Project 180 outreach

For the past several months an outreach operation has been in place across the nation and in Canada to get a powerful Christian documentary by Living Waters into the hands of college students.  The DVD, known as Project 180, has been viewed over 1 million times since its release earlier this month and now has been placed into the hands of close to 200,000 individuals.

I was blessed to be one of the team leaders for two campuses:  Elizabeth City State University and Old Dominion University.  Since the campuses are an hour apart from each other, I asked a brother in Christ and fellow Ambassador's Academy graduate Chris Jones to be my point of contact on the ODU campus while I was at ECSU.

We needed to keep this outreach under wraps so its opponents would not have the opportunity to block our efforts.  Over the months I recruited a few trusted brothers in Christ to help.  Several weeks before the outreach,  I took a small recon team to ODU to scope out good locations to hand out the DVD's.  We encountered no opposition and passed out several hundred tracts in the process.  Before I knew it, the day had arrived.

With both teams fully stocked with DVD's, it was time to put the plan into action.

I started out with a team heading to the campus of ECSU in Elizabeth City, NC @ 8 am with 1000 DVD's.  The team included myself, my 6 year old son Ephraim as well as two fellow brothers Kyle and Roland.  I had packed two bags with the DVD's and used a cart to carry the rest of the boxes.  After praying, we split up on campus with my son and I taking station near the Student Center.  

Within a few hours we had handed out the first 200 and were already three quarters of the way through the next box.  The campus slowly came to life and we almost couldn't keep up with the number of students.  My son was a great help as he darted back and forth trying to beat me in the number he could hand out.  Around 11am I was approached by campus security who soon directed me to an office to get permission to continue.  I had spoke with Michael Marcavage of "Repent America" beforehand and found out that there is a law in NC and VA that prohibits us from remaining on campus once we are asked to leave.  The loophole though is that as long as a organization sponsors us, we can stay there.  While it took over an hour to get a signature from a sponsoring group on campus, it did open doors to future on-campus ministry through this group.  

We soon continued handing out the DVD's.  Some students approached us after watching it saying it was powerful and encouraged others to watch it immediately.  By 1:30 pm we had covered the entire campus with almost every student now telling us they already had a copy.  Here is the testimonial from one of the guys on that team:

"Truth be told I was trying to "get out" of going Tuesday to the college. I had all kinds of scary scenarios dancing in my head. Eating breakfast I remember saying : what will this day bring? Once there I realized this was a "covert military action" and all the students were still asleep. First person walks by... "good morning, did you get one of these ?" Some would ask: what's it about ? I was cool as a cucumber.."It's a historical Documentary about how history repeats itself." Oh OK, thanks ! I got too close to a Frat house one time, they told me to "move along"... Then Adam got nabbed so we had to stop. Went to work later with a new joy. Guys at work wanted to know where I had been.. so we had a good conversations for the whole afternoon. It was a good day!"-Kyle Mengel, ECSU team

This was the first time Kyle had ever done anything like this.  I have invited out for our outreaches before and was thrilled when he finally agreed to come.  I believe this was a first huge step for him to fully engage in boldly, biblically sharing the Gospel.

Chris Jones rallied the ODU team together and hit the campus with 4000 DVD's at 9am.  I received calls from the during the morning updating me ont heir progress.  They faced absolutely no opposition and even handed the DVD to passing security and professors.  They had several great 1-2-1 encounters and finished the day around 3pm with 3200 DVD's handed out.  Some of them wanted to continue handing them out and went to the Norfolk State University campus where they gave away an additional 600 DVD's.  I was later told that a rumor had spread on the ODU campus earlier that the DVD contained a virus.  This had gotten to the NSU campus and some students were asking about such.  This was an apparent attempt by the enemy after they had caught on to what we were doing.

The reports from the other teams flooded in later in the day and, even now we are hearing news of how the DVD has impacted people.  If you have yet to watch it for yourself, please visit www.180movie.com and do so.

Thanks for stopping by!

To God be the glory,

Adam