CSBC Nuggets-Evangelism

Evangelism efforts yield 18.5% baptism increase 

In 2010 California Southern Baptists participated in a 10-year, nationwide emphasis called GPS (God’s Plan for Sharing) that encourages very member to share the gospel so every person can hear and respond. More than 500 California churches prayer-walked communities and distributed 1.3 million gospel tracts with an invitation to attend Easter services. 

California Mission Offering gifts were invested to blanket our state with more than 2,100, 30-second commercials urging people to check out FindItHere.com. More Californians visited the Website than any other state’s residents. The evangelistic results indicate that the heightened emphasis on evangelism yielded an evangelistic harvest. In 2010 while the SBC experienced a 5% decrease in baptisms, California Southern Baptists had an 18.5% increase over the previous year!