The campaign in Lexington, Mississippi was a tremendous success and marked our first outreach in a community where a congregation had previously closed its doors. Leaders and members of the Hanging Moss Church of Christ in Jackson, under the leadership of Brother Curtis Pittman, partnered with GSM to help revitalize the work there—journeying daily over 65 miles to serve faithfully.

     Only one elderly couple from the original Lexington congregation remains, yet this effort demonstrates how larger congregations can redirect resources to strengthen struggling mission fields here in the U.S., where over 700 congregations have closed in the past decade.

God blessed our efforts: we knocked on 310 doors, found 160 people at home, taught 48, led 59 in prayer, and secured 50 follow-up opportunities.           So far, eleven precious souls have obeyed the Gospel. Based on these facts, we found someone home at approximately one out of every two doors that we knocked. One out of every three of the people that we found home allowed us to give them a gospel presentation and one of every five presentations resulted in a soul deciding to obey the gospel of Jesus Christ! To God be the glory!