#EAST HIGHLAND BAPTIST CHURCH HARTSELLE ALABAMA FREE#
The Baptist denomination is the largest free church denomination in the world with over forty-three members around the world. If you are looking for a new church or just visiting Hartselle, please browse through our church directory to find a church that meets your needs. According to our database, there are approximately 66 churches in Hartselle, with 1 Catholic churches, 25 Baptist churches, 1 Pentecostal churches, 6 Methodist churches, and 33 other denomination churches. Hartselle is located in the beautiful state of Alabama. “It’s been a great tool for us to have a means and a mechanism to share with a lot of people,” he said.įor more information about training in 3 Things visit HIGHLAND BAPTIST CHURCH is located at 1030 MAIN STREET in the city of Hartselle. Many of the events they’ve been part of haven’t been in their local area, and Blackman noted SOS Events would love more churches to be involved in other parts of the state. “The Lord has blessed it we’ve had a lot of people make decisions,” he said. If they are interested in learning more about the gospel after hearing the presentation, volunteers sit down with them at a table and counsel them through the decision and what it means. Learning moreīlackman noted the 3 Things presentation isn’t just something that brings people to a point where they can mouth a prayer and move on. He offered to hold it for her while she listened to the 3 Things presentation. He also remembers one event where a woman visited the tent with a snake wrapped around her neck. He remembers at one festival visiting with some teenagers who had made decisions at the SOS tent the year before and brought their friends back to hear the presentation. Now they look forward to doing it,” he said.īlackman has many treasured memories from events the church has participated in. “We’ve got a few folks … who had never done anything like that, and it brought them right out of their shell. Walter Blackman Jr., senior pastor of East Highland, said it’s “been very good, very helpful for our church.” And since the COVID-19 pandemic has died down, they’ve been seeing dozens more come to faith.
They saw around 300 make decisions at events in 2018 and more than 450 in 2019. More than 50 members are trained to share the 3 Things presentation. As a whole, SOS Events, started in 2001 by Tom and Carolyn Curtis, has seen more than 70,000 people pray to receive Christ.Īnd for East Highland, it’s an outreach ministry for the entire congregation. He now serves as a missionary for SOS Events, setting up a tent at community gatherings, fairs and festivals to share the gospel. “We’ve been at it pretty much ever since.” “I said, ‘This thing actually works,’” Burlison recalled. Not long after that, on a medical missions trip, 73 committed their lives to Christ. Soon after, he and three other people were trained in 3 Things, and at an event at East Highland that fall, 20 people made decisions to follow Jesus. Burlison was his church’s outreach director at the time and looking for ways to get more people at East Highland Baptist involved in sharing their faith. The method is called “3 Things,” and Burlison learned about it when Sammy Gilbreath, event evangelism strategist for the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions, encouraged him to check out a ministry called Serving Our Savior Events. “This lends itself to a conversation about people’s relationship with God really quickly,” Burlison noted. He said the answer is this - God cannot lie, God cannot change and God cannot let anyone into heaven unless they’re born again. When they do, “it’s a comfortable conversation,” said Burlison, a member of East Highland Baptist Church in Hartselle. Sometimes people aren’t interested in hearing the answer, but often they’re intrigued enough to listen. It starts with a simple question: What are three things God can’t do? Ronnie Burlison says it’s the easiest way he’s found to have a conversation about the gospel.
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