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April 5, 2010 - John Thomason

  First Southern Baptist Church , Douglas : The church passed out 2,l00 "Find It Here' brochures and had a record attendance on Easter Sunday morning with 68 in their service. They had 16 first time visitors. When John expressed his appreciation to one first time guest for their presence that day, she replied, "you're the only church in town that's invited us!"

April 5, 2010 - Abe Ogea

  Emmanuel Baptist Church , Rock Springs : The church experienced 8 salvation decisions and 12 rededications during their Easter Sunday Services. They also had many "lost" husbands in their services. The Western Wyoming Community College auditorium of Rock Springs was rented for the morning Easter Services with a special musical program and Evangelist Sonny Holland leading the service.

April 5, 2010 - Barry Crandall

  First So Baptist Church , Big Piney: Reported two salvations and five rededications.

April 6, 2010 - Bob Logan

  Tongue River Baptist Church , Ranchester: Easter Sunday morning the church enjoyed 9 guests. They are hopeful for further results in the future.

April 6, 2010 - John Herrington

  Risen Son Southern Baptist Church , Thermopolis: The church prayer walked Thermopolis for a month and hung brochures on every door in the community. On Easter they prepared by adding 50 extra seats in the auditorium and nearly filled every seat. They were blessed with 240 in attendance in their Easter Service.

April 6, 2010 - Guille Seigler

  First Southern Baptist Church , Moorcroft: They had one first time guest and a rededication during their Easter Sunday Service.

April 6, 2010 - Darrell Schoppa

  Wind River Baptist Church , Pinedale: They had one first time guest as a result of leaving some information at a hotel desk. He was already a Christian but was looking for somewhere to attend services. They distributed 375 door knockers. They had 38 for Sonrise service, and 50 for their regular worship service. Some who had not been seen for awhile were there.

April 6, 2010 - Buddy Hanson

  Mountain View Baptist Church , Mills: They went to 2 services because it was so full last year. 163 attended. One young person prayed to receive Christ. At least one family came as a result of the door knockers. Many others who were personally invited also attended. Mountain View tries to do some kind of invitation to all area residents for Easter and Christmas every year, so this campaign fit right into what they were already doing.

April 6, 2010 - Quin Williams

  Boyd Ave. Baptist Church , Casper : Beginning with Palm Sunday, the day after the door knockers were distributed, they had 20-25 visitors. Then at the Good Friday service, they had a handful of visitors. For the 2 services on Sunday morning, 295 were present. One man specifically said he was there because of the info left on his door. Quin guesses that they had in excess of 50 guests. They also received numerous calls from people asking for more information about the church.

April 7, 2010 - Randy Barnett

  Bar Nunn Baptist Church , Bar Nunn: Around 70 people attended the Easter service. Many brought family members who do not regularly attend. One of those couples asked for some counseling help. 1 individual came in response to the handouts.

April 7, 2010 - George Harrivel

  First Southern Baptist Church , Casper : 140 people attended the Easter service, with 15 registered guests and maybe 5 more who did not register. These indicated they came because of an internet search or because of friends' invitations. None attended specifically because of the flyers. 3 families marked an interest in joining the congregation. 4 returning National Guard servicemen were present.

April 7, 2010 - Gary Hans

  Sunrise Baptist Church : 104 participated in Sunday's service, including 30-40 who don't attend on a regular basis. About 10 were first time visitors. There wasn't any specific feedback on the flyers, but they created a bonding experience, and also motivated the members to invite others.

April 7, 2010 - Brian & Becky Kimzey

  The Rock: They had an afternoon service at 4:00 pm, as Brian preached at Agape in the morning. Attendance was just family. They had Bible study with 4 kids after the service and used the Resurrection Eggs illustration.

   Agape Baptist Church : 60 or more were present for the morning service with just a few visitors.

April 7, 2010 - Dave & Penny Allen

  Cambria Community Church : 40-50 people were at the Easter service, with 2 visiting families in attendance. They put a map of the Newcastle area on the wall in the back, and marked off sections as people distributed flyers, prayer walked or drove. The campaign developed more awareness of those lost around them and also provided fellowship and drawing together of those who participated. An opportunity to be of help to a neighbor with medical problems came up. They even asked for prayer. God is working...

April 7, 2010 - Ray Galloway

  North Cheyenne Baptist Church , Cheyenne : 65 people were at the Sunrise service-the most ever! Even with some the regulars out of town, their sanctuary was completely full at the later service, with well over 130 people. Flyers were delivered to over 300 homes. A 17 year old young man came to receive Christ and will be baptized next Sunday. His friend brought him to his first ever sunrise service. He used to mock the Bible and was recently released from the boys' school in Worland. He is excited and is feeling that God has something special in mind for him. God is at work and Ray feels privileged to be a part of what is happening. They plan to leave the banners up and look forward to more harvesting.

April 7, 2010 - Craig Cagle

Memorial Baptist Church , Wheatland: Sunday was wonderful, the music and worship was great.  In spite of snow and poor weather, more than 170 attended and somewhere around 100 stayed and ate BBQ and a fantastic assortment of foods.  We celebrated a Baptism, one guest (an adult man) made a Profession of Faith after the service, and other decisions were made, too.  We had a large number of guests, not sure how many came because of the invitations we passed out (1,000) or free BBQ, etc.  We had 15 children in the nursery.  It was a day of joyful celebration. 

April 7, 2010 - Doug Rumsey

Antelope Valley Baptist Church , Gillette: Our Easter services went great! We had 174 in attendance and we have two decisions for Christ. I am not able to tell you how effective the flyers where simply because we did not ask how our guests came to know about the services. We truly had a great service. We did have about 20-30 visitors on Sunday.

