Dear Church Family,

When we have events like DNOW, we don’t always know the significance of our prayers and participation and how it will impact eternity. I want to tell you the story of the most spiritually significant man in our nation’s history.

You have never heard of this man.

Mordecai Ham was a revival preacher in the late 1800s and early 1900s and in 1934 he was preaching a tent revival in Charlotte, North Carolina. And two 14 year-old boys saw the tent, the commotion of people, and they heard this bold preaching. But as they walk up, they see there are no seats available. As they walk away, an usher whose name no one knows to this day, ran after these two 14 year-old boys grabbed them, and said, “Hey, we can find two seats for you boys together.” He walked them back, asked a couple of people to scoot over, and found those two 14 year-old boys seats. That day, they ended up giving their lives to Christ and consecrated themselves to the purposes of God in their generation. One of those boys was a man we now know as Billy Graham. Billy Graham ended up preaching the gospel to more people than anyone else has ever preached to in the history of the world. Millions of people were caught up into the Kingdom of God under the preaching of Billy Graham. The other boy’s name was Grady Wilson and he was the man that ended up helping Billy Graham organize all of his evangelistic crusades. He changed the world—not Billy Graham, not Grady Wilson, not Mordecai Ham, the usher, that one man that saw two 14 year-old boys walking away from the faith and said, “Not on my watch!” Your job is not to change the world. Your job is to change somebody’s world. And if you’re in my generation and up, we’ve got a job to do. Our job is to run into the breach. There has been a breach. Our job is to run into the breach and say, “Not on our watch, not while we’re here.”

Press On!

Mark