Jericho Road Ministries and the GNFC

(Post 4 of 5: See introduction to this series.)

Teams can do what individuals cannot. Jeff Noyed explains …

Guest post by Jeffrey D. Noyed, Director, Jericho Road Ministries

Why? Why would Jericho Road Ministries get involved with the Good News Festival & Clinic when JRM was only four months old and trying to establish itself? Further, why would a relationship-based model of outreach ministry desire to partner with a mass-evangelism outreach model?

Good Questions. The reason Jericho Road took the headlong plunge can be summed up in three words: teamwork, communication, and advocates.

The outreach model of the Good News Festival & Clinic was a back-burner dream of mine that probably wouldn’t have reached fruition for many years. However, when I saw the team of people that God had brought together, I changed my mind. This was a team that could start an event immediately—and with God’s help, they did.

And what better communication for a new organization than to have teams canvassing the community telling neighbors about an event at which Jericho Road would administrate five booths? (Community Resources, Groceries, Hygiene, Nutrition, and Dental).

Being saved through a Billy Graham telecast outreach has always made me appreciate the mass-evangelism model. Though the Jericho Road outreach style is more relationship based, I believe the Good News Festival & Clinic achieves this style through the advocates who are with the guests throughout the event and then do follow-up ministry.

I am already looking forward to our next event, Lord willing, in March 2012.