beach, MO on Sunday April 28th.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Awesome week of ministry in WA State
Dear Friends and Partners:
We had an awesome week of ministry in WA State at 2 different churches. Sunday April 7th we ministered at Covenant Church in Spokane, WA. Sunday morning Jerry ministered in 3 adult services then Sunday night we did a Jubilee Gang event in the Covenant Christian School gym and saw 12 children born again.
Then on Tuesday April 9th we ministered at Covenant Church in Moses Lake, WA to a packed house with every seat taken and standing room only. We saw 30 children and 2 adults come forward to be born again.
It was a pleasure to work with both of these churches to reach their community.
Below are some Pictures from these events
Jerry ministering Sunday morning at Covenant Church
in Spokane, WA
Jerry teaching the Power Verse put to a beat
in Spokane, WA
Jerry Praying with 12 people to be born again
in Spokane, WA
Candy talking to Wild Thing in Moses Lake, WA
Jerry praying with 30 children and 2 adults to be born again
in Moses Lake, WA
Friday, April 5, 2013
135 Children born again in Visalia, CA
Dear friends and Partners:
We had an awesome Easter weekend in Visalia, CA at Visalia 1st Assembly. We ministered in four services in 2 days. One Saturday evening and 3 services Easter Sunday Morning. Each service had a different set of children. During these 4 services we saw 135 different children come forward to be born again! It was awesome to see so many children receive Jesus in such a short amount of time! God is so Good!
Our event in Denver CO at Word of Life Christian Center on Palm Sunday had to be cancelled because of the spring blizzard of 2013. All roads into Denver were shut down. I70 was closed from Denver all the way back into Kansas for over 24 Hours.
Below are some pictures from our event in Visalia, CA
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Jubilee Gang update for Circleville, OH
We had an awesome week in Circleville, OH ministering at Circleville Nazarene Church. During our 5 services and 2 christian school chapel services this week we saw over 83 different children born again. The Altars were packed several nights with children seeking more of God and wanting to find his will for their lives. God just continues to blow my mind when he blesses us with his presence and with the opportunity to led so many children to Jesus.
Below are some Picturs from our event in Circleville, OH
260 kids attended the Sunday morning service at
Circleville Nazarene in Circleville, OH
26 children came forward to be born again during
the sunday AM service
Chicken skit with Pastor David
Jerry Praying with 19 childen to be born again sunday night
Frog flip Game
Children seeking more of God Tuesday Night
The altars were packed on the last night with children
seeking more of God and desiring to find his will for their lives.
Monday, March 18, 2013
Jubilee Gang Update: 1st day at Circleville Nazarene.
We had an awesome day at Circleville Nazarene in Circleville, OH. We did 2 servces on Sunday March 17th and saw around 46 individual children come forward to be born again. 27 in the 1st service and 19 in the 2nd. PTL!
This was an awesome kick off to our 2013 tour season. We will be here in Circleville, OH for 3 more days then we head to Denver, CO for Palm Sunday March 24 where we will be ministering in the AM & PM services at Word of Life Christian Center http://www.wolcc.net
Easter weekend we will be ministering in Visailia, CA at Visailia 1st Assembly then we head north to WA state where we will be ministering in Spokane & Moses Lake.
Below are some Pictures from our services at Circleville Nazarene on Sunday March 17th.
260 kids 27 making first time decisions to be born again.
Jerry praying with 27 children to be born again.
Chicken Skit with Pastor David.
Jerry Praying with 19 more children to be born again
in the PM service.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Children's Ministry or Entertainment?
Children's Ministry or Entertainment?
Over the years we have seen new ideas incorporated into children’s ministry such as; games, multi media, and technology at the expense of watering down the gospel message.
We use most of these methods during our Jubilee Gang events. However, the purpose of our events are not to just entertain and wow the children, but to lay a firm foundation from the word of God that they can build upon to strengthen their faith in Jesus.
Our Goals as the Jubilee Gang is to....
1. see as many men, woman, boys, and girls make a legitimate decision to be born again.
2. To stir up belevers to grow up spiritually.
3. Encourage believers to reach out to the world around them with the good news of the gospel.
To many time we have seen people herded to the altar to be saved without fully understanding what is happening to them.
True faith comes from the word of God, The Bible. Without teaching the bible in a way that people can understand they will not have faith to receive what is being offered to them.
If we play games for an hour, wow our audiences with multiple special effects and shout a few scriptures, then how do we expect them to be able to make a legitimate decision to follow Jesus?
We encourage people to use all these methods to teach, but the message cannot get lost in the methods. The word of God needs to always come first in everything we do and all these methods are used to reinforce the message.
By all means use all the new methods the world has to offer to make your lessons the more exciting. Make your children’s church the most exciting, spectacular, experience possible for children but, don’t replace sound biblical teaching and anointing with all fun and games.
Ask yourself, do I want to have a service or a circus?
We must stay relevant to reach this generation. The message never changes, but the method must change. Games, multi media, lighting effects, and video are all very effective ways to get the message across. But if they replace sound biblical teaching and anointing we will produce a generation of fluffy Christians with no spiritual backbone.
