Dr Don McInyre brought old time religion to Christ
Church UM during the Evangelism Event of 2007. I'm
sorry to say that turnout for the event was truly
wanting.  Thursday night's event started with a musical
presentation by Josh Oldaker, a young
country/western style singer.  He gave a great
rendition of the Lords Prayer, followed by a number of
country gospel type songs.  

Friday night started with music by Mountain Fury. An instrumental group
of three talented young ladies and one young man. Mandolin, fiddle,
auto-harp and guitar music filled the sanctuary.

Saturday's service was opened by the Christ Church Choir followed by
individual performances by Jill Cooper and Eric Skidmore.

The Evangelism Event was turned into a Mission event on Sunday
morning. The service began once again with the Christ Church choir.

Dr McIntyre told the congregation about his life experiences as a
Teacher Missionary in India and Africa.  He brought samples of art
work he has collected on his many missions.

The congregation was shocked as Dr McInyre described the sacrifice of
a baby by a group of African devil worshipers and contrasted that with
the American sacrifice of thousands of babies by the abortion doctors
and women who use their so called right to choose.  He second shocking
proclamation came when he told about the Muslim's killing Christians in
Africa and how it is their goal to wipe out Christianity. And that if
American Christians didn't get their head out of the sand (TV etc.) their
right to worship would disappear within 15 years. Muslims  claim Islam is
the only true religion and if we do not convert they will kill us.

There has been a lot of discussion about Dr McIntyre's in your face
presentation at the Mission event. His message that true faith starts and
ends with Christ's sacrifice on the cross got lost in his rant about the
type of clothes one should wear to church and his pointed attack on
member's of the congregation for not testifying loudly every chance
they get in church or on the street. Some member's were put off by his
insistence that every single person in the church state aloud, what God
had done for them. But, buried in the controversy was a great message
about the power of God and the necessity of being born again to gain
admittance to heaven when one is called home to God.