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Evangelism can happen neighbor to neighbor or speaker to stadium. God can touch hearts with his

words set to music, be it stringed instruments or clanging symbols, pipe organs, or

fender stratacasters. Today we want to focus on one slice of church history, how the Lord

use those tools to touch hundreds of thousands of lives through a move of God called

the Harvest Crusade.

And I'm happy to introduce a couple of gentlemen who know more about this move of God's hand

than perhaps anybody else this side of eternity.

Pastor Chuck Smith is Senior Pastor of Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa,

and Pastor Greg Lorry is Senior Pastor of Harvest Christian Chapel of Costa Mesa, and Pastor Greg Lorry is senior pastor

of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California, and the speaker of the Harvest Crusades.

Gentlemen, thanks for talking with us today. Good to be here. It's a joy. Well, Pastor Chuck,

let me ask you about this idea you came up with. More than 260,000 people have made decisions for Christ through the

Crusades. How did this idea come to you? And what did Greg say when you suggested it to him?

Well, Greg was doing the Monday night studies for the young people here at Calvary Chapel.

And the church was just crowded, packed to capacity,

and kids were outside and all. So I just was wondering, you know, if we took it to a larger venue,

just how many would come out. And it was just a curious kind of a idea on my side of it, how many would come so i talked to gregg about maybe

getting the pacific amphitheater and just do a one week kind of a crusade to see what the lord would do

now contrast the size of calvary chapel of costaesa with the size of the Pacific Amphitheater.

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