Kansas Nebraska Convention of Southern Baptists (KNCSB)

Hispanics see 18 saved during GPS outreach

During the week leading up to Easter, Hispanics blanketed Garden City, Kan., for GPS (God’s Plan for Sharing), the national Southern Baptist evangelistic emphasis.

The week leading up to Easter saw great victories for Hispanics in Garden City, Kan.

They blanketed the city in outreach for GPS (God’s Plan for Sharing), the national Southern Baptist evangelistic outreach.

But the effort didn’t stop in Garden City. GPS outreach by Hispanics stretched from Garden City, down to the Oklahoma Panhandle and into the Texas Panhandle.

Since the beginning of the year, Enrique Bluvan had been challenging the churches to participate in GPS outreach. Bluvan is Hispanic church planter strategist for Western Kansas and Central Baptist associations.

“I’m excited,” Bluvan said of GPS. “I love it.”

In Garden City, the Hispanic outreach began with prayerwalking two weeks before Easter. Then during the week leading up to Easter, teams went door to door, distributing GPS packets in Spanish and sharing the gospel.

Bluvan displayed a map of Garden City that showed how he divided the city into areas for teams to cover. Teams went out in the mornings and again in the evenings. Joining the outreach effort were three people from Juarez, Mexico.

Thirty teams led 18 people to Christ and distributed 1,200 GPS packets in Spanish. They invited Anglos to attend First Southern Baptist Church in Garden City.

Victories continued on Easter when 50 visitors came to Primera Iglesia Bautista Hispana in Garden City.

Hispanic pastors in the region gathered in Guymon, Okla., later Easter afternoon to celebrate how God worked through GPS outreach. Along with the churches in Garden City, Kan., Hispanic churches in these towns also participated:

• Bovina, Texas
• Dumas, Texas
• Stratford, Texas
• Boise City, Okla.
• Hooker, Okla.
• Beaver, Okla.
• Guymon, Okla.