Jerry Moyer
The Jubilee Gang
Website www.jubileegang.com
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Thursday, February 21, 2013
Outreach is reaching out...
This week we got to do one
of my favorite things in ministry. We got to OUTREACH! Or to put it another way
we got to REACH OUT! We were able to go outside the four walls of a church
building and be a blessing to the world and present the Gospel to people that
might not ever come to a church building. Many times what we call outreach is
when we have a big event at our church and invite the world to come to us. Dr.
Roy Fish said it this way, “Evangelizing in the church is like fishing in a
bathtub: it’s terribly convenient, but you don’t catch much.”
Sadly to say that most of
the unsaved people in our communities will never come to a church building
because of pre conceived ideas about churches, like that they are nothing but
dead religion or they have become irrelative to today’s society. Many people have had a bad experience at church
therefore; they believe all churches are alike. If we are truly going to
fulfill the Great Commission that Jesus told us was our job as his disciples to
“go into all the world and make disciples.” We are going to have to go to the
world. Go into our communities and present the gospel to the world on their
turf. It really does not matter what this looks like as long as the gospel is
presented. If we can find a need in our
community to be a blessing to people, it will open the door for people to hear
the good news of Jesus. I have seen churches go to the community and spend
upward of $10,000 on an event that was a blessing however; the gospel was not
presented. Essentially this equals nothing more that a carnival or a fair that
the world puts on for themselves however; it was sponsored by a church. If we
are going to make disciples we must present the gospel in a nonthreatening way
and give people an opportunity to respond to the message by giving their lives
to Jesus. Otherwise, we are throwing money at the wind.
Last Friday we got to partner with a local ministry called React that holds monthly events in our city with free food, prizes, and entertainment however; the Gospel is clearly presented to all that attend. We did a scaled down version of our “What is a Christian” program and were able to lead the ones who wanted to follow Jesus in a prayer to give their lives to him.
This Tuesday we were able to minister at one of our local Elementary Schools at an after school program called “The Sonshine Club.” This ministry does an after school program once a week in many of our city’s Elementary Schools. It provides parents with an hour of afterschool activity for their children including games and bible lessons. This Tuesday we were able to do our scaled down version of our “What is a Christian” program to children that might not get a chance to hear the gospel message anywhere else. After our presentation, we were able to pray with the children who wanted to receive Jesus into their lives.
Each year our goal is to do several programs outside of a local church building. Out where the people are. In communities, parks, schools, anywhere we can get a crown to hear the Gospel.
Someone once said "We're no longer fishers of men, but keepers of the aquarium, and we spend most of our time swiping fish from each others bowls."
I pray this changes! I pray that more churches would have us in to do events at a neutral location where more unchurched people will come and give their lives to Jesus and then be invited to a local church to be discipled.
Below are some pics from these 2 outreach events…
Jerry ministering at a React Outreach
in Springfield, OH
A young man praying to receive Jesus
at a react Outreach in Springfield, OH
Jerry sharing the Gospel at a public school
Outreach in Springfield, OH
A young lady praying to receive Jesus during
a public school outreach in Springfield, OH
A young lady praying to receive Jesus during
a public school outreach in Springfield, OH
a public school outreach in Springfield, OH
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
ALERT!!!! EMERGENCY!!! HELP!!!!!
ALERT!!!! EMERGENCY!!! HELP!!!!!
More than 70,000 people die in this world without ever having heard the gospel of Jesus Christ.
There are 4.5 billion people on the earth today that do not know Jesus.
That means that they are dying and going to Hell.
Does that concern you? Does it cause you to want to do something to bring people to Jesus?
In the Christian church world today, we have lost the urgency of sharing the Gospel with the world. We have fallen asleep with doctrine that says that we need to be a silent light to world; we need to make our church services comfortable for people that are unsaved, so they will want to come to our churches.
Keith Green once said "I'd rather have people hate me with the knowledge that I tried to save them."
If you were a fireman and saw a person screaming out a window of a burning house “HELP!, HELP!” Would you just stand by and watch them burn and say well I pray they find their way out of that burning house! I don’t want to offend them so I’m not going to go show them the way out. NO you would do anything possible to help them. Yet we as the body of Christ stand by without any sense of urgency and people all around us sink into the depths of Hell.
Leonard Ravenhill put it this way “Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die? Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand? Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you DAMNED?"
Has the church world become so focused on growing our churches or ministries that we have forgotten what we are in ministry for in the first place. Jesus said in the Great commission to “go into all the world and make Disciples,” to “Go into all the world and preach the gospel.” However, we have changed it to “make our churches so warm and inviting that people will want to come and are not offended.”
Healthy things naturally grow. If our churches are not growing, we have to ask ourselves, “Are they really healthy?”
Thomas C. Oden said, “The church that becomes focused upon maintaining itself instead of the gospel becomes a dead branch of the living vine.”
Over my 24 year in ministry, I have seen many churches that do not lead people to Jesus during their services. I have seen many Children’s Pastors that do not pray with children to be born again. That is reserved for kid’s camp or special services that happen only a few times per year. Ideally evangelism is not to take place in the church building, but out in the world during our every day life. But what if we knew that one of the people in our services this week was going to die after the service on the way home would it change our approach? We do not know what the future for our self holds much less everyone in our weekly services.
I have been to Christian concerts where the artist presented the gospel but, never gave a chance for people to receive salvation. Many times it’s because of a teaching that has circulated the body of Christ that it is our job to just present the good news. If people believe it they will go get it. One preacher presented the gospel and said go home and think about this and if you really want it, come back tomorrow and be born again. The reason for this is because ministers do not want people to respond out of emotion or in the heat of the moment. They want to make sure that the people responding are serious and truly want to make Jesus Lord of their lives. Not just responding to an artist or preacher that is influencing them. This is understandable! I have the same concerns ministering to children. I could manipulate the service in such a way that my altars would be packed every service. For this reason I purposely stay away from these practices. However, I hardly ever end a service without giving the lost an opportunity to be born again. If the Gospel is properly presented and people are not manipulated we can rule out most of the people that really do not understand or are being moved by emotion.
On the night of October 8, 1871, D.L. Moody finished a message with some words he regretted for the rest of his life. So great was his remorse that he committed himself to never making the same mistake again. The title of Moody's sermon was "What Shall I Do with Jesus?" At the end, he announced, "Now I want you to take the question with you and think it over, and next Sunday I want you to come back and tell me what you're going to do with Him." But, next Sunday never came. As Moody dismissed his audience, the nearby courthouse fire bell sounded. At the time, no one had any idea how serious the blaze would become. As it turned out, the hall in which Moody spoke, the church he established, and his home were all destroyed in the inferno that became the Great Chicago Fire, along with more than 18,000 other buildings. But Moody hardly gave a second thought to his gutted home and church. They could easily be replaced – but not the lost souls. It was the memory of the audience he never saw again that was seared in his mind for the rest of his life.
The Bible says in 2 cor. 6:2 “behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation” and I will add to this, for tomorrow may be too late!
Where is our urgency to lead People to Jesus? Where is our urgency to save people from hell?
There is a new trend that teaches that it is the parent’s job to lead the children into the new birth. I do not disagree with this. Ultimately, it should be the parent that prays with their children to be born again. I prayed with my son to be born again while driving in a car when he was just a child. But to be honest about this, a lot of parents do not have a firm grip on what being born again is themselves, or are not comfortable discussing it with their children. I pray that this changes.
If we always put it in the parents ball park and they drop the ball, or maybe they are not even born again themselves, or they do not go to church themselves, do we let these children creep through the cracks of our system? There must be a time where children have a chance to be born again while they are attending our services. It must be high on our priority list for children coming up through our churches.
If we let people leave our services unsaved because we believe that evangelism should only take place outside our church building, have we allowed people to slip through the cracks of our pet doctrine?
I am in no way saying that we should be preaching hell fire and brimstone every week to pack out our altars with people, however ask your self this question. “How long has it been since I gave people an opportunity to receive salvation and be born again in my service?” Do you even remember? There is a disturbing trend that a lot of churches today just do not give that opportunity for people to be born again at church. Some churches I know personally have gone months even years and have not led any one person to Jesus.
Ultimately evangelism should be taking place outside the church and the church should be a place to bring the newly saved to be disciple however, let us not ignore the opportunity to lead someone to Jesus that could have came with a hunger in their heart to get right with God or give their live to God and we have just provided a religious experience for them or allowed them to have a religious awakening but they walk away without a true conversion, without being introduced to Jesus, without being born again because of a pet doctrine we have created because of abuse or manipulation that we have seen in the past.
Where is our Urgency? Have we fallen asleep? Have we learned to ignore the fact that without Jesus, without being born again that people will die and spend an eternity in Hell?
John Wesley said “You have nothing to do but to save souls. Therefore spend and be spent in this work. And go not only to those that need you, but to those that need you most…It is not your business to preach so many times, and to take care of this or that society; but to save as many souls as you can; to bring as many sinners as you possibly can to repentance.”
Oswald J. Smith said “Oh, to realize that souls, precious, never dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of darkness and despair, eternally lost, and yet to feel no anguish, shed no tears, know no travail! How little we know of the compassion of Jesus!"
William Booth the founder of the Salvation Army said 'Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters, and servants and masters not to come there. And then look Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish his mercy to the world.'
William Booth also said "Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell."
It in not my motivation for this article to come across condemning or that you feel guilty enough that you do something. It is simply a wake up call! For I fear that the church world as a whole has fallen asleep!
I believe the following video sums this up so well. its called:
"A Letter from Hell"
Willie George said “reaching the lost is the lifeblood of a church. If you aren't winning souls, be so disturbed about it that you change!”
Jerry Moyer
Jubilee Gang Ministries
Website www.jubileegang.com
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