They have distributed millions of Gospel books, DVDs and other tools. At least 2 million New Yorkers have been personally contacted about Christ during these four weeks.

Now, on Saturday, June 29, Jesus Week XL climaxes with a major united Gospel rally in the middle of Times Square.

It takes place with the blessing and support of the mayor's Office, NYPD, NYFD and many other civic and government groups. This is a complete miracle!

Here's the kicker: Though unintended, the rally takes place in the thick of the largest gathering of the LGBTQ community in history: World Gay Pride Week.

This means hundreds of thousands of visitors (let alone tourists) from all over the world will be congregating in Times Square in New York that very night, like Acts 2. Like another Pentecost!

The crowds will witness a four-hour Gospel outreach rally, uniting churches across the city with music, drama, videos on jumbotrons and special speakers. It's simply amazing!

Not only that, but Jesus Week USA is ready to go national, to replicate what we've done in New York City in other major cities. We are doing this in collaboration with other major national ministries focused on saturating the nation with Christ in 2020.

But this Saturday may be the most strategic gathering of all. Pray for a mighty work of the Holy Spirit.

Charisma spoke with Pastor David Beidel, president of Saturate NY, to hear about the heart of what they do. [NOTE: This interview has been edited for grammar and clarity.]

Charisma: What is Saturate New York?

David Beidel: Sometimes the promises of God seem to mock us. When anyone walks or drives through New York, the overarching promise of Scripture that "the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the seas" (Hab. 2:14) seems ridiculous. What we have learned, however, is that disobedience is what mocks us and dishonors the name of Jesus.

Saturate NYMetro spearheads a large coalition of small, under-resourced churches scattered throughout the most at-risk communities in our region. Our dream is simple: What if we actually honored the promise and appeal of John 17? What if we truly were one with, and saturated with, God in Christ? What if we truly walked as one holy family before Him and strategically aligned to bring the Gospel to every home in the tristate region? Would the New York metro area truly "know that Jesus Christ was sent from the Father?"

We utilize Acts 1:8 as our blueprint for building this New Covenant temple in our region. We have contextualized the four quadrants of this strategic Great Commission passage into: neighborhoods (Jerusalem), schools (Judea), public/subsidized Housing (Samaria) and the ethnic groups in our city (ends of the earth). The goal is that 5 to 20 churches would serve together collaboratively in every zip code, making sure that at least these four quadrants of our Great Commission are receiving prayer and the Gospel in word and in deed. We feel the burden of Christ when His heart was broken for Jerusalem because the people were helpless and harassed, like sheep without a shepherd. Our battle cry is "No Sheep Without a Shepherd in my zip code ... city ... Metro!"

This was a dream three years ago, but now we look back in awe as God has opened a floodgate of blessings upon our city that we would never have thought possible. In this short period of time, our network of churches and nonprofits has distributed over 30 tractor-trailer loads of amazing evangelistic books, full-color children's books, coloring books, millions of Every Home For Christ "Encounter Life" engagers, custom made for our saturation outreach, and over 3 million Jesus film DVDs provided by Christ For All Peoples. Over three million homes have been "adopted" by local churches for door-to door Gospel engagement!

God has fully resourced and empowered reaching our neighborhoods/Jerusalem. We are gearing up now to launch a huge "adopt a local school" initiative as we see the potential to stop the bleeding in our inner-city communities.

Charisma: What is Jesus Week 2019?

Beidel: Jesus Week began with another "what if?" What if a critical mass of Jesus loving churches all "stepped it up in prayer and outreach for one week?"

Dimas Salaberrios, (who spearheads Jesus Week with me), Steve Milazzo (who spearheads "Hope Day") and myself, reached out to several dear friends and network leaders throughout the city to see what they thought. It was all thumbs-up and then God just kissed the John 17 effort. Sponsor after sponsor began pouring in blessings to resource the effort. 2019 is our third year doing this. It gets more exciting every year. We don't micromanage the various outreaches.

