Wednesday, November 19, 2014

In the News ... "Praying around the oil patch"

OA Photo by Mark Sterkel
• Oil show Bible event dovetails into latest mission of minister

By Lyndsay Weaver, Reporter
Odessa American


ODESSA, TEXAS - Demand is high in the Permian Basin ... Demand for oilfield hands. Demand for drivers. Demand for housing. Demand to staff restaurants, businesses and schools to keep up with the oil boom that’s brought in thousands to work and created wealth like no one has seen in decades.

What’s been overlooked in the booms and busts of Midland/Odessa — until this year — is the demand for God.

For the first time in the decades of the Permian Basin International Oil Show, Christians embarked on spreading the gospel to the locals and the world travelers who came to Odessa. They gave out 7,000 Bibles and more than 200 men said they would commit their lives to Christ ...

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