Written by: Peter Wooding
Article source: evangelicalfocus.com
A US-based group of Christian BMXers and Skateboarders is seeing an increasing impact on their evangelistic work not just in the States but across the Globe.
Recently the Action Sports Outreach team was at the Festival Manchester mission event in the North of England to put on their demos and share their faith.
BMX evangelist with the ministry John Andrus explains more about how their outreach works: “The reason we like to use action sports is because it draws attention. It’s exciting and everybody wants to see it because it’s dangerous. We have top guys from all over the world that are riding the ramps, doing some of the craziest stunts possible. And after the stunts we share Jesus”.
Action Sports Outreach Founder Vic Murphy is extremely well-known in the BMX world, which is why he uses this platform to share his testimony: “I was a pro BMX rider for a long time and was in the BMX industry and in that culture and the magazine, videos and TV stuff with BMX. And so we have a story how God can take anybody no matter where they’re at and save them and use them”.
He adds: “We’ve been to prisons and villages and cities and anything you can think of and sharing the Gospel that you can have peace with God through Jesus and the response is God but again God is the one to do the work”.
Action Sports Outreach has now seen many young people respond to the Gospel as they’ve ministered in 45 countries around the world.
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Date published: 24/08/2022
Feature image: A BMXer at the Manchester Festival outreach in 2022. / Image GNA
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