Our only question is: "Will you bring the Good News to the lost in your community?" If the answer is 'yes,' we supply them with thousands of books, tracts, our outreach app cards (we developed a very powerful evangelistic/social service web/app: SaturateNYMetro.app) and Jesus film DVDs.

Charisma: What is the significance of Jesus Week 2019 and World Gay Pride Week culminating in the same weekend?

Beidel: We never would have planned our finale to coincide with World Gay Pride Week. There was a great deal of back and forth before we nailed down a date for our culminating celebration. When we realized what we were stepping into, we were a bit rattled, but then quickly realized that God's sovereign hand deigned this.

It is clear to all of us who are in leadership that Jesus longs to express His love to a community that has experienced so much disdain and even hatred from the Church. We began to see this as a unique day of Pentecost. Peoples from dozens of nations will be gathering in Times Square this weekend. They will hear the Good News that Jesus loves them with an everlasting love...

Charisma: What miracles have you seen come to fruition ahead of the event?

Beidel: Too many miracles to tell!

We are in awe that God keeps opening every door and we are in awe that millions throughout our region are receiving the Gospel.

We keep hearing stories of children reading the books we distribute over and over again. One police officer told us that he saw a girl reading one of our books in a park in Bushwick, Brooklyn. She sat on a bench and read the whole book. As she got to the last page, just as the book prompted her, she got down on her knees and gave her life to Jesus. We have distributed nearly a million of these sweet children's books.

We believe that there is an under-the-radar revival going on in the hearts of hundreds of thousands of our city kids. Very few children in under-resourced neighborhoods own one children's book. For many, these stories of Jesus are their one and only.

One of our pastors in the Bronx told me that as he was sharing Jesus Week resources on a street corner, dozens of Bengali Muslims in full customary attire, swarmed around his table, grabbing resources.

As he offered one of the men a Jesus film DVD (in eight languages), the man said, "We already have that ... my wife, my children, we love this movie, we watch it all the time!"

We believe there is an under-the-radar revival in the Muslim communities of our city. The tract that Every Home For Christ produced for us is called Dreams. It speaks of the fact that everyone dreams of perfect love, hope and peace but only Jesus can fulfill any of those dreams.

It then leads them through a QR code to five movies about five Muslims who found Jesus because they dreamed of Him!

A few days ago, I joined one of our beautiful evangelism partners, Love NY, and a team of around 30 people from NYC and across the nation. They had asked the police in Brooklyn, which was the most dangerous neighborhood in the borough. They told us of a housing project in Brownsville. So we went and ministered in the courtyard through worship, prayer, door-to-door evangelism and donuts!

There in one of the darkest neighborhoods in our city, light came streaming in. Dozens opened their hearts to Christ, several were healed, people were pointed to a life-giving church and hundreds of hearts were filled with hope. It was my personal joy to pray with the sweetest young lady who was pregnant. Her apartment was barren, but she welcomed Jesus gladly into her heart and her home!

Two of the largest violent gang/drug raids in NYC history occurred the morning after city and borough-wide prayer events that targeted the housing projects we prayed for.

Our Saturate Harlem Borough Shepherd, Donnel Harper, actually prayer-walked through the Manhattanville Housing Projects twice that day before God restored shalom to his community! He told me he saw people walking in his neighborhood that he had never seen in his life because they were all hiding from fear.

One young man was giving out one of our evangelism books titled: "God Will Carry You Through" by Max Lucado. He gave it to a woman sitting in a parked car. A few minutes later when he passed by, she motioned him to come.

She said: "I was just sitting here wondering, how am I going to make it through? I just had an accident. I'm out of work. I have my kids to support ... and you walk over and hand me a book that says 'God Will Carry You Through!'"

She and he were both weeping.

We see the lost being found in every neighborhood and on every street corner and the "saved" coming alive again as they break free from the deadly "Dead Sea Syndrome" where living water flows in, but nothing flows out. Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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