My oldest son is Will.
God has given Will the gift of evangelism.
God's message is important all the time,
and it's even more important in times of death.
The truth is everyone's going to die.
This pandemic has not increased the mortality rate.
We all want to live to an old age,
but we're not guaranteed that.
I mean, it could be a car accident,
it could be a heart attack, it could be COVID.
That's why we don't wait.
I want to point them to Jesus Christ.
Because of this pandemic, the message of hope
and the Gospel of Jesus Christ is more crucial now
than ever before.
We don't want to sit on the sidelines.
Matter of fact, we want to be the answer
to the problem that's going on.
This has been one of the biggest problems in the whole world,
is this pandemic.
So we're all going to toward it.
So here in Tifton, we're doing something a little different.
The state's opening up a little bit.
The churches are allowed to have a few more people in them.
We're going to have some people in the audience.
But the majority of our audience is still going to be online.
To us it's a both/and.
we want to work in communities to reach people
in their community.
And that's what I've been praying this whole trip.
God, help me to communicate clearly to both audiences--
those people in the room and those thousands
of people that are going to be watching online
from all around the world.
So Lord, prepare their heart to hear the message.
Help us to point people to Jesus tonight.
Set three.
One.
And dissolve three.
Go.
Well, hello and welcome.
My name is Tanya Lyon and I'm joined by Will Graham.
We're so excited that we could be a part of this
and to come down.
And we want to welcome all those who
are watching online as well.
[MUSIC - RHETT WALKER, "COME TO THE RIVER"]
(SINGING) You say come to the river.
Drink from the cup I pour.
If I could sum up 2020, the last 12
months that we've gone through, what's
the one word I would choose?
It'd be the word "fear."
Even when we don't understand, we trust You.
We praise Your name.
During this COVID time, there's been
a lot of people calling out in their distress.
And God's been answering and saying,
let Me come into your life and show you what I can do.
[MUSIC - AARON SHUST, "MY SAVIOR MY GOD"]
(SINGING) My savior loves, my savior lives, my savior's
always there for me.
My God He was, my God He is, my God He's always gonna be.
Peace only comes from one place, and that's Jesus.
The greatest need of all of mankind is the same.
It's peace with God.
My friends, listen.
Peace is rare.
Because the world cannot produce any type of peace.
You can't find it here on this earth.
That's why Jesus came 2,000 years ago, was to bring
peace between both God and man.
Just the words that Will was saying hit me hard.
It was just unbelievable from the beginning.
There's been a lot of fear in my heart.
And he touched on that in talking about peace.
That really was something very important for me.
If you want to make a decision to follow Christ and give over
your anxiety, to give over your troubles, to give over
your sin, if you want Jesus to come into your life
to forgive your sin, I'm going to ask you to come and stand
right down here.
I'm just going have a word of prayer with you.
You get to see God's work personally, right there.
It's awesome.
It's hard to get out of your seat
and be vulnerable and go up to the front.
And I just felt like that was an important step for me tonight.
I didn't even look at him.
I was just like, I'm going.
[LAUGHS] And then the next thing I know, he's behind me,
grabbing my hand.
Outside of the crowd we had here in Tifton tonight,
we know there were thousands of folks joining us online.
It was so wonderful to see the tens of thousands people
watching online.
And even over a thousand decisions for Jesus Christ.
Say dear Lord Jesus.
Dear Lord Jesus.
I am a sinner.
I turn away from my sins.
If you're online, there'll be a button that said, yes, I
want to receive Jesus Christ.
If you just made that decision, you're a new person in Christ.
You got a new beginning going ahead.
[APPLAUSE]
During this COVID time, there's been
a lot of people calling out in their distress,
because people are looking for answers.
And it's Jesus.