April 7, 2010 - Marty Rostad

Clearmont Baptist Church , Clearmont : We had a wonderful Easter week in Clearmont! Wednesday evening they served a barbeque ham dinner with potatoes, salad, & pie to the community.  Following dinner the high school honor choir presented a Cantata in the church.  We served over 100 that evening!

Sunday morning we had 117 in attendance with twin girls making a decision to follow Christ in baptism.  Several first time visitors, but all local residents!

April 7, 2010 - John Scudder

Warm Valley Baptist Church , Pavillion: We had close to 16 visitors total directly connected to A-cross Wyoming in our 2 services.  

Prayer Walk: 20

Door to Door distribution: 31

300 door hangers distributed

I never saw a commercial nor did anyone in our church

Services were great, but no public decisions.

Total attendance in the 2 morning services: 54 individuals

April 8, 2010 - Michael McKnight

First Southern Baptist Church , Lovell: They had 21 people at the service, including 3 visitors, a young woman and her son who had just moved into town, and another young person. There were 3 or 4 that they hadn't seen for awhile, and several of their regular members were out of town. They distributed 1300-1400 flyers. An 82-year-old did ¾'s of the distributing, both in Lovell and in Byron. Some folks came out and thanked him for the information as he placed them on the doors. Several members commented on seeing the commercials.

April 8, 2010 - Mark Yeatman

United Baptist Church , Riverton : 119 attended Easter service. Visitors were mostly family of members. They had a good turnout for Sunrise service too.

April 8, 2010 - Clay Alexander

Big Horn Baptist Church , Buffalo : 188 were at Sunday service with about 30 visitors. Some of these were family of members. There were 2 professions of faith. There was one negative response to the flyers - in the form of a letter. He basically did not believe salvation could come through a prayer.

April 12, 2010 - Dave Stillie

First Southern Baptist Church , Rawlins: We did the ACROSS stuff--prayer walk and flyer handout--but due to my "absentee" schedule I wasn't a part of it. We had 90 + 50 in our services with 3 first-time visitors; none responding to the flyers.

April 12, 2010 - David Largent

Kaycee Baptist Church , Kaycee: Kaycee church did not have any new visitors.  However they had a nice size crowd with family and friends of their members.  They are extremely excited with what God is doing in their church.

I spoke with Pastor Danny Davis from the Grace Mission Church in Kaycee.  They are probably community or independent Baptist.  Their church has been in Kaycee a long time.  He said they did not have any first time visitors however their 2 services had a total of about 85 people.  He was really pleased to have been a part of Across Wyoming and thought the cooperation between the 2 churches was wonderful.  In Kaycee that is a huge mile stone to work together in God's Kingdom. 

April 12, 2010 - Mark & Cathy Largent

Faith Community Church , Gillette : Faith had a wonderful Easter Sunday.  We had our largest Easter ever and maxed out our service.  I believe we had 2 families that were there from receiving the door hangers.  We felt like at the very least the door hangers reminded a lot of our members to attend church.

As we went around our community and passed out the door hangers people were very pleasant and wanted to visit.  Many are going through hardships due to our economic times.  It was good to hear what their needs were. 

Anita (women in charge of Across Wyoming for us) did a wonderful job.  God had so burdened her heart for the lost she was waking up at night in tears.  She would wake and pray for the invitation to be received. 

April 12, 2010 - Harold & Barbara Lunsford

Wamsutter Baptist Church : We normally have between 25-30 on Sunday, God blessed us with 56. Howard Daniel preached, we had great music, even had a choir and special music.  It was a very moving service. There was a lot of tears, but no one came forward. We put out over 275 flyers and had about 15 visitors. We thought we would have had more, but are thankful for the 56.

April 12, 2010 - College Heights Baptist Church : 162 attended Sonrise service, with breakfast afterwards. The morning worship service was at the Natrona County High school auditorium with 390 people. (Palm Sunday was our highest ever attendance up until Easter with 388. Some of our flyers were distributed early by a mission team from Oklahoma and the rest on a Sunday afternoon, so we think they may have had an influence on increased participation in the couple weeks before Easter). Many first time visitors and many who haven't been there for awhile came, along with family members. There were 2 decisions.

April 15, 2010 - Robert Johnston

Superior Baptist Church , Superior : The door hanger bags with brochures were distributed to every home in Superior . While response was not great on Easter--seeds have been planted and a future harvest is still hoped for.

April 15, 2010 - Maury Young

River of Life Baptist Church , Cokeville: The church enjoyed a high attendance of 33 on Easter Sunday morning with 2 making professions of faith.

April 15, 2010 - Elwood Stewart

New Hope Baptist Church , Rock Springs : Easter Sunday saw 18 new prospects and 1 profession of faith.

April 15, 2010 - Ed Bryan

Fellowship Baptist Church , La Barge: Standing room only on Easter Sunday. Praise God for a FULL house, with 18 new guests as a part of the service.

April 15, 2010 - Shawn Moody

Bridger Valley Baptist Church , Lyman: The church celebrated Easter with 2 baby dedications followed by 2 baptisms. The church reports 3 professions of faith at the conclusion of Easter worship and anticipates future decisions as a result of their efforts in "Find It Here"/ A-CROSS WYOMING .

April 15, 2010 - Gary Williams

Westside Baptist Church , Gillette: We had a combined attendance on Easter Sunday of 322 (8:00 and 10:45 service).  We did not plan very well as far as seeing who had received the A-Cross Wyoming literature, so we don't know for sure.  I did visit a lady yesterday that attended 4/11 that had received the info.  Also we had a lady that is 92 years of age attend Easter Sunday and the Sunday prior.  The Tuesday after Easter she came in to visit with me and she trusted Christ.  This Sunday 18th we are going to celebrate as we baptize this 'young lady'.  Together for His Glory!

April 21, 2010 - Scott & Tami Thompson