GCC Evangelism Stories

Debra, baptized in April in Blairsville church, initially met our excellent regional Bible worker, Cyndi Keiser. Cyndi led her to our Prophecy Seminar in 2023. Debra attended the Seminar and continued to study with Cyndi. She attended our church for almost two years until she decided to be baptized.  I am sharing this brief story because some say Public evangelism does not matter. Public evangelism and personal evangelism are meant to go hand in hand. Even if we don't see immediate results from Public evangelism, God makes it worthwhile. In 2023, we had only one baptism after the Prophecy Seminar. Still, in 2025, we had a second baptism due to that Seminar, combined with the hard work of personal evangelism done by Cyndi, who is a real blessing in our district.  Jesus would have died for only one person. All the work and effort are worthy for eternity.  Pastor Valentin Rusu

GCA and Calhoun churches have partnered together for a unique Evangelistic Series called “Why Adventist?"  The reason behind this series is that in our community - we have seen many families come through our schools that have never had the opportunity to really look into our beliefs and so we thought - why not a series in a classroom setting (where there kids attend) that is familiar to them and that doesn’t feel like Church, but is obviously about our Church.  The goal was to connect with these families while we connect them to our beliefs. Our first weekend we had over 50 in attendance. Many of them are not church members! We’ve been holding steady during the week at around 35 in attendance! We even have baptisms planned on our last evening which is this Sabbath!!!  One of our leaders mentioned the fact that we are having meetings in our school, focusing on those who have connected with our school, and in excitement said “this is why we have Christian educatio...