David: I'm here with Tim Berends at Chick Publications.
He gets out 300 tracts a day, over in Las Vegas on the bridge--
the bridges.
And in so doing, he doesn't stop there.
He also goes around the world with his friend, Mike Cahill the pilot.
"Pilot Mike," we like to call him.
I want to ask him about Halloween.
So Tim, tell me: what is it about Halloween?
Why should we get out tracts on Halloween?
Why is that important?
Tim Berends: There is no other day in the year,
when the little mission fields come to your door.
That is so important.
And I don't have a problem with given them a little food,
a little sweet something to eat, then to give them
one of the Chick tracts-- the Halloween Chick tracts
when they're coming.
And they love them!
They just absolutely love them!
You want to have that when they come to your door.
I don't know, with this pandemic, how many will be
coming to your door, but just have something ready.
I've heard of Christians that shut off their lights.
But don't do that.
Be there with the tracts.
The younger they are, many times the easier they are
to reach with the gospel.
So remember that.
David: Also, the very fact is-- the fact we are moving
toward Halloween means we need to be praying for souls.
Tim: Absolutely.
David: And God is faithful.
He can provide us souls.
If we are praying for them, and asking God to provide them,
He will bring them.
And He also wants us to go out to them, too.
Tim: That's right, right.
David: Even today, at lunch, what happened at lunch?
How did you --? He doesn't just sit there.
When Debbie and I and he are having some lunch together,
he doesn't stop there.
He has a supply of tracts.
Tell what happened today.
Tim: Well, one thing is, I thanked the waitress,
"Thank you so much for that wonderful meal.
Make sure you thank the cooks.
And how many people work in the kitchen?"
Server: "Well, we have about 12."
Tim: "Well, here's something for each of them.
There's 12 free films on the back-- 'Fully Free Films' on the back.
They're family-friendly, And you'll enjoy reading that
and watching those movies.
Thank you so much!"
And if the waitress is good, I had a good waitress,
"Is your boss available?
Could I speak to your boss?"
And the boss comes.
"I think the waitress that we just had was outstanding.
Now she's not my daughter, I'm not married to her,
but I just wanted to put a plug in for her.
Thank you so much."
And then I give the boss a tract.
Then as I'm walking out, I'll hand out tracts to people
at the tables.
And I'll say, "Family friendly movies for you
on the back," and "A gift for your family."
And if someone is looks depressed, "A free movie on suicide.
If you know of anybody who's suicidal,
this is for them."
David: You see, Tim makes custom tracts.
Anybody can do that.
On his custom tracts he adds those Fully Free Films
on the back.
So he adds that, in addition to giving out the tract.
The key, though, is that he continually gives it out.
He does not stop.
He is right in the middle.
And Jack used to do that.
Sometimes we'd to be sitting over there at Chick Fil-A.
And Jack and I would be eating lunch
and he'd say, "Just a second."
He'd go up and he'd walk over, and say,
"Why don't you read this?"
And "Be sure you read that last page.
It's very, very important.
It'll help you think about where you will spend eternity."
And he'd hand it out, even when he was 89, 90 years old.
He kept on doing that.
Tim: Wow, that's great.
If you're ever on a plane-- I learned this from Mike Cahil--
go up to the pilots and say, "Thank you so much
for the safe flight.
And here is some good reading for you."
Because they are so used to people criticizing them.
And I also give it to the flight attendants,
and to the people walking off the plane.
I usually don't do it going in, because I don't want them
kicking me off the plane.
But as people are going off: "Have a great day.
Thank you so much for flying with me.
And here's some good reading for you."
And I learned this from Chick Publications.
When you hand a tract to a teenager,
you hold the tract in front of them, you look both ways,
and you say, "Don't let the cops catch you
reading this."
No teenager is gonna turn you down.
David: So if a person says, "Yeah, but
Halloween is of the devil.
I don't want to participate in that," what would you say
to that person?
Tim: Well, that's why you're giving them the tract.
They're part of the devil right now.
They're part of Satan's world right now.
And that tract can set them free.
Jesus told us "Go ye into the world and preach the gospel
to every creature" (Mark 16:15).
You're having the world come to you, come to your house!
Don't shut off the light and watch TBN.
Turn on the light and give them a candy bar
and a gospel tract.
But get involved in doing something.
I was almost killed in a bomb factory explosion
in Greenwich Village, March 6, 1970.
A huge chunk of cement zipped by my head.
And the Lord spoke to me, not audibly, but in here (my heart).
He says, "You either come back now,
or you don't come back at all."
And when I got my life turned around,
I got into radio-- God opened the door for me
to get into radio.
But as far as ministry, I thought, "My dad had nine years
of college and seminary.
I can't do that.
But I can hand out tracts.
I can approach people."
And that's what I do.
I've been doing it for a half a century now,
and I don't regret it.
David: Thank you